Went out a couple weeks ago after a mate from work said his sounder was broken but he had a spot written down. I usually head out from Port Douglas and the Daintree so I was keen to fish out of Innisfail.

I'm usually an early morning fisho but this was a night fish, so we left my place about midday for the 1:45 or so drive down there.

We were met with wonderful conditions and comfortably cruised out to the inner reefs. First couple drops and couple small but legal coral trout hit the deck, then we decided to have a look around while we still had some light.

We found quite a few good looking spots and had a couple more drops, with a slow but steady flow of various reefies coming onboard.

Just before last light we figured that the best spot was the first one so we headed back. About 7.30pm the current started getting stronger and the bite kicked off a lot better, we ended up with about 30 fish I'd guess with trout, scarlet seaperch, saddletail snapper, spangled emporer and reef jacks all making it into the esky.

Highlight of the trip was when my bait got absolutely smashed, after three good runs on about 9kg (at a guess) of drag, my new PB reef jack came onboard at 73.5cm. I was pretty stoked.

Unfortunately later in the night the sharks turned up and we lost some really good fish which I'm picking for saddletail snapper, bit of a shame but that's fishing. Funniest catch of the night was a spangled emporer neatly missing its tail thanks to a shark.

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