i'ld hooked up the boat the night before , Finished night shift Monday morning picked up my brother who's down for easter and launched within half an hour of knocking off an hour later first drop

did a few drifts for one run but dropped it ,headed out a few Nm to another spot with a few drops on shows on the way out for nothing

not long after the drift came to a stop and found was only getting bites when the bigger sets of swell were coming through so started manually bouncing our baits for  2 shovel nose , a knife jaw (thanks Milsey) and at last a dhuie , things went quiet and getting towards high tide decided to head in to the first spot we hit to ancor and burley as it wasn't happening , not long after pulled up an under size dhuie , then dropped one that felt like a better model on the way up .

things went quiet again so decided to float down a mulie and my brother did the same , after the second rebait he's goes off , i look up and my brothers oblivious to the fact the lines not on the spool ( alvey side cast ) after a bit of shouting from me he gets it back on , he then says oh by the way i'll need the gaff as i've only used the 50lb low stretch of my overhead as leader and a gang , at this stage i'm thinking we'll be lucky to see colour and questioning my brothers intelligence but after a 10-15 minute fight this pinky pops to the surface and see the top hook almost straight but the fish was almost floating on it's side knackered and suffering a bit of barotrauma so was easy to gaff luckily

he's next drop with the floating mulie accounted for a rat sambo and not long after the breeze had picked right up so decided to call it a day .

one stoked brother with he's PB pinky

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