Well after checking the forecast I pretty much had Sunday written off and we hit the piss hard on Saturday night until about 3am. After a sleep in and a big feed of bacon and eggs we went outside Sunday morning at 9.30am to find out the 20 knot forecast easterlies hadn't come in... a quick check on the internet and it was only blowing 5-7 knots. Crap, let's go fishing. We were on the water shortly after 10 and the water was like a millpond. Once we got outside the islands the wind had significantly increased throughout the voyage and it was now noticably hairy. Alas, it died off shortly after and the remainder of the afternoon was bliss.

We put in a mega effort on the GT front considering the previous nights effort, but they were the quietest I've seen them in ages. I got one good hit from a good GT and raised a few rats but that was all we managed however Glenn got one of the biggest queenies I've ever seen on a Hammerhead pencil. I was popping in one of our favourite areas when something very exciting happened. I was retrieving my popper when I saw something very big and very black cruise in behind my popper. At first I thought it was a big black GT but as it got closer I noticed a BILL come out and slash my popper! It was a bloody sailfish.... in only 6m of water! Well, after he'd had a go (and unfortunately not hooked up) he free swam around the boat for a further 20 seconds while Glenn frantically tried to find something to throw at it. He swam off before we had another chance. Wow, one of the most awesome things I've ever seen.. soooo close to getting a sailfish on a popper.

Soon after, we noticed a mega school of something going nuts out a little wider. We cruised out hoping there might be some sails balling up some bait, I had a small sinking stick bait in case there was but it turned out to be hundreds of rainbow runner... never seen these off Dampier before. First cast with the stickbait and it got annihalated by the ravaging rainbows. They go extremely hard for their size, not suprising since they're related to Yellowtail Kingfish. We cruised around chasing them for a little longer then started popping again. We tried some new areas we don't usually fish in case the fish were holding up in different spots due to the easterly winds we've had but we had little success. Oh well, you get those days.

Now it's time to look forward to this years billfish shootout. We've got a great forecast for the three day event and there's record numbers of boats fishing this years tournament. Plenty of billfish have been caught recently so it's shaping up to a fantastic weekend. Look out for team Hammerhead. See you on the water.