Just returned from 2 weeks in Germany early saturday morning, and was hanging to get out for a fish.

Called Scano and another mate and had organised for an early afternoon run out towards rotto.

On the water and moving by about 2.30pm and stopped off in the sound to see if there were any squid, managed only 2 in about 20 minutes.

so we moved on out towards our rotto location which has been growing everytime we head out with more and more ground found. the 2 metre swell made for some fun in the console getting a bit of air on the way out.

Yesterday was no different with the drift in a slightly different direction. We reached our spot then began to rig up and prepare the boat. By the time we had finished the sounder had lit up and we had drifted onto a new lump.

So down went the lines, and it was an instant hookup, albiet only smallish pinks around 35-40cm, swallowtails, small BB's and 1 small dhu.

So a few more drifts and things were still showing smallish fish. By this time we had setup a small comp onboard, which 2 of the guys still using mono for bottom bashing, and scano and myself using braid....this was a mistake!!

As it panned out the mono bashers did well, all in the space of 20-30 minutes.

Mick with his first dhu up around 10-11kgs. This thing took a whole freaking slimey mackeral with a small 5o pinned through its eye!!! all ass if you ask me!!!!

Mick again i think of the next drift with his 2nd fish a nice pink....and would you believe it another whole scaley pinned through the eye!!!!

Then the other bloke using mono who had been out with me a few times before had struggled to get into any fish. Well he did manage a nice little shark which he was stoked with and gave him a good run around.....even if it was on mono!!!

Few more smaller pinky's more swallow tails, and another small dhu saw out the end of the day, nice way to spend a saturday arvo on the water with good conditions, especially in metro waters!