Went out in the afternoon on Saturday as it looked sweet on sea breeze a few accidents were had before the start apparently the deck is slippery and people get stuck in eskies, then I forgot the boat key so just before launching on the ramp I had to go home and fetch that sighh but the day did not disappoint, took the missus and the 5yo. She read magazines and snoozed while the men fished but if it means I can go fishing no problem :) We went out to a snapper spot and sure enough hooked up on snapper about 35cm darn decent frying pan size and I had to explain why they went back in the water. But my son loved it first he was unhappy about the pink braid but by the end he would not part with his stradic 6000 T curve combo. I had my little 4000 with mulies for fun out the back and it hooked up more then the big tyrinos awsum fun on light gear them snappers are :)

So fished out on snapper I took my son to what I called King George spot we cast our lines after me setting a terrible drift and I lobbed out the 4000 with its gangs and a mulie but I added a squid head to the mulie within a minute the rod buckled over and my son yelled when he saw it the missus was torn out of the cabin as a netter and we hauled in what turned out to be a nice 53cm .9kg king George awssum first keeper. A few more drifts and nothing caught so i sad lets go to a spot where I once got a little dhuie its only a few km away from here and off we went with the sun slowly starting to drop and the missus saying its late dear.

Got to the spot and hooked up straight away snapper all around 25-30cm - smaller then earlier but kudos xander pulled out of 35m a double header by himself I just had to give a little rod holding assist talking about being stoked once again why we could not pan fry them was explained :) and they were released. He then only wanted to use my rod so with the sun dropping even more and light starting to fade I had to unravel his line as the photo will show ;) once his line in wife in cabin saying its getting cold I looked at my tyrinos and noticed my 100pound leader was flimsy on the braid link, checking it sure enough it came apart ahhhh crap I thought I don't know how to tie them up properly (does anyone whast the best way to join them ?) So I did my only fishing knot I know how been using it since 15 and simply knotted the two up thinking stuff it what the heck one more drop, Squid went down and I messed about on the other side of the boat when my son starts to squeal dad dad fish your line, I turn and the tyrinos is peeling off my 5yo desperately trying to wind it in (its in the rod holder) but not succeeding, I grab the rod and crap ain't felt this for a while massive pull tension at 7kg and lines just goin wirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr fark typical no real join up my knott nooo I think but I quickly get whatever it is up a bit of the ground before it runs again and so it went me saying aghh honey they net need the net I think its a dhuie as it pulled like a freight train but no real head shakes came with the pulls. The missus gets irritated as I tell her to clear the side n grab the landing net about 5 min later I see the knot coming into my rod guides phew almost got that part on the spool safer now and the colour of silver starts to show in the dimm night and finally a whopper dhuie is surfaced and quickly netted by the wife who gets less irritated and ist replaced with wwow and crap and my son going what a biggg fish. Well it came in just shy of 10kg and I realise I need a bigger sharper and better filleting knife I think its time for a swibo. Greast day out the missus even enjoyed it I think dinner definitely helps though family asleep exhausted by 8 while I am filleting and then washing down the boat sighhhh long awsummm day !