Hi all,

As promised im finally sitting down with my makers n coke and chuckin together a rough report from my recent trip to Shark Bay.

Been planning a trip with one of my best mates for some time and finally it all came together - time off and the long range forecast looked good. Battle stations where manned - shopping done - new spear guns bought and spears sharpened. The day slowly drew nearer and Richo arrived from perth keen as dijon mustard.

Packed the boat after work saturday night and after a few games of darts and the accompanying beers it was bed time for a 4am get up. The alarm was like a gunshot to the head but straight into it with the kettle boiled , car warmed and the servo soon pulled into for a pie OJ (beaut 415am brekky that!) and some fuel. Hit the overlander 3hrs later and the steep point road not long after. The day was a craker! Not a cloud and noooo wind.

Pulled into Tamala Station to pay the rent and soon had the tyres lowered and his the sand , arriving at Giraud Pt soon after minus the quick detour looking for the lost UHF arial.

Greeting us was a glass off and after setting up camp rather quickly we had the boat wet and our suits on! First stop seen a few tuskies sighted but nil shot so moved off to new ground - BIG tailor where in abundance (700mm upto 1m shark bay monsters!) so we took one small 650mm for burley and continued on spottin some nice black snapper ( too elusive and a swag of small bluebone along with HUGE yellowfin bream. The tide was very low and i can only think that kept the big tuskers out of the closer in spots. Continued hunting for new spots without much success - spotted a few squid from the boat , filmed a big dugong and did some practice dives on a deep channel that held nothing but sand n weed. Late arvo we moved onto one of my better spots where id swum with big humpy head pinks previously. Unfortunently they are off limits so still to shoot one. This time a big tusker was spotted straight off but he made the smart move of heading south at first sight of this wetsuit cladded thingymebob. A few minutes later i had a longgg shot at a horse but missed high and the fish departed - devostated was the word i thought of but not wat come out of my mouth many times as i reloaded and continued... 5mins later i came across another thumper attempting to hide deep in the weed. Took a lonnnnng shot and the rest was history! Stoned without the flopper penetrating. Perfect shot and the runs where on the board. Met up with dave and hightailed it back to camp with 2 in the eski 59cms and 73cms... Not a bad start..

Next morning we woke to a feather light easterly - MINYONG.... Break had and gear sorted we hit the frog n toad to a spot i had. This time straight onto fish.... Tuskies darting in and out of the weed everywhere... Just a question of being patient and finding something decent. Hard to say when dave dove before i even had my gear on and nailed his first for the day at 600mm. PRICK! Gear on while he dealt with that and dove straight onto a nice fish... Bullseye 1 all....

With 2 in the boat and 2 to go we moved onto another spot leaving a heap for next trip. I got another smaller model straight up and abit of moving was required to find dave his 2nd for the day which he finally spyed and nailed from above smashing it with a spine shot and into the esky went his best for the trip at 68cms. During the run back to camp the cloud bank that had been building up during the day started to show its true colours and a rough 20-30mm of rain was to fall during the night and early morning. Didnt stop us from visiting a small limestone island late arvo to throw some gulps around for the big yellowfin bream and small pinks that abound the shallows... Great fun on the 2kg spin sticks!

The last morning was wet and camp was packed inbetween squals and rain storms... didnt look good.... but we wanted a final dive before heading home. Moved spots back down the coast to save a long boat trip and by then the water had glassed off again! beaut.... Set up a makeshift cover for the fridges and gene and hit the water... Unfortunently leaving the camera safely on the front of the car -

Arrived at another spot i call the 2 rocks and our limit of 4 tuskies was speared over the course of about 2.5hrs diving. Also shot a nice Black Snapper which was a first... Fish of the trip was taken here and it was also my last for the trip. Id spied a thumper free swimming in the distance but it done the harold holt before i could get close enough. Dave had also spyed a thumper and this one had holed up under a big ledge. Quick look revealed a huge Green head and massive set of jaws... Yep horse!

Dave went done and bang.... I dove for extraction  only to find the shot had missed and the fish ready to pissbolt!... Nah argh - smack straight thru the gills and he was ours...  Very close to 10kgs of Blackspot was ours and our mission complete....

Great weather - great mates - great fish and we both got home safe and sound with a good feed of fish.... FANTASTIC....

And now the missus is jelous and wants to go - hrrrrrm looks like ill be Heading Back to the Bay..... Sounds good to me

Hope you enjoy guys

Poddyfish