Headed out yesterday in the hunt for some decent size fish without a hint of bait on board.This is new to me but my best mate dirt has been having quite a bit of success on the old jig. Hes been trying to talk me into getting into it for atleast 12mths now but Ive found it hard to get my mind around going that far out and not having any bait to drop down.Well I bit the bullet,left the heavy bottom bouncing gear at home and loaded the small bag of jigs and the light gear into the boat.Could have been mistaken for heading out for a bream fish with the gear we had.Dirt had the go gear,saltiga 4000 matched up to the saltiga rod and I was armed with the big fishing wa 2-4kg soft placky rod mached up to the big daiwa freems 3000.Now ive seen dirt catch a heap of fish with the jigs but usually there has been bait down as well so this is a bit new even to him but with the belief that if we can find the fish they will nail the jigs we were confident.We headed out from dawsville cut as the sun came up and our first impressions were it was going to be fairly flat all day.Slight NE wind as the forecast said,overcast almost stormy sky set the scene for a pretty picture as the sun came up.As we got out to the 10mile mark it started to get messy.Cruising on 18-22 knots it took a good hr and a half to reach our first spot,opprox 31nm out.This was our first drop ever on my boat baitless. I was using pirate jigs,dirt the flutter type.Well the pirate work well, my first fish being a foul hooked seargent baker about 6in long.Now that takes some skill.Next drift (dirt still laughing at my first fish on jig) I boated a nice size black ass.Yahoo my first keeper.By this stage dirt is nolonger laughing as he hasnt had a touch.Next drift dirt gets in on the action with a wrass.As he releases his fish something smashed my jig, and after a small fight snapped me off.Not sure why, I thought the 12lb braid I was using should have been able to stop anything.(HA&nbsp;HA)A couple of drifts later we decided to head out further to my man dhu ground.We tried about 6 of my top spots for not even a sniff.By this time you start to think about the one that got away,the one that took my pirate jig at the first spot,thinking that may be all she wrote.By this stage the wind had all but dropped off.It was perfect out there ,had the ocean to ourselves,no another boat in site,infact didnt see another boat all,except for the cray boat working the grounds we were on.With no fish on my spots we decided to go and see what ground&nbsp;the craypots were on.After a sound around,some small clumps of fish,we decided to do a couple of drifts passed a couple of pots, all to no avail.We moved a couple hundred of metres and found a group of 4 pots in 60m arc.The sounder lit up,as did our eyes.We spun the boat around with anticipation,set&nbsp;our drift,and dropped down.BANG we were both on.BLOODY&nbsp;CUTTLEFISH.Big ones to,approx&nbsp;5 of&nbsp;6 kg.We looked at each other, in utter disapointment.We decided to go back around and have another drift and BANG. On again, but these were no cuttlies.We called them for sombos first just because of the sheer volume of them on the sounder from&nbsp;1.5m&nbsp;up to 6m off<img title="" class="imagecache-forum_preview" alt="" src="http://fishwrecked.com/files/imagecache/forum_preview/meersy/Dhuie on JIgs 16.06.12 503.JPG" /> the bottom.Well we were wrong.Dirt landed his biggest ever man dhu ,we guessed at about 20kg and I landed my first dhu on a jig,about 8kg.After the high fives and the shouting and the debate weather to keep the big boy or the smaller one died down we spun the boat around.Got over the drift ,the sounder lit up again and Bang, another double hookup.Dirt landed another horse dhu and I had another bust off.Remember im only using my small soft plastics gear.We couldnt believe our luck.What a spot.Dirt was done.He was happy with his effort.Well I Wasnt happy with mine . I wanted another go.&nbsp;I also took by barra bustin combo just incase I got spooled or something so I decided to go around for one more drift.Dirt monuvered the boat back around and the fish were still there.I quickly tied the flutter jig on(upside down I might add) and dropped over.Didnt even get to the bottom before it got smashed.I was running 20lb braid on the combo so i was a bit more confident of landing a bigger fish,Up comes another 8kg Dhu.With the time getting on a bit,and our satisfaction filled we decided to call it a day.The trip back in was mint for the first 5 nm.But then the sea got crazy,2m breaking Northerlies mixed with a 2m swell was nasty.Slowed us down to 16kn but we couldnt care less.We were stocked with our effort.Im now on the hunt for a new combo, a demersal jigging combo.Cant see me wasting my money on bait again.</p>

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