Well after a few months earlier in the year of catching SFA just about every session, the tide has started turning and fish are starting to jump in the boat again! After checking seabreeze early in the week I hatched a plan with joelborg92 to head out for a pinky session then a muck around on the shallow reefs to look for some tailor, but after checking Meteye the night before I changed the plans to head out wide for a sambo jig after a pinky session as their forecast was much more favourable compared to seabreeze.

Heading out under the cover of darkness the following morning I still hadn't decided which area I was going to fish, the first 5mins after leaving the ramp I was heading north, then changed back to heading south, then north again, quick check on the phone to check the wind observations then made the call to go south. First spot I sounded over and did a quick check on current direction and really wasnt feeling that confident I pushed on to an old-faithful spot from the old boat that I had not really fished in the current boat. As Joel was feeding out the anchor the screw on the shackle to the rope fell out but he managed to grab the last bit of chain as it was going through the bow-sprit. Well nearly losing the anchor and watching my $250 pair of sunnies fall from the console, bounce off the gunnel and falling into the drink just 10 minutes earlier and the sun had not even poked its head over the ranges yet had me thinking it was going to be one of those days again where I get home and feel like taking a few pics of the boat and chucking it up on gumtree! Well with the pinks smashing baits and plastics but the score being 0-5 after just 45mins, with every fish making it to the same bombie or pulling hooks I was still tossing up what price I was going to put on the gumtree ad! As Joel was re-rigging his plastics outfit his drift-bait outfit took off and urged me to grab it, this one felt much smaller than what we had been hooking previously and I steered him away from the bombie with ease.

Before not too long the score was about 1-10 with rods just constantly buckling over, few more in the reef and pulled hooks but it seemed now the taxman had also arrived and was taking his cut. Then Joel managed 2 horses cracking a new PB at 86cm, these fish taking a bait and plastic just under the surface in the burley trail and also had an epic hook-up on fly with a pink nabbing the fly just metres from the boat as he was feeding line out, unfortunately that fish didnt make it to the boat. I was dropping fish left, right and center.

Getting to the sambo grounds it wasnt looking that great with no fish on the sounder just a lot of bait showing. We were quickly proven otherwise with a double hookup on a pair of pup sambos to warm up on.

Then I completed the bag with a 650 dhu that took the plastic on the sink, not a bad sambo bycatch.

The sambos kept coming, white plastics over 7inch is my go-to for sambos, I find jigs a bit hit and miss but they'll never turn down a placcie. The fish seemed to be getting bigger with every drift.

With the Sambos really starting to fire up, starting to show on the sounder and following up hooked fish Joel pulled out the fly gear again and nailed his first sambo on fly, leaving plenty of room for an upgrade in the future.

Another dhu on the plastic, brought up nice and slow and popped up in great condition to be sent back down on the release weight.

As I said earlier, with the fish getting bigger every drift, Joel nailed another PB with this sambo on the last drop of the day. Was a great way to end the day and we skipped back in at 28knts with a complete glass off. You wont see my tub on Gumtree just yet.