G'day 

We got out yesterday at gentleman's hours (1pm) yesterday! What a lovely change that was rather than getting up at 2am to go fishing.

Got out on the water an were greeted with very calm conditions. We motored out to Mewstones. There were heaps of boats already out there, the strange thing was that they were all anchored up on the 'wrong side' west side of the reef. We saw a couple people onto fish but not many, so we threw the lures in the water and began to troll the Eastern end of the reef, bang fish on! another quick troll another fish! Then people slowly started moving to the Eastern side of the reef which made trolling almost impossible, one boat in particular just stopped right in our trolling path (which was only about 40m to begin with (more of a circle). 

We then decided to chase some birds about 200m away with a few other boats, found a good school in about 6m of water. This time we just drifted with about 10 other boats (most of which seemed like actual fisherman not weekend warriors) - few boys on the fly, some with hard bodies and the odd one with plastic. We opted for the plastics. At one stage I wasn't even working the lure at all, just lobbing it into the general direction of the school and watching the fish fight over it! I even just dropped my plastic boat side at one stage and watched a 6kg Salmon suck it down.

All in all a great session Not sure how many fish we landed... Maybe 20 or more between the 3 of us including a couple bust offs!

It was really amazing that there were 2 distinct groups of boats fishing for salmon, at the reef (where we started) mostly the weekend warriors anchored up lobbing baits into the water. Then 200m away were all the actual fisherman all drifting together with no issues whatsoever all slowly following the school. Was really good to see a good group of boats all working together and having a laugh. Was a really special moment. Usually fishing in a car park like that is stressful and a pain in the backside, but this was something else!