Well its that time of the week when Claire and i have some days off from work together. So do you plan a nice romantic picnic...ahh bugger that...lets go fishin!

Hit the water at 0530, as we wanted to get a few drifts in at one of our close spots. Had to do this, before all the weekend fishers come out of the wood work from there offices..and follow you around as they cant find there own spots. It was a great morning on the water.

We did 2 drifts and i pulled up a nice goldie and Claire some saddle tail. We then took of up to Bustard.. one of the islands north, to have a poke around. Found some nice ground, but only trickie snapper where hanging out there. So with the bottom being quiet, we tied on the lures. It wasnt long until i had hooked up to something. Now there isnt to many people that can tell people they have caught a seasnake on lure, but today i ticked that off my list.

We then headed back south down to Conexion island, as the nor easter was starting to pick up. Claire was on skipper duties, and while she was trolling along, found a nice lump on the sounder, that was worth a fish. We stopped and pulled in the lures. Baited up and drifted Claires new secret spot. Well what do you know, Claire has hooked up onto a nice sized saddletail. As you will notice in the photo, we are about 100m from shore in 19m of water.

We then flicked some lures around some coral bombies, trying to find a trout for tea. Nothing was biting, so we decided to call it a day. We had a relaxing day out, and now all was left to do, is Claire to clean the fish....yes she has been trained!