Yours truly and a mate went metro fishing this morning, the first break in the weather for weeks. Launching before dawn we headed out to a mark we fished previously.  The 585 sounder was ablaze with colour as we we passed over some massive balls of fish showing brilliant red on the sounder.

First drift, a little south of where we hoped the drift would take us, drew a blank so we pulled in the sea anchor for a second shot. 

We were both fishing with two rods each, all relatively light and all rigged predominantly to target deep water kg whiting. Oh and thanks Ryan for your time and freely given kn owledge passeedd on yesterday which set us up for this trip with rigs per your instructions and carefully peeled occy tenticles for bait, the KGW's we were targeting would surely cooperate today.

The second drift had only been going a minute or two when one of jeff's rods bends double to something slightly larger than a kgw, I'm on he shouts, hang on he says me other rod is going off as well.

Well I hardly needed the invitation did I so I quickly move to try and subdue another obviously good fish.  That might have been OK but for the fact no sooner had I picked up that rod than both of mine go ballistic as well!

Jeff's winning the battle and a double header of easily size dhuies hit the surface to woops of delight, which got even louder when the fish I was fighting on his other rod also popped up away from the boat in classic dhuie behaviour.  Dropping the fish on the deck I grab my $9 dollar special rod (yeh I know cheapskate) as it was loosing line fast and was by far the lightest rigged with only a small okuma and 20lb braid much of which had vanished from the spool> This fish was solid and wasn't coming in easily but the final rod was now also bent double and I called for jeff to grab it and return the favour.  Giving that fish hell he quickly subdued it, you guessed it another size dhuie while all along I continue to very slowly gain line on the fish on the 9 buck special.  After perhaps 10 minutes it pops up away from the boat and it is a really beautifully marked and by far the biggest of the five dhuies.  Jeff quickly returned the smallest fish to see it swim away strongly to the bottom.........bag limit of BSB's in a drift and a half by 8.15 in the morning, the sun had only just hit the sky with it's not so warming rays.

We toyed with pulling stumps but we went out there chasing KGW and Jeff had also dropped what was clearly a good snapper from the vibrating fight it gave him.

Next drift and another BSB to jeff, again easily size and again returned sucessfully - the key being perhaps the fact we were fishing light and were taking our time getting hooked fish to the surface minimising barotrauma.  

It went quiet for a while before I hooked a steam train on steroids again on the really light gear, half way through the fight I clearly felt some weight come off and called it for a lost fish but still had plenty of weight left and fight to boot, several minutes later we gaffed my personal best WA pinkie @ 85 Cms.   Oh yeh and we got three kgw just to round out our bag limit of four fish each.   Two more sized dhuies were also returned without problem and we were broken off by several unstoppables a couple of which felt like really big dhuies..............all in all a SPECIAL DAY on the water in the metro area.  Photos will follow, I refused to take a camera as it seemed to moz us but Jeff sneeked one in this time !!!!!!