Up at 0630 and took the 2 minute drive down to the boat ramp. Filled up the eskies from the free ice machine. After Claire finding out the hard way the ramp was slippery, we headed off.  Gentle eastly blowing as we headed out under the the wharf.  We first headed over to the west side of Connexion Island, and had a hunt around for some ground.  Sounder was starting to light up.

The current is pretty strong around the islands, but we opted to try a few drifts over this flare up on the sounder. First drop we both hooked up to what i think are some kind of sea perch (anyone knows tell me cheers)

We drifted over this mark three times, and each time Claire and i both hooked up..very fishy!

We then headed off as we didnt want to rape that spot, and headed over to the east side of Connexion Island. We have been told by the locals, if you cant catch a Tricky snapper (blue lined emperor) in the channel, you might as well give up fishing. Well they were not wrong, they are in plague proportions in there. There was alot of small ones arond 30cm, and we kept a few around the 40cm mark for tea.

There was plenty of birds working, so we decided to throw the lures out for a bit of a troll around. We didnt have much luck there so i decided do some popping over the shallow reefs around the island. Had a few chases but no hookups. I saw a Barracuda around 150cm chase my popper to the boat, i near on shit myself when i saw it. I was also wondering how long it would take to spool me.

It was near on lunch time and the Heat was kicking in, and we decided we had a great day and headed home. We learnt on our first trip out, that coral is bloody sharp, and shite did we lose some rigs.