Did well on my last break home getting the boat out in the water 9 days of the 23 that i had off. Did a couple of solo runs and the rest with mates. Had to buy a new rod for the TLD 50 and a new reel ( daiwa saltiga overhead ) for the spare setup. Just want to shout out to Complete angler and camping on dixon road in Rockingham for doing me an excellent deal on everything i bought that day, i will be coming back soon to get some gear for a trip to shark bay next year. I will try to recall what i/we caught on each day. The first 4 days i was home i had the boat in the water.

Day 1. Arvo run, Pinkie and a dhuie. Nothing big but hey fish in the boat.

Day 2. After getting home from day 1 at 10pm and just parking the boat up not worried about cleaning it until tomorrow, i filleted the two fish and thought "gee what can i do with the offal" hooked up the boat again for a solo run back to the same spot to get rid of it . With the bait all defrosted from the day before i dropped down and within about 2 minutes both rods buckled big time. First thought was both sambos and i was right mostly.... but the sambo was accompanied by a cracker baldie. With a grin from ear to ear i went back again of coarse, managed to nail a double header of blackasses. They weren,t massive but the bigger one went into the tank and the second one went back. Chuffed with the two drifts and had more than enough fish i thought that will do and headed back in. was home by 1030am.

Day 3. Mrs had an afternoon shift on this day so i thought i should stick around in the morning but still went out in the arvo. Just went for a squid this time with 2 other mates. One of them had no idea what to expect squidding and ended up with a face full of ink and needless to say some dirty clothes. Ended up getting 6 good size squid in about 2 hours. 

Day 4. Cleaned the squid from the day before and kept the legs as bait and gave the tubes to me mate as he had not tried fresh squid. Still having the itch to get amongst some decent fish off i went again out to the 40's with another mate to see what we could come up with. Fresh squid on as bait it was a little slow in the morning but decided i would change things up and setup the terez and do some jigging. Of all things to get... a NW blowie.... haha would never have thought a blowie would take a jig. Anyway as the day went on we managed another 2 average pinks and a maybe 6-7 kg dhu.

Decided the boat can have a rest for a few days and the wind was playing up a bit for a few days so time to let the body recoop from the jet lag.

Day 5. After a few days rest and many beers down, i gave another mate a call to see if he wanted to come out just in the sound and asked if he could get me some occy diving. This man never turns up an opportunity to be in the ocean so that arvo off we go to garden island. In the water he gets while i sit and drink some more beers he comes back to the boat about 1hr later with a huge bag of occy. Emptied into a 25 litre bucket nearly filled it. Sweet... Bait for days..

Day 6. Me and same mate went out for an arvo fish after he finished work and just before dark we had 2 gummys on board around 1 meter in length. We persisted for a few hours but no luck after the two sharks.

Day 7. Another solo run, back to where the sharks were caught, and managed a baldie and another shark im not greedy just a half day, 2 fish and went home.

Day 8. Back to the original spots where the sambos were ( great food for the dogs, they love it ) Managed 2 sambos a baldie and about 5 undersize dhu's

Day 9. Took the mrs, my sister and her partner. The sea was a little angry from the days before and the wind was squally for a few hrs then it would die off for a few hrs before coming back again. We hit 35 meters and started fishn and the mrs was getting greener and greener with no interest in fishing at all. She put the hard word on me to take her back in and i had to oblige. Dropped her off and headed back out with the others. We went to shark spot again and managed another gummie, a black ass and this stonker cuttlefish. 

I didn't take many pics but i will be sure to next time. It was a wicked break and im greatful to have been able to get out so much on my time off. Lets see what next break can bring.

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