Well Glenn and I headed out to one of the Islands off here early saturday morning for an overnight trip, fortunately the weather looked awesome. The main plan was to do some GT popping and then a bit of bottom bashing when the tide slowed a bit.

The tides were pretty slow and not very ideal for the GT fishing but we worked hard and still hooked a couple of good fish. We also found some new GT ground which would probably fire really well on the bigger tides.

Glenn had two hookups which toasted him on 80lb, quite funny watching him hang onto 10kg of drag :) I had one AWESOME hit that didn't hookup from a car bonnet sized GT. Half it's back came out of the water when it hit and the amount of water it moved was phenomenal.

I was dissapointed we still didn't manage to land one but it's only a matter of time.

Glenn managed this nice gold spot while we were GT popping, it barely managed to pull and inch of the drag we had set for the GT's.

When it started to get a bit slow I started casting a 30g twisty for some queenies on the lighter gear. I managed a few little ones and then on about the 8th cast a massive GT nailed it. The result was a very fast spooling on my stradic with 30lb :)

After the GT fishing we located a school of mack tuna so we both caught one each and kept it for bait. Unfortunately the bottom fishing was extremely slow. Glenn had a live flag get hammered and then busted off after a few seconds. Damn.

We headed back to the island to call it a day, have a few coronas and a feed. Afterwards, I noticed a little baby turtle on the beach... then it didn't take long before we noticed all his mates coming down the beach, racing to the water. I'd never seen it before and it was a wicked experience seeing the baby turtles.

Once they finished we decided to go and do some reef walking on the low tide. In about 15 minutes we had 4 good crays in the bag... awesome. A bit of running around chasing ghost crabs and then it was off to bed.

The following morning we woke up to find the boat high and dry, we'd missed the high tide by a couple of hours. Damn, we were stuck on the island until the afternoon high.

We decided to go for a walk and fish some cliffs with our crabs we'd caught. It was hard getting past the pickers but Glenn managed a reasonable estuary cod and hooked up to a decent bluebone. Once we'd used up all the crabs we threw out all the left overs into the water. It acted as pretty good burley because about 10 minutes later we had a bluebone about 90cm milling about in 50cm of water at the base of the cliffs. What a sight.

We headed back to the beach and decided it was time for a snorkel, I headed out to a rocky hedland and located a nice bommie. Sure enough, there was about 4 crays underneath the ledge. I dived under and grabbed one, swam to the rocks and put him in a rock pool. Went back down and grabbed another. I decided I had more than I could handle so I headed back to shore.

We swam around for another couple of hours until the tide had come in just enough for use to shimmy the boat into the deeper water and get it floating.

We had planned to do a bit more GT fishing so we both put in about a dozen casts each before we figured it was pretty pointless with the nil tidal movement we had. Both pretty tired we decided to head home.

Not the best fishing but who can complain with weather like this?? Half a dozen crays as a consolation prize and witnessing some pretty special wildlife made it a really good trip... watching Glenn get toasted by some pretty big GT's was good too hehe..