After having a pretty lean year to date and not really catching a good demersal fish for quite a while, as well as having my jigging technique rubbished I was keen to break the drought.

We left the ramp at 6 and was at the first spot by about 7. The sounder was looking promising and on the first drift I got onto something that felt decent, with plenty of headshakes suggesting possibly a pinky. To my surprise when the fish surfaced it was a nice red coloured baldy of about 40cm or so which was my first baldy on a jig. After a few high fives the fish was dispatched and into the esky - drought broken!

We moved on to the next spot to some ground that has produced some great dhu's including a couple in the 90's to Chrisp and a fish around the metre mark to JohnF. The sounder was looking amazing, with what appeared to be a school of dhu's a few metres off the bottom. We set up the first drift and pretty soon it was a triple hook-up! Both John and Daz got their fish up easily, both undersize dhu's. Mine took a bit longer and after a decent fight a 65cm dhu was on deck.

We setup another drift and after a while I hooked onto something that felt solid. The next 10 minutes or so were pretty tense, with me getting line on the fish only for it to power back to the bottom, must have been touch and go for getting bricked at least 5 times. Eventually the fish was worn out, and a monster dhu was on the surface at 90cm and my new pb. We spent at least 5 minutes trying to revive the fish including swimming the fish with the motor running to no avail, the fight had taken its toll.

As we had just about filled the esky and got our boat limit of dhu's we headed off for some sambo action. Numerous fish were caught, including a few big ones before we lost the school. The weather had started to blow up a bit, so we decided to head in. All in all a great day's jigging!

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