G'day

Weather was forecast to blow pretty hard yesterday, so we decided to hit the sound. 

Got the the ramp about lunch time, and while we were standing in the carpark the wind was whipping pretty fast. Spoke to one bloke, who was rinsing down his 6m glass boat, who told us 'don't bother boys, it's rough as guts out there and nobody has caught a thing". Lovely we thought, as we had a 4m tinny! We launched anyway, odd thing was we got out in the sound, and it was glorious, hardly any wind, and minimal chop.

Marked some fish pretty quickly, and had a few drops, fish just weren't feeding yet. So we booted it and got some squid, and came back to our marks at about 4pm and got the burley going. 

I hit the first Pinky, with this 67cm model falling prey to a lightly weighted herring fillet - 

Not the be outdone, my mate Clayton nailed a slightly smaller pinky, happy days! - 

The sun then set and it went off. We managed 7 fish between us, Clayton pipped me in the end with 4 and I got 3. Kept 4 for a feed and released the other 3. Fish ranged from 60cm - 90cm. The two biggest fish were released as we already had our bag. I also caught a 'short body' Pink snapper. Was a 55cm fish, but had a shortened spine, by the looks of the height and girth of the fish it should have been up around the 75cm mark if it wasn't deformed. Photos stink, iPhones don't like taking pics in the dark.

Clayton with another nice fish, I think this one was up around the high 80's.

and another.

'short body' pink snapper.

Cheers, 

Alex