Just one of those days. You know those days where you get the biggest highs and lows at the same time?? Well that was exactly how it was today. After getting all the gear ready this morning and having breakfast we left for H2O, only to encounter a problem before we had even moved out the drive way!! Dad had forgotten to clamp the tow bar over the tow ball!! The Trailer had come off and snapped off both the lighting cables and brakes :( After some quick fixes which set us back a while, we were back on track and off to our destination!! 

 

After a 20 minute drive and a few risky manoeuvres for our newly "modified" trailer we pulled up to the Boat ramp, greeted by a fresh Easterly that filled our noses with the sea air. Its pungent smell was getting us excited!! We hurriedly pushed the boat off and smacked the motor against a pylon which caused a cracked plastic cover :( after we checked that out we bit the bullet of bad luck headed out there. We headed out, not expecting much as our "bad luck" usually has a snow-ball effect. We chucked the burley in and started setting ourselves up. You could see the Burley getting demolished by Skippy. Dad sneakily chucked a line over while i wasn't looking and got 3 in quick succession. I put my gear on, checked the camera and dived in. Beautiful clear waters filled my body, instantly sucking any breath i had out of me. I recovered quickly and started snooping around while Dad was still getting ready. I found a nice patch of sand and spotted a KG sucking up the sand and slowly mooching around. I wasn't sure wether he was sized so i just stuck to filming him. He had no interest in me what so ever so filming was pretty much canned straight away. Dad was still getting ready so i headed north of the boat into some more sandy ground and spotted a few undersize Dhuies which were really inquisitive. As i was coming up from a dive, i turned to see a good size KG just sitting there. I surfaced and kept an eye on him as he slowly headed towards a reef with a big hole in the middle of it. As i slowly studied its sleek body going backwards and forwards through this reef i finally took my opportunity and dived down. He came out of his hole, keeping his distance but still watching me intently. He came directly underneath me and sat on the bottom. I went to the right to get a better angle on him. He swum in the opposite direction in which i hoped for. He swam over to a boulder and turned broadside presenting a good shot at him. The shaft was launched free and plunged into the slippery skin of the Whiting. I quickly focused the camera on him as he struggled on the bottom. I was s excited, finally getting my first KGW!!!! I pulled him up and launched out of the water yelling to Dad about my fish while he was still in the boat!!! I swam over like a Hovercraft hydroplaning on the surface. We took a few happy snaps of the fish and then measured and chucked him in the icebox. He went 47cm and about 700-800grams.

Back in the water with Dad and we started looking around the place for some fishys. I spotted a Dhuie and started filming him, only to see dad dive down and plug him just as i had surfaced. The fish bolted under some ledges and went berserk. I filmed dad as he dived back down to secure his fish. Two awesome eating fish in the esky!! 

We pushed on and headed back to where i had shot my KG to see if he had any mates. I kept chasing some of the Skippy but they kept their distance.  I pushed through all the territory i had looked at before and headed North to some more broken bottom. Just as i surface i can hear dad screaming like a lunatic, as he usually does :D I swam over and seen he had a nice Blue-Spot Flathead on the end of his spear. He spoke of another one down there so i dove down with my eyeballs searching like sensors. I looked and looked but couldn't find the dam thing!! It wasn't until dad shown me where he had seen it take off that i found it, tucked right under a rock. I got super close ensuring a brain shot. Dad filmed the whole thing for me which i was pretty happy about!! We had some awesome fish under our belt and with the wind picking up from the East we packed it in upped the Anchor. We took a couple of pics before we took off.

Later on that day i managed to break dads Cray loop and stuffed something else up i think :D We still had some luck left, Dad got $2000 on a lucky horse at the TAB and gave me $50 :D Lots of highs and lows today, but as usual the benefits of Spearing far out weigh the problems we faced, sort of ;) I hope you guys enjoyed reading my report, thanks for having a look!! A video of todays trip can be seeen here-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWz0apJ_wVM

Cheers, Callum.