Last week someone asked what they might catch out on the three mile at night, well we went out last night and I have listed everything we caught. I don't know how helpful it is but certainly shows that you can get a good mixed bag of fish not far from home.

So we headed out at about 5pm and the water was nearly glassy as we flew down the coast at 28kns. We anchored up in only 12m of water but a nice lump nearby coming up to 9m. we started with a little burley out the back as we set up the big floating baits out the back of the boat, one bait was a whole bonito we caught the other day. things were a little quiet at first but then the first wrasse started to come in and my friend pulled in a nice skippy. Then without warning the big rod with the whole bonito bait started losing line pretty quickly and we watched as the balloon was pulled under the water and popped. My friend grabbed the rod and waited for the fish to take the bait properly but unfortunately the fish must have taken us near the bottom and the 100lb leader line was scraping across the reef and the fight didn’t last too much longer, the leader wore through.

Also not long after we had that big hook up there was two small boats not that far from us and we could hear them yelling and screaming and I am sure I heard one of them say shark, there was screams of look at that and whooo how big is that, all coming from their boats. So we wondered if the shark we had hooked had headed off over to their boats after we upset it. if anyone knows someone that was fishing last night and they saw a big shark near their boat I would love to hear about it.

Our list of edible size fish

2 Tarwhine

6 skippy one near 1kg

3 tailor one went 49cms

1 king George whiting 53cm

Our list of other fish

eagle ray

striped whirra

sand bass or false barra

A couple of brown wrasse and red wrasse

Under sized pinkie

A small round black ray, smallest I have ever seen

port Jackson

scorpion fish

Snook

Then the bust offs

We both lost a big fish, busted us off on our small gear, most likely stingrays

We had a floating bait go off with a mulie on it, I had it on for a little bit but it spat the hook, would have been a medium sized shark

Then when packing up we found the whole skippy bait we had out had been bitten off leaving us with just a head on the hook

Then of course the big bait went off and we lost it.

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