Gday,

After a recent repower of our old glass dinghy we headed out today in the arvo for a bit of a bash in the sound.  With NE/N winds we ended up inside Garden Island in the lee cracking for squid.  Ben landed about 5 to my one, then broke starter cord when attempting to restart drift.  Thus resulted in redoing the starter cord minus a few inches.  Thank god for tools kit onboard.  Restarted reset drift changed jigs BOOOM now me scoring 5-1 squid. We fish on another drift or two around 2:30 - 3 with slow going only 2-3 caught. 

We have to be home for 5:30 as Ben has a young daughter. So we think we have a feed of squid, may as well try over near sulphur rock with some tentacles for snapper.  We head over and someone else was on the rock so we stopped a while off on a contour and drop in with Ben fishing light for whiting/trevs and I send down a squid and half a herring caught on a previous trip.

Baits were being smashed left, right and centre with Ben landing about 30 wrasse in 11 mt.  I still couldnt hook up with a wrasse and squid.  Ben started landing small pinkies when the big rod on free spool was picked up.  We let it go for a while, then set drag low before engaging.  Straight off not much happened felt like we had a live bait on then a few head shakes.  After a short smooth fight up came a gummy.  STOKED!

Been a long time since the Priest has been used in our dingy, I was pleased to steal a recent Fishwrecked Quote: Welcome to the Club!

Bryan

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