After an early start we left Freo to try and get into some of the salmon around Rotto... With plenty of bait and birds smashing into the ocean all around us we were pretty confident, but after many km's of trolling didn't manage anything....

We decided to go deep and hit the 100m mark - first drop of the jig and I got a little skippy and we thought it could be a good day.... For the next hour or two we boated another skippy or two, with three guys using bait and me working the forearms and jigging all morning... 

Each drift took us in a different direction with the currents moving all over the place... A change to bait by myself, wind picking up and another change of direction in the drift over some good ground immediately resulted into a triple hookup - a little dhuie for me, a nice skippy and a big fish hooked next to me.... The result a nice mulloway of about 16kg... 

 Following the mulloway we went back and hoped to drift in the same direction, with the sounder coming alive... A change to jig and a nice little sambo immediately hooked on and landed (and released)...

The next few drops resulted in amberjack as a small school of fish moved onto the lump... great fun to catch! A local favourite sportfish for me...

Good day on the water with a small tuna picked up trolling back in to round out the day...