G'day

Quick report from the bank. Me and a mate headed out to the FFB on saturday morning, left in pitch black in the hoped of getting some snapper. We got into some snapper, but unfortunately they were a bit undersize, around the 40cm mark, so they all lived to fight another day and of course there were a few wrasse mixed in with the snapper.  We moved spots, and found a nice sandy patch in 28-30m of water on the western edge of the bank. Managed about a dozen of the fattest whiting I've ever seen in a long time, which was nice. Mixed in with them were a lot of small flathead. You could tell when you were drifting off the patch, as the whiting were thick in the centre of the patch, and as soon as you'd start drifting off the ground the flathead would come on, and they were THICK. I was running a patternoster with two long shanks, and got a triple header flathead, 2 flathead on the one longshank! Was good for a giggle. Started raining pretty hard so we decided to start making our way back in, stopped in the sound for a quick fish, first hook up my mate hooks onto something pretty weighty, that didn't do a whole heap. As it came to the surface we both thought it was a gummy, nice, so we thought! was a big dirty norwest blowy! he had one of his filthy mates hanging around with him too.

All in all, was a good day on the water, no big snapper. But a nice feed of whiting is always nice.

Whiting for lunch today... if the boat stays in the driveway!

Cheers,

Alex