Went for a fish with Gully this morning and decided that it was definately not worth heading to two rocks, so we chose to go from Hillaries instead. With the wind blowing all of a 30 knots from the east, video proves this, we went squiding around little island. I picked up a couple of thumpers and ended up with 3 as a tally but the wind died off around 9 so we headed wide. We found some awesome ground which was pretty fishy, first drop was a 55cm queen snapper that gave a fair old fight to the surface. 2nd time around was a 41cm pinkie that smashed my green lumo grub, I released him as he looked pretty small.

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Things went pretty quiet for a while until Gully boated a nice 58cm dhuie. The wind then swung to the south west pretty strong and we anchored up for a while. No suprise that I caught a stingray straight up and then a dusky morwong which decided it wanted to release into my hand with his spikes, not fun. Gully managed to get a small black ass and as the wind freshened we called it quits. Not a bad day on the water except for the gale force winds, managed a nice feed all the same.
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At this rate I would expect the Mindarie Night Fishing Invitational to be cancelled tomorrow night. If that south wester is anywhere near as strong tomorrow as it was today then I think that it would be unsafe and very uncomfortable out there.

Cheers,
Adam