Just a quick note on our trip out Friday evening, deckie got to the ramp around 7.00 and the boat was ready to go. Nice flat trip out, and pulled up on some interesting ground on the sounder. Not much happening other than the normal pests, so moved 50m over on to a nice lump. Sounder was lighting up nicely, but again we were getting hammered by the pests. I decided to have a quick leak over the side, and at that exact moment off goes my reel. Quick stop mid stream, hasty exchange of rods, and reeled in the best pinkie of the night, but only around 40cm. Healthy looking fish, hopefully I can meet him again next year. The only keeper for the night was a nice tailor that took half a scalie off the bottom.

Decky caught about 20 snook, he couldn't get past the buggers. Last drop of the night had my heavy gear nicely loaded up, but couldn't manage to stop it. It didn't feel like a ray normally does, but in reality it most likely was. Had pictures of sharks & big sambos running through my head. Still, good to put a bend in the rod, and good to know my knots held up. Eventually the braid snapped which was dissapointing, supposed to be 40lb but I wasn't really trying to put any hurt on it.

Wind started to come up a bit around 10, so headed back to the ramp not long after.

Sorry no pics of massive snappers or dhuies, maybe one day.

Cheers,

BD.