A quick report of the weekend up here.  Had to spend most of Friday tidying up loose ends and was waiting for Jeffro to finish work, come 3 o'clock and I get the call.  Thinking it might be a little too late, he's still keen so we decide that it must be done.  We got out to the spot about 5.15 and first drop had 3 goldies and a scarlet sea perch (originally called it for a crimson), the next three drops filled the bag limit of 8 goldband and we were done and ready to troll by 5.45.  A quick zig zag on the way in without luck and a few cold beers finished off the day nicely.

Saturday morning came and Jeffro and I knocked off a few fillets and with light winds blowing accross the gulf it was obvious that it was going to be a nice day.  Heading out with Gatsey and Richo we got lines in the water around 10 and headed south for some billie action and maybe a few deep water species if the surface wasn't happening.  Just before bounce down we had a fiesty little black around 20kg eat a whole queenie on the right rigger and with the tag in, we cut him off for an easy release.  Unfortunately I didn't get any pics as it all happened so fast and as it was caught on 24kg it came to the boat in only a few minutes.  After another hour of no surface action we brought out the deep gear and as soon as we hit the bottom I was on, a fair old heave and up comes 15+kg of greyband and a 3kg ruby.  Next drop Richo and Gatsey go the double hookup, Matt with a nice rubes and an unknown (sea bream?) type of pinky and Richo with the killer triple header of 5+kg rubies.  (He also dropped one over the side while posing for a photo so had to jump in the drink to save it.) The last drop ended up with another ruby to Richo and I, but of course 10m under the surface a solid 8ft furgle came and smashed mine giving us the nod that it was time to move.  We continued to troll for the rest of the afternoon and moved in close for the sails that have been on the back of the reef, with no luck we finished the last of our beers and headed in on sunset in near on perfect glassy conditions.

Sunday weather was absolute spot on again, unfortunately I had to work.  I did have to go for a snorkel to clean our sea cage and saw 1 nice trout, couple blues and an awesome bailer shell which unfortunately still had its host so was left for another day.  All in all, a pretty good weekend and with summer well and truly on the way (she's starting to get warm!) hopefully the water will heat up soon and bring on some serious pelagic action.  :)

Cheers,

Adam