Evening All,

Well on Saturday I took up Mick from shorecatch's public service offer (free) to shred some fish bodies that have been taking up real estate in the chest freezer... missus not happy no space and everything smells like fish. At Shorecatch by 830am with 20kgs of assorted fish frames and heads that were going in the bin as werent used for crabs in summer. Had a coffee and chat with Mick and look around the shop. Impressed with the quality of bait there and will definitely be back.

Put the fish in the shredder. Fortunate enough to also get to use the mixer to make the brew. Was out by 1030 and home to deep freeze 4x5L tubs of burly. With plan to test it out on Sunday with the good forecast.

Launched at 430am from Hillarys with a work mate... weather blowier than forecast and swell up. Make things worse the gps was playing up and not showing maps or breadcrumb trail. Navigated to near 3 mile in dark with navonics on the phone and sounder some fish.

Tested the burley at anchor with pillies, used 1ltr tub of burley. Did a factory reset on the lowrance and the maps came up then loaded the marks off the SD Card and very happy to say the least. Burley brought in a heap of bait and couple of squid at anchor but not much happening, changed spots and then drifted around til the sun came up but no luck.

Steamed out to the 30s and put the burley away to save it for sunset so try jigging metals and plastics. Uncomfortable condition and only got rat sambos. Start to feel a bit green but persisted. Came closer in to look for new spots and found a patch closer to Hillarys got 4 scorpion fish some wrasse and trumpeters. Weatger got better and better. Work mate had to go home to pick the kids up and another mate subbed in at Hillarys.

Straight back out to the spot on the 30s and set up with the rest of the burley around 1600hrs... looked like a good consistent trail in the sun of fish matter in the water column. About an hour before sunset that talica8 with occie on running sinker went off... 72cm pinkie. The mate got 3 undersize pinkies on his saltiga and release with the weight. I then got another 70cm model. Mate the got a 60cm one and was stoked. While I was helping with that rod buckled over and pulled my rail blazer rod holder down and  nearly lost the combo missed that one. Got a sambo after that. Then mate got a large skippy and then finished off with another 70cm model pinkie.

Steamed back at sunset... persistence paid off in the end. Good stuff that burley.

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