My mate Dale and I decided last weekend was the time to chase a few of the stripey eyes in the north metro.

As you can see, the conditions were pretty terrible.

The plan was to drop a few jigs on a spot that had previously produced my PB dhuie. Unfortunately, this was not to be the day for that spot, with only a double hookup of undersized pups and some random junk fish.

So off we went in search of new ground. After finding a couple of likely looking lumps in around 50m, we quickly boated a few little sambos on various jigs and gave a new combo a bit of a test. Some fun was had, but the esky was still empty, which at almost 11am was not a good sign.

So we decided to head a bit further afield, but in similar depth. I saw a pretty solid looking show on the sounder on the way to the contour which we were planning to hit, so thought we'd give it one drift, and this was the result. Double header of dhuies on a Caprice and JM jig respectively.

A second drift pulled another double header with another dhuie and an emperor of some description (like a spango, though pretty dark in colour). We released the smaller dhuies and with the emperor and my mate Dale's dhu pictured above in the esky we decided to head to some deeper ground to get away from the dhuies and try for some snapper.

First drift on a likely looking lump and I snagged up, losing a brand new Lamble. Ouch. While I was re-rigging, Dale jigged a nice pinky, double ouch.

After a re-rig I dropped the jig, and pretty quickly hooked on to something solid. It was fighting like a dhu, but given the size of the thing and the fact that we were in 95m of water it had me guessing till the last 20m or so what it was, and then up pops this solid dhu. I was pretty stoked, my second biggest on jig yet.

All in all a pretty damned good day on the water, which was made all the better with a great bbq and more than a few beers later that night.

Dan

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