Well after a shitty couple of weeks back at university again and trying to get into the swing of another semester, I decided screw uni for the day, the weather was great and missing a few lectures was well worth getting out on the boat with the old man for a bit of a fish or a bit of a crab sesh.

After loading all the gear into the boat and getting down to the water at a lazy 10 am, the Easterly winds were around a 15- 20 knots and dying off/  With the ocean and swell flat as a tack we made the decision to head out wide, which resulted in a pretty interesting result as we found some very decent ground.  After dropping our lines, I had a light line and a heavy line out which was placed in the rod holder, my light line set up started pulling drag and after winding up I could see the outline of a nice size king george whiting, only to have a large grey shadow come out of nowhere behind it.  As it came to the surface the grey shadow which turned out to be a black tip reef shark smashed my king george down for lunch and creayed a water spray which covered me and took my light line of 15 pound for a quick spin before the hook gave way.

Five mins later after being totally stunned, the old mans heavy rod went off peeling drag only to hear the words for F*** sake and it was gone.  Old man put his rod down n while fixing another set up shouts F*** your rod boy.  My (shimano torium 30 loaded with 50lb ) was peeling line off like no tomorow.  I quickly wound up my light gear and the fight was on.

After 15 mins of battling and 3 solid runs a nice 4 ft Black tip reef shark hit the surface and after a quick dispatch and onto the ice, me an the old boy set up the rods again to fish. After a few more drops resulting in some nice whiting and Kg, my torium took another U shaped look and the line was screaming off again.  Just as the southwest wind was starting to really kick up, after another solid 10-15 min battle and getting her to the boat 2 -3 times (realising it was another black tip reef shark,) before absolutely smashing me and making another run for the bottom.  2 grey shadows appear out of nowhere following the shark to the surface and shooting back into the depths (both black tip reef sharks) and on the sounder they were everywhere definately a spot marked in the gps).

The old man gaffed it and we quickly dispatched it and put it on ice. After this the south wester was howling so we decided to call it a day. Here is the result. I have to say for the size of these fish they are incredibly powerful in and out of the water. And some of it was eaten fresh for dinner tonight with fresh garden salad and homemade potato wedges and it was bloody beautiful.

Hope my story didnt bore the brain cheers guys . Back to uni tomorow , but all worth the fun and stress relief.

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