Weather was forecasted as a good day to be out on the water so I organised a mate to come out for a fish. Left the Point Perron boat ramp at about 6:30 in the morning to try a bash out deep. I had been mucking around on my fish plotter during the week and had marked a few contour lines in the 30-40's to try on our way out. Went over all three marks for no luck on the sounder. So thought about going to a few spots we had some luck on in the past. I could see a few reflections off of boat's windscreens way out deep but that's all I could see. On our way out, I came across a ledge which looked promising so I killed the enginge to get the bait out and rig up the rods. We went back over the mark and bombs away. There was stuff all wind so I didn't even have to put the sea anchor out. I put my baited rod in the rod holder and started flicking around my soft plastic. I saw that an unsuspecting fish had inpailed itself on my circle hook so I put my soft plastic rod down and ended up pulling in a 350ish mm Breaksea Cod. In the meantime, my mate had a decent hit and was slowing winding in his fish. I got the net out as it was clearly a bigger fish than my cod. Ended up pulling in a 600mm Baldie. I didn't even know you could catch them this far down.

I didn't take a photo of my fish at the time as it was clearly out classed by my mate's fish. After a few drifts over the same ledge with no luck, we decided to push on. More and more boats were now visible on the spot where we were heading. We finally hit our mark and there were shit loads out there. And there had been a lot of cray pots dropped on the ground since I had been there in 16kn southerlies a couple of weeks ago. We both lost our rigs on the first drift to the great land mass known as Australia so we re-rigged and went out another 10kms to the 80's. Looked like not too many other boats were having much luck either as they also were moving out deeper. We got out to a spot only to find that the currents were to much to hold bottom with 16oz sinkers so we started head back into the ledge to give it another crack. On the way back in, we came over some more ground that looked promising. First drift resulted in a 530mm dhu fish. On the second drift my mate got a small dhu which swum back down on it's own steam. While I was winding in my bait to make a move, I got nailed by a small sambo about 3/4 of the way up to the surface which was released. I went over the ground where we had lost our rigs earlier and there would have been about ten boats in the general area. I turned to my mate and said that we probably wouldn't have any luck as the area was being fished by others and he said that it all comes down to luck as to who catches a fish. So we dropped down on a lump and 5 minutes later I got slammed by a Pink Snapper. I have been trying to catch a pinky for ages that was sized as it was one of the fish that I haven't been able to tick off the list but now I can.

It ended up being a good day out on the water but it did start off pretty humid. We caught our bag limit and started heading in by 12:30. Now I've got a few more spots to try the next time I go out. Looking forward to trying the Baldie as I have never eaten one before.

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