After taking an invite to fish with Steve231 and pal John aka Dhudog, we met up @ his place and headed out for a fish. The morning was crazy cold, I had to stop at the servo to wash the ice off my windscreen, because windscreen wiper nozzles just couldn't put out enough water at t once, and it was refreezing!

We loaded up Steve's Trophy Pro, the launch was fine, but about half way to our destination, the GPS antenna just stopped working. Ever seen that warning on your plotter saying "GPS module not responding"? I have, its pretty unsettling. After a quick chat about what to do, we transferred points from the gps/sounder to my iphone, took a bearing and kept going.

Now, the problem with the iphone was that GPS chews battery life and I didn't have a car charger with me! Steve and John hatched a good plan, we found the lump to fish as best we could on the iphone, then pinpointed it with the sounder, and then dropped a marker buoy on the spot, running our drifts against that.

The fishing was a little slow on bait to start with, and even slower on jig. The drift in the morning was a little fast, so I had resorted to octa, but later in the arvo the drift slowed right down and it was back to jigs.

There were some crazy catches including;

• A Steve cops a bite off, only for John to catch a shark 5min later and we get the hook back.
• Two sharks tail hooked
• A Shark on jig (thankfully it chewed through the kevlar assist while we were wondering how to get rid of it and not lose the jig.)
• A nice baldy by Steve
• Really big blackarse by John
• A few skippy, nanny and a swallowtail.
• Zomg so so many sgt bakers on jig!
• One lonely Tuna out of a bust up. Still a little unsure what it was, the meat seems pinker than SBT, not really very yellow fins, could be bigeye ... I didn't check for tail notch though.

Saving the best to last though, was we all hooked and landed a dhufish each. Even more amazing was that all hookups were within 2min, so we just released the freshest. I've put up a pic of mine which was a PB and on jig too!

The marker buoy really saved the day, on the iphone alone the battery would be completely flat and we would be back at home mowing the lawn or some other weekend chores! Steve and John may have a few more pics!

PS: Andy Mac, thats one horizon we're not going to fix in photoshop!