Had the boat in the water at 0600 yesterday [ Friday] morning for a run down to the Lady Joyce wreck. Near flat condition saw us cover the ten nm at 23 knots in no time.

There were two other boats there when we arrive, one anchored just south of it and the other with a sea anchor out? in near windless conditions [must have been a visitor from down south because nearly all locals anchor and fish to prevent breaking the schools up]. We anchored right on top of the wreck and cast away from it in an attempt to get away from the millions of undersized fish that inhabit it. 2 just size black snapper in an hour and what seemed like 200 releases of small fish was enough to make us move.

One of the other boats set sail for home and the other looked like he was going prospecting a couple of miles further south so we upped anchor and moved to a small edge not far from the wreck. After anchoring it was pink snapper of 3-4 cm over minimum and black well over . Colin got an estuary cod around 70cm . We had a fish count after an hours fishing to check on our numbers, black snapper 7, need one more, pink snapper 5, could do with one more, estuary cod 1, could do with one more for our limit.

Over the next half an hour it was big black snapper one after another, all to be released, a big break off on what felt like a huge cod until finally a rankin cod put an end to our trip.

The wind had changed from a gentle puff from the SSE to NE about 5 knots just enough to cause a ripple on the water for the run back home. Arrived at the leads and was tempted to turn around and head back out because the closer in we got, the stronger and HOTTER the wind got. Stiil a nice cruisey trip with good company, some good fish and back home at 1030.

Not enough good fish to take pics IMO so none to put up