Gday guys,

I was fishing on Sunday morning down at Woodman's Point for some Herring and Gardies. Just for the mornings breakfast anyway and to kill time to watch my boys play footy! My rig consisted of a metal burley cage tide to the main line and the bottom leader being 50-60cm of 2kg mono with a small #8 octopus circle hook. As I prepared my burley and may bait (Prawns - I don't like Maggots cause they are Maggots, HYUCK) I looked at the water and the visability was execptional, fantastic.

Now I was ready to bait up, so through a hand full of burely in and whacked a bit onto the cage and baited the small hook with a bit of Prawn. I opted to cast out far so I could cover alot of ground and locate where the fish are biting. First couple cast didn't recieve anything so I went back out and now I started seeing little splashes on top of the surface which made me excited. Recieved a couple small tap taps and then I was on, my first Garfish for the morning and jumping everywhere. As I got this one in, a school of Herring came gate crashing the burley area, I baited up again and went straight there. Soon as it hit the water the I was hooked up straight away, it was a large Herring could almost say Bull Herring size. It was doing its famous Houdini leaps and what not which resulted the fish coming off the hook, BUGGER!

Kept casting away with my burley in trail and getting a few more Gardies and Herring. But then something big came pass and busting the burley on the surface and I was like "What was that?" I opted to cast out to the burley area and seeing these fish busting the burley on the surface some what 30m away. I let my rig sink down for a bit and then recieve little finicky bites again and I was like "must be Gardy" so I struck and I was on big time. My 1.8kg Tica Graphite Attack rod was loaded like no tomorrow, bloody drag was peeling line out like Craig Lowndes in his Ford V8 going down the main straight. Fish was heading straight for the bottom, I called it for a big Skippy! But after a solid 5-10min fight I had a Buff Bream in sight (my heart was broken once I saw it - seriously thought it was a Skippy) of the rocks and it did another lunged for freedom. I stopped him in his tracks and got him up, bloody thing was a solid nugget I was guessing he weighed at about 2.5kg close to 3kg. I released the bugger and said "thanks for the fight" I just baited an burley the cage up again and flicked it to the same area again. Then SPLASH, BANG! Another Buffy hit me seriously it hit my like a bat out of hell and now I'm in deep trouble cause this thing was big. Got him close to the rocks then BANG another run and POP there goes my rig into the crevices of the rocks. This thing was huge, saying well over 5kgs.

Well I fished till 12 noon and had 12 Gardies and 4 Herring in the bucket and and about 30 hook ups of Buffies out at 30m away from the rocks which resulted in alot of hurt. That was my fun for the morning, sure beat staying at home.

Have fun guys,

Cheers Darda. H