No kids, a Striper, not a stripper! Anyhow, Monday lead to MightyMouse, his FIL Con, pal Aaron and myself all heading up to Cervantes in convoy: The work truck and van, and the Carl's Seaswirl Striper 2601. Nice drive on the new road, most of the traffic going the other way after sucking up a week or so of the usual Jurien windy xmas holiday weather. Occasional local Andy gave us a few quick tips on the launch site, remembering to round the post and then loaned us a genny. We then took the boat down and set up camp, just in time for BBQ dinner. I'd like to make sure that you all know we ate meat AND vegetables on the trip, and not just fried onion either! We launched the boat and left it moored, with a fore and aft anchor because the tides really weren't going to be ideal the next day.

The next day, I woke to find that we didn't quite have enough water under the boat to float it out, but a combination of weight movement, rocking and the anchor winch got us over the edge of the dropoff. We had a quick breakky and waved bye to Con and headed out for some fish! Can't get away from the fish there! We headed North to the 30m mark and sounded out some ground and I think that Aaron, Carl and I had landed 5 dhufish in two drops! Aaron got his first legal dhu on plastic, and next couple of drifts I was busy getting a quick tour of the boat!

That turned up my 10kg specimen. He came up on a 7Seas Hooker, in a lumo/white/holo pattern.

Next Carl was getting some good whacks on his Pirate and this is the result! We guessed the fish at 10kg, but it came up in such good nick, we took a quick pic and then we released him. We might come visiting when he puts on another 10kg.

We were worried that we were just going to get dhufish all day, but we had a few of the usual suspects on jig also; Sambos, Sgt bakers, later some small pinks and finally a few Baldies.

The bite really tapered off in the arvo, so I had a dive, Aaron and Carl having a doze on the boat. Not much love there in 10-15m, crays are long gone and there were just a few small kackers. After that, I got my light outfit out. After dragging 450g jigs around in 300m, just 70g jigs in 30m of water was just like a holiday!

And the results;

We headed back in, cleaned the catch and the boat, and then time for another fry-up! Day 2 we went back out to the 30m mark, Aaron picked up a nice dhufish on bait, and then we pushed out to the FADs. There were a lot of fish out there on the Southern Fad, but the bit was a little slow. We caught one fish going 820mm on a 5". We tried a few more spots on the way back in to Jurien, just managed a few small pinks and a large sambos. Con drove the truck up and we retrieved at the ramp, no sweat! I ran into Whitey at the wharf, we had a little chat about what they had been onto all day - including a forum member bagging a +20kg YTK! All in all, a top trip thanks to MightyMouse for organising it and ta to Andy for the genny and a few tips on that launch!