Well, its been a pretty full on week.  Ended up going out three times for work and ended up with 1 x whale shark, 2 x sails, 2 x dollies, 30 x striped tuna in not bad conditions and also dropped one black on thursday.  Jeffo hadn't been for a fish in a while and wanted to get out there and with an arvo glass off forecast, that is what we did.  Got out there about 1.30 and trolled around for 3 hours with no joy and things were starting to get a little disheartening.  All of a sudden we found a baitball that was getting worked, upon closer inspection it had a massive shark on it (we think it may have been a white) but didn't get close enough to examine before it went down.  Seeing as it was on a current line we decided to troll along it and see what was there.  Within 10 minutes we had what we think was a billie come up and give the shotgun a smack, less than 2 minutes later we both watched an eruption on the purple shotty and bang, we watch a solid black erupt in the distance and peel off some serious line.  Waiting to get a few shots the billie decided to sit below the surface, after about 20 minutes we got a couple of small jumps, but just enough to get some evidence before it spat the hooks. We estimate it at about 110kg, but it could have been easily more than that.

Continuing on trolling we had a couple more hits, a nice hookup on a dolly and had his mate sit under the boat for 10 minutes watching the commotion (released) and then hooked up a couple of 3kg stripeys.  We had planned to do some bottom bouncing but seeing as the surface had some action we gave it a miss and focused on trying for another bill.  Unfortunately we couldn't find one, but headed in just on dark to a beautiful sunset with a school of spaniards chasing flying fish in an airborne frenzy, was a top way to finish the arvo session!  Hopefully this sort of billie action will keep up for the FW comp next weekend.

Cheers,

Adam