Got a message from my mate scano around 10am Sunday saying 'weathers looking good should go for a fish'.

Didnt take much to convince me, so i packed the gear in the boat, and he arrived at my place about 1pm. Plan was to go out into the sound and find some squid, herring etc.

I did pak the bigger gear just incase it was nice and flat and we wanted to hit 5 fatham.

On the water on our way by 2pm from woodies. First stop ont he squid grounds about 4 or 5 minutes away. Unfortunately the water clarity was crap, so didnt have high hopes of finding many squid. However first cast with a pink jig and first squid!!! things were looking good....but after about 20 minutes it was the only one we found.

With the weather looking the goods i said, stuff it lets head out deep and see if we can find a pinky. Ive found some good coral lumps in recent times, and am always finding good fish on them, so was slightly confident we could find something....hopefully something pink.

Out we went, getting to our destination around 3pm. We were only planning on fishing a couple hours anyway, so down went the lineson the first spot....2 seconds later i had a fish on. Nothing big but none the less a fish!. Up it came slowly and was a healthy looking dhu around 40cm. On the release weight and back down he went.

Reset the drift and down we went again. This time rod loaded up and whatever it was gave 2 kicks of the tail and it was all over, busted the 80lb leader :( (i only fish 30lb in metro waters, so this was a little bit fo a shock.)

Got a little quiet on this lump on the next couple of drifts, with a few small BB's and some sweep coming up, so made the move to another piece of croal not far away. As i said to Scano, this ground most people i doubt would fish on, because even going over it at 5-6 knots, you cant see the definition, its only when you drift at 1 knot or so you can see it.

So lined up on the drift and down the lines went... First drift resulted in 2 more BB's one being 44cm so in the ice box he went. The other back on the release weight.
Reset the drift agaion and down the lines went....few seconds past and bang im on again, this time a much better fish, which was pulling some line... After 4 or so minutes a nice 56cm (guessed 4kg) baldie hit the surface..you ripper. I rate baldie the best eating metro fish, and have mnaged to get a few in this area. High 5's and high hopes!

At this stage the sounder was lit up like a Christmas tree and there were fish everywhere.

So reset for another drift and down we went.... Wait 5 seconds...wait 10 seconds, and bang, Scano is on... This time a Solid fish, and probably the biggest he's landed on his new light weight bottom bashing setup. Takes it nice and slow, and the call was Dhu!! 6 or 7 minutes later it floats to the surface... you ripper! 9kg Dhu. To say we were happy was an under statement. We had only been fishing this area for an hour and a half and managed some great fish!

Reset the drift again, as the sounder was glowing still, and down we went... this time again Scano loads up. Not quite as big but looks decent!! 2 minutes later one of the bigger BB's Ive seen comes up! didnt measure but would say over 50 no worries.

So that was our limit of 4 fish and we were happy. During the landing of fish, we did manage to bust off on some ripper fish too, 1 im pretty sure was another big dhu, which came off the same spot the 9kg one did...Plus landing a few swallowtail, skippy, and other bits and pieces.

Good to see some metro waters are still full of fish life, and provide some good fishing! No pinkys which i thought was unusual, but none the less plenty of other fish!! all in a couple of hours too!

Just so happens this trip i wasnt expecting too much, so didnt bring the camera...mistake! but did take the only pic with the phone, soory about the quality.