With the weather looking good for a spot of fishing on the weekend, Bads Jarrad and myself decided to go up to Cervantes to test out some new gear we had all got the previous week. After a big night on friday we awoke early with fuzzy heads to make the trip up there.

With the boat in the drink at 7:00am we headed straight out to the Sambo hole to see if we could jig up a couple. After seeing a few fish on the sounder, but them not taking anything we swapped to bait and could only manage an undersize Dhuie. After a while Bads made the call to move and we headed over to some new ground we had never been in my boat before. With no real spots we sounded out some likely looking ground in 38m and had a drift over. After a fair few little pickers Jarrad came up solid on a nice fish on his new outfit.

Out of the depths came a Dhuie - a new PB for Jarrad and on his new gear to boot! (Tuff Tackle 12000)

Not long after Jarrad landed his Dhuie i started to get some decent bites, letting out line....... letting out line........BANG! i had connected with a nice Baldy - great way to christen the new rod and reel.

With a couple of nice fish we then started heading home, when we reached the back of the reefs we saw heaps of birds and massive bait balls everywhere. So out come the twistys and we started casting to the bustups of tuna everywhere after not being able to get any strikes Bads hooked up to a monster that started peeling line off at a rapid rate of knots! It wasn't to be however as the fish spat the lure.

After all that commotion we then headed back in.

The next morning not looking quite as good as saturday we headed straight back out to the sambo hole but there was nothing out there. On the way out we had passed heaps of bait balls but no tuna so we chucked the lures out the back and had a troll around. After 10mins of trolling around the bait, Bads Stella 5000SW screamed! he was hooked up solid and this fish was running hard. After about 5mins he had the Striped Tuna boatside ready for the gaff.

Out went the spread again and no more than another 5mins later my reel screamed into life and i was onto a ripper. After a lot of jumping over eskies and tackle boxes i had the Longtail Tuna boatside for the gaff. Got him on my 2010 Saltiga 4500 (awesome reel!)

With both me and Bads with a fish but not Jarrad he was next in line for a crack. So i reset the spread and as soon as i put my reel into the rod holder it was hit by a bit better fish than the others. Once Jarrad picked up the reel, and i grabbed the teaser out of the water the other lure got hit as well. With the guys onto the fish i cleared the spread. Bads got his tuna in quickly with another nice longtail in the esky. Jarrads tuna was taking line off the Saltiga with ease! Once he got it boatside we realised just how much larger it actually was.

With a couple of nice Tuna in the esky for some sashimi on the beach and steaks for tea we headed in and off to the pub for a pint to celebrate.

All in all a great weekend with the gear getting a little test out and a couple of PB's

Cheers

Chris

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