Headed out last sunday with my girlfriend and brocko for a fish around S/W bank bit of a slow day with only four keepers but was great to see my girlfrind Darlene land a nice 5-6 kilo duhie a new PB for her. She had caught a few smaller just sized duhies before but certainly knew about it when she hooked onto this one fought it well on her daiwa saltist and when the duhie hit the surface it was high fives all round. Rest of the morning was slow with only a small shark landed. Was freezing till about 1030 until the cold easterly stopped blowing then it was like a pond no wind no drift just a bit of swell. Decided to go to a spot we'd got a baldchin driftbaiting a few months ago. I put on the driftbait rig and Darlene and Brock continued with the bottom rig. Brok got a niced sized snapper then few minutes later I had some intrest on the drift bait I put the reel in free spool with my thumb on the spool so I could give it some line then bang I was on To a big one. I was struggling to thumb the spool while I put the daiwa into gear then it was on what a fight i could feel it powering down trying to get to the bottom whith some big head shakes I called it for a sambo at the start but after a few big runs it slowed down heaps and i called it for a big duhie as it had given up and apart from a slight pull it felt more like the heavy weight of a duhie. When we saw colour I was a tiny bit dissapointed it wasnt my 10kg+ duhie but when it hit the surface i was over the moon about how big this snapper was it meausered 89cm and weighed 8-9 kg on my dodgy scales. Had a few more drifts and the drift baiting was getting more attention than the  bottom rigs but unfortunattely couldnt set the hooks on the other big runs I had. I had one run were I had full weight of the fish for a few turns of the handle and then the fish must of spat it wound it in and the scalie was pretty much untouched was deefinately a fish as there were huge head shakes but just couldnt set the hooks I thought it might of been a duhie sucking the bait. Dropped it back down got aNother hit same again fought with it for a while and then the hooks came free. Does anyone have any tips for hook types or techniques off setting  the hooks on a fish while driftbaiting. Looking at getting out there Saturday to try more drift baiting much more effective way of hookig the big ones. Darlene is a bit pissed off she cant come Saturday but I told her if she really wants to go I will have to take her out sunday DAMM FISHING TWO DAYS IN A ROW