G'day guys. 

Got out with Saltwater Charters yesterday for Craigo's first day off perth in 6 months. Helping out with some of the deckie duties for the day, it was an early start and with a few squalls coming through as we were launching put doubts in my head for the day. Anyway we pushed through and with everyone on board we managed to leave around 5:45 from Hillarys. We didn't find any fish in shallow and put it down to the high swell, so we pushed on to deepr water. 

We hit up the 80m mark for a looksee and before long, rods where doubled over and drags where screaming! Davo managed this nice pink on jig

Scotty called his first hookup for a sambo pretty early on

Then about 15 minutes later he played down his next hookup for a sambo and was quite impressed when this big fella popped up! 

I personally got a couple of hookups but pulled hooks a few too many times. sadface. 

We decided to leave the pinks alone and come in a bit shallower to find a dhubang or 6. A couple of drifts and the Craigo hooks up bigtime up the front on light gear - his daughters pink okuma rod to be exact! This fish took a Zman 7" Pearl Shadz.

As soon as the fish came over the side, I whacked on a McCarthy 7" Bullhead minnow in Baby Elf. First drop with it, didn't even need to give it a lift, wound up the slack and FISH ON! I quickly pulled the hook and was devistated, so I freespooled back to the bottom and BANG! the fish came back and this guy wasn't getting away anytime soon! Nice fight in 55m and up he pops 15m away from the boat. A PB for me, guessed on the boat at 8kg, but I am lead to beleive it is probably well over 10kg. Was a very fat fish. 

Two bonza dhubangs in about 5 minutes, Cheers and high fives going around the boat. 

Vlad saw the commotion and dropped a 7" Zman Shadz down and in the meantime of us cheering at the back, he quietly managed to bring this fella in, a respectable dhuie in anyones books! Perfect eating size!

Joey had been persisting with his Pirate jig all morning in between leaning over the side and emptying his guts, burlying up for us. Shortly after despatching my fish, we hooked up bigtime! One drift, 4 BIG hookups in 10 minutes! Top spot this one!. About 20 minutes later, and being reefed 4 times and managing to turn it's head, it popped up on the surface at least 30 meters away from the boat. A small tangle with another bloke was quickly taken care of and a huge cheer went around as it came closer, gaining in size again and again. Couldn't get the net in the water far enough to net it, so had to get on the marlin board to net him. Got him up with a heave onto the deck and he was even bigger than we thought. 

Weighed in at 19kg, and 105cm on the brag mat! a definite PB! Hugs and beers for all as we worked on the 4 dhuies on the deck spiking and bleeding haha. 

Huge! We now had a very healthy esky with some of WA's best! Numerous large blackass went in the esky aswell, and all we were missing for the magic 4 was a baldie. 

Next drift and I put down the same plastic and bang, hookup! Called it for a baldie quickly and shortly after I had a 44cm Baldie on the deck and in the esky! 

Richard decided he wanted a crack with a jig, so after getting a crash course in Pirate jigs from Joey, he was down and hooked up! looks to be a verrrry big fish again, but he put too much pressure on and It went POP!. 

By this time it was around 2pm, and the call was made to start the trek back to the marina. Sloppy conditions made it hard but we got there in the end! 

Final count was

6 Dhuies between 5kg and 19kg

6 Snapper between 4kg and 7kg 

3 blackass

1 44cm baldie

1 dirty stinkin' sambo! 

Some quality fish there and a bloody good first day on the water in over 6 months! 2 Weeks to go until the ban starts, so definitely hit up Craig on facebook and get out for some of the best fishing that Perth has to offer! 

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