G'day everyone,

Well after trying to get a spaniard in the metro area for a few weeks now without succes I decide to do a quick trip upto jurien bay for friday arvo/saturday morning. Me and a mate arrived up there friday arvo around 4:30 and had the boat in the water by 5 heading out into slightly choppy ocean. Being in a 5m ally runabout there was a fair bit of banging but we were both pretty keen for an arvo troll so we continued on. As we got to some deeper water out near where the reef drops off we set out a few lures and began trolling. bout 10 minutes past when we seen a group of birds diving so we turned and headed in there direction when the orgasmic sound of a reel screaming sent us from cool and calm to panic and mayhem! After fighting the fish for 3 or 4 mins we got our 1st look and couldnt believe our eyes, a big dolly lit up 5m's from the boat, the heart raced as we got it closer and finaly within gaffing distance. My mates never gaffed a fish before so when he swung it like an axe and tapped the fish on the head it went nuts and off for anouther run. This happend 3 more times until we finaly got it into the boat. STOKED!!!

Measured 1100 to the fork and 11kg's on my non calibrated scales. Great fish and a 1st for me anyway. Oh and in 18m's of water!!

Heart still racing and in disbelief we set the lures again and within minutes had an 11kg spanish mackeral in the boat

Sorry about my mates strained face, the mackie went alot harder then any mackie ive seen for its size!

So we set began to set the spread again but before my mate could put the 2nd rod in the holder he was on again but handed the rod to me coz he was still sore from the last fish. a few moments later we had another smaller spaniard of around 8kg's on board.

The sun was getting low now and the tummies were rumbling so we headed in feeling pretty proud of ourselves and still amazed about what we had just caught.

The next day we decided we had got our pelagic fix so we headed out in search of some tastey bottom fish. A nice calm ocean and no wind ment we had almost no drift out in 50m's. We found some new ground which looked to be flat coral so we stopped the boat and had a drop. instantly we got a few tiny nibles, but not to be fooled i gave it some ilne and waited patiently and then felt a solid tug and was on. Up came a nice pinkie of 60cm's. Another drop and me and my mate were both on at the same time and a nice pair of baldies hit the deck. we decided to mark the spot and leave it for another day and look for some new ground. We came across a cray pot so couldnt resist having a quick sound around it. More nice flat coral with a bit of a flare up so we stopped the boat and sent down the baits. Almost to the bottom when i spotted 3 dollies cruising around the cray pot rope so i put my rod in the holder and grabbed the light rod rigged with a small placcy which i always have loaded and ready "just incase". Polaroids on and a precision cast and 1 of the dollies nailed it! A few jumps and some dodging of the cray pot rope and we had a litle dolly onboard. We picked up a nice black ass and the decided to cruise in with a few lures in tow.

Sorry bout the kill pick but my camera died so couldnt take any picks until i was home.

So a great trip with a pb dollie for me and few new pb's for my mate and ear to ear smiles the whole way home. Well worth the trip up and cant wait to get back up there. A big thanks to Whitty for the hot tip on where we mite bump into some mackies, ur a legend mate!! Thanks for reading :)

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