Borrowed my mates lil tub yesterday as he works away and putted out into the sound before dawn. Set the pick at 8m at a likely looking drop off and got our burley mix of striped tuna, burley pellets and a tin of chum dog food flowing off the back of the boat. Cast out a 7inch Zman Grub on a light jighead as a drifter in the burley trail while I worked a smaller plastic on a lighter outfit. Gave Goodz a call to see where he was as he was heading out on a mates boat and they were still on land having trouble accessing their boat pen. I noticed the drifting plastic was probably sitting on the bottom not doing much so reeled it in and dropped it straight under the boat leaving it about half a meter off the bottom and put the rod back in the rod holder and let the rocking of the boat do all the work. I was re-rigging the lighter outfit after a first cast snag when my mate yells out and I turn around to see my 4-6kg Nitro buckled over in the rod holder! I strike but pull the hooks so let it sink back down and give it two twitches and WHACK im back on. While the Ci4 was humming away we were ya-hooing as we didnt expect anything to happen after only 10mins of getting to the spot. After a couple minutes of headshakes and good runs I netted the fish.

We were over the moon and couldnt believe it but things were only about to get better! I gave Goodz another call to tell him to hurry the hell up and in mid conversation my mate hooks up on 5inch Mcarthy straight under the boat again. Rudely had to hang up on Goodz and up popped a smaller snapper around the 45-50cm mark. I dropped my big Grub straight under the boat again as the burley was clearly working and attempted to re-rig the other outfit. Hadn't even tied the leader on yet when the rod buckles over again, this time striking to a solid hook-up. This was another solid fish and meanwhile my mate Ben lands another pan-size fish. After a couple minutes we watched this 90cm+ snapper rise through the depths to the sruface at the boat. Once again ya-hoo-ing Ben grabs the net and realises in all the mayhem we had forgotten to dispatch the first snapper!! While Ben frantically gets the first fish out the net my big fish takes one more lunge and the line loses all tension. Bugger. Did I mention that the first fish slightly bent the jighead and I couldnt be bothered rigging up a new one? Whoops. By now the jighead had completely straightened out. I remember saying to Ben that I wasnt even pissed off as my day had already been made with our efforts so far. Finally got some time to re-rig the light outfit, 4inch Snapback paddletail, 20lb leader, 8lb fireline, 2500 Shimano Stradic and a 1-3kg rod. Ben hooked up again to a sub 60cm snapper just as Goodz rocked up and I dropped the plastic over the side. First lift of the plastic and Im on again, after a bit of a tussle another dinner plate size pinkie hits the deck. There was a splash a meter from the boat and I looked up to see Goodz had cast his plastic from his boat 25m away! It was a ping-cast if I ever did see one! Quick release of the fish and the plastic is on the way back down. Lift lift bang, on again! This time a better fish of around 3.5kg which was dispatched to the ice bath. Fish were actually taking the plastic on the sink so you had to watch the rate your line was coming off the spool. It was an epic session, we landed 10 or 11 fish in 40mins, plastics getting hit nearly every cast! 

Next target species were Tailor and Sambos so we pushed on to our next spot. The swell was up which made things a bit hairy but we didnt manage any tailor but Ben did have a surprise catch landing an undersize Yellowtail King.

We caught a couple herring on plastics and chucked them straight onto big hooks on 30lb gear. Managed to hook a couple sambos but we were no match for them in 3-4m of water! 

Pushed on to our last spot for squid/king george whiting. The sun was high and we didnt manage any squid so instead we sight-casted to king george in the shallows for a bit of fun.

All in all we had a great day and took home a very tast bag!