Last Saturday the easterly was howling so decided to head in close behind Garden Island to escape the sharp chop. We were anchored only a couple hundred metres off the back of the island hoping for some Skippy and maybe a sneaky snapper. After a bit of burley and a couple of wrasse my brother hooks up to something quite a bit heavier on a 5inch plastic and 10lb braid. After a bit of a tussle we get a flash of purple from under the boat and up pops a very nice dhuie in 13m of water! Cody with his very first dhu.

Forecast for Sunday was a bit blowy in the morning but calming off in the arvo so after a bit of a sleep-in I looked outside to see it wasn't windy at all so I made the call to head out asap. Launched at point Peron and set a course to a spot in the 30s. Heading over the five fathom I knew we just had to have a drift after the success we had the day before from even closer in. Set up a drift on the west side of the bank and second drop Cody's on something decent again on the light gear and 5inch placcie. Pretty happy to get a pinkie first drift and so late in the morning. Cody stoked to get his first size pinkie and first dhu from the day before.

Set up the drift again and on the exact spot Cody hooked the pinkie he hooks up heavy again. This is what was showing on the sounder..

This is what popped up

On the way back to setting up the drift I marked a couple more spots that had good showings of fish..

We drifted over a stretch of about 50m of the back edge of the bank all day and this is what was popping up. 5inch plastics getting most of the fish but bait snaring the table quality fish.

Seriously bloody good day inshore with most of the fish getting nabbed between 10 and 2pm and glassed off nicely for a ten minute ride back to the ramp to sort out the catch..