Well after not having a fish for 24 hours, it was time to get out and wet a line. With nothing out for tea, i was seeking some fresh fish.

With a light eastly blowing and high tide around lunch time, it was looking great for fishing. Loaded up the old navara, and headed down to the resort, where ET used to run his fishing charters out of. There is a nice beach along the front of the resort, and rocks out about 30 m all along the beach. But the only thing about fishing there, one must watch for the snapping handbags, as a big boy was seen there a few weeks back.

First started working the beach up and down with a 40g twistie, but for about 30 casts only hooked a small queenie. I then changed to a bright green medium sized ritcher plug and worked my way back up the beach for no hits at all. I was starting to think maybe toasted cheese sandwiches for tea. I had a dig around in my tackle box and found some small ritcher plugs, that i got Mako to send up to me a couple of weeks back. Tied on one of the plugs, and began to cast. The wind by now had started to pick up, but this was good as i was able to cast out a bit further. The red and white plug flew threw the air, and plunged into the water about 50ms out. A quick flick of the bail arm, rod tip in the water, i began my slow retrieve. Bang, i was on.....shit not another queenie.  There was no silver spash in the water, and once i turned the fish around and got it to shore i could soon see it was a nice coral trout. Measured him up at 49cms, this is perfect eating size for my tea!