Went down to Quindalup for a weekender, 13-15 July, at a friends beach house. You cant beat free accom 

Saturday morning, the weather didn't look the best but that stretch of bay is pretty well protected so we figured we'd have a quick go at catching our dinner. Plus I'd just bought a couple of new squid jigs and was keen to get them wet. We figured a two pronged approach would be a safer bet to get a feed, so we dropped half a dozen crab nets over the side of the tinnie then left them to go chasing the slimey-squirters.

Word of advice, prolly best not to experiment with a knot you've never tied before when attaching your new jig! So I waved good bye to the first of my new jigs after 10mins of fruitless fishing and got the boys to drop me back at the beach to run back to the house and get the other one (who knows why i didn't bring them both but it was a short walk anyway). Meanwhile the lads picked up a couple of the girlfriends from the beach (for luck) and went back out to check the nets. The nets had been in the water maybe 25mins? but the blue mannas had wasted no time in having a go at picking at the spleen. Every net had 2-3, and on average one of those were size, so the first pull had us a crab each. It wouldn't be dinner but certainly a tasty snack, and it was enough to keep the motivation going in the drizzle.

I hopped back in the tinnie with new jig #2 securely tied and we went for round 2 with the squid, this time with results. Didn't take long before we were getting ourselves covered in the dark sludge that they shoot at you with deadly accuracy. Laughs all round as we took it in turns to get inky muck on our clothes and faces, pulling them out of the water. Dinner was served.

We did a couple more pulls of the nets with some more squidding in between until we were satisfied that everyone would be well fed for dinner. Returned the house, warmed up in front of the fire, then enjoyed a huge feed of calamari and chilli crab for dinner.

What a great weekend, need more just like it