hey guys been a long time since last post so thought id quickly share me last trip and first since start of october '08....

working shift has been a arse for the fishing of late with the good weather falling on me days on and vise versa... anyways i finally had a slight window this swing around and decided to make or break it... winds looked average and a lowish swell myself and a mate bit the bullet and loaded up for a assult on some grounds about 20mile sth of gero.. spent the arvo gathering some fresh whiting and herring for bait and all looked good..

daybreak bought with it no wind and after fueling the boat and gathering some tucker n fluid we finally chucked the big blackfin in the drink... was a tad more sloshy then had hoped but we decided to press on and go from there.... steamed straight into wat seas there where checking out the odd pot on the way out without finding anything or wetting a line and finally arrived at our first spot after about a hr and 15mins... a quick sound around and the eyes sure lit up over our chosen ledge in 49m of water.... set up for a quick drift and straight up it was on.... mate norm was first into a fish and it looked the goods on his tld20 with 50lb braid as i  decided to drift bait some whole whiting on 6kg i was still making my way down.... after some huff and puff normy got a beaut 12kg dhu up along with a just legal pink which was released... then my rig went scccccreaming for sunset and it was awwwesome to finally get strecthed after the long lay off.... after a really really top fight on light gear a 88cm pink came up and i was on the board!

drifted off the spot so after quick reposition was back into it with normy cranking some more just legal pinks up 2 at a time for release whilst i again played the waiting game watching line slowly fall off the spool.... knew i had made when i was whalllloped big time and it was on again.... this time after another long solid fight on the flick stick i had a beaut 13kg dhu in the boat and was over the moon!!!

fish went quiet at our first spot after letting go alot of small pinks and 2 undersize dhuies which went back fine on the release weight so decided a move was in order. seen a pro boat dropping pots on our way to spot number 2 and realised it was the skipper i worked for at the abrolhos last season.... quick hi howzit ect and he gave me a quick waypoint he had just dropped 3 pots on... was a strictly "DONT TELL NO ONE!" msg after plotting it in so thougth "hrrm must be alright" took another hr steaming straight into the slowly building swell and very confused sea to finally arrive and find the spot.... flat flat ground all around and BINGO oasis! 2.5m rough corally rise the size of a house cooooooovered in fish..... was mayhem for another 45mins of bustoffs and landings on pinkies up to 80cms 1 big sambo and other odds and ends... again the light stick outdid the heavy gear besides the fact of gettin stiched by a couple... ice box looked very nice by then and decided to try once more on another lump b4 heading back....

did 2 drifts over the next lump and boy was the dhuies hungry... bang bang 2 hookups YESSSS! bang bang stiched in the coral.... C****Ts very nice fish.... did it again the dhuies had moved but got a nice blackbum and baldie....

very happy with the results finally have some fish in the fridge and weather was ok....

end tally - 2 dhuies kept 12 & 13kgs 6 released all went down good besides 1 -which got date raped by a small mako

                a heaaaaaap of pinkies from just legal up too 88cms took 4 home for dinner

                1 blackbum 1 baldie and  sambo which was released

hope u enjoy sorry for no pics me cam got wet and i wasnt impressed.... maybe a good omen but so never mind :-)