After buying a new sounder, new jigging rod and a crapload of jigs, I was ready to hit the water and chase some sambos so I went out to the 40-50 meter mark for the first time to sound around some contours and look for spots. On the way out we saw a large amount of birds diving the water and heaps of little baitfish jumping out of the water so out came the poppers, stickbaits and divers but between trolling and casting just infront of the baitfish, we had nothing and not even anything on the sounder and it was THEN we worked out, it was a massive school of flying fish, which was awesome. We then kept on going out and sounded around for about an hour and literally nothing showed up and with only a 20L peterol tank and 3 jerry cans, we decided not to waste any more fuel and started heading back in.

THEN the sounder showed something, not exactly what we were looking for, but a pod of whales had swam near us somehow without us noticing, so off went the engine and we just sitting there crapping ourselves waiting for one to just flip the boat or something crazy, but was great to watch them play, seeing whales in the wild is a first for me. After they buggered off we decided to keep going in to avoid more whales, and I saw a nice lump in the 20-30 meter mark just near FFB which was holding a lot of activity.

Out came the jigs and I could see things chasing it up, big dark shadows but then smaller demersals were also chasing it so I decided best not to jig incase of hooking one. I cleverly told my mate who was sleeping to get off his backside and float a mulie down there, so he did. Next minute his line screams like theres absolutely no tomorrow and I could see by his rod this was no ray. As I scrambled around for the net, just as I look up, a 3-4 meter (what I think was a bronzie because of the tail but not sure) jumped about a meter in the air, about 10 meters from the boat. As we were screaming like little schoolgirls, my mate forgot that his rod only has a certain amount of line, so now somewhere there's a shark in the water with 100m of mono attatched to it's gob so if anyone catches it, please return it ;) haha.

We drifted around that spot and ended up with 1 55cm flathead which was surprising before going in to mewstone for some tailor, where we met my boss on his boat. Around there we saw a big group of dolphins playing and the biggest stingray I've ever seen that was about 3/4 the size of my 5.1m boat. Basically the night proceeded like this: loud cheering from his boat as they landed 15+ fish and 20 meters away, us falling asleep and wondering what we were doing wrong using the EXACT same rigs and bait.

As for fishermen, we failed. After 12 hours in the water we had 1 fish but I still rate it as one of the best days I've ever had.