Gents,

Just a quick and dirty report....

Just got back yesterday from a quick dash up to Steep

Left work at 4pm on Thursday,
Drove into Steep Friday morning and had a quick cast before sundown after setting up camp and a few drinks...
Saturday was our only full day of fishing.....
Sunday was a morning fish and in the arvo after plenty of sitting around talking about packing up, we packed up and drove out late arvo.
Back to perth late morning on Monday.

So all in all 2 half days and 1 full day fishing.

The reason for such a short trip, and not our usual 7-14 day trip, was may Mate's 11 year old son joined us and we weren't sure he'd cope with the location.

We ballooned and threw lures as normal, with a few hours bottom bashing to give our casting arms a rest.

To say we killed it I think is an understatement - we bagged out (all but a couple of kilos, that I'm very confident we would have got too if we'd fished the arvo of the last day, but we'd had our fill).

Our biggest session landed 7 mackies in very short succession, but the bites were consistent all day sat and continued sun morning - lost count of total mackies landed!

One of the guys from a diff group commented "you know your shit doesn't stink when you nail them in the tail" after I fouled hooked a decent sized Mackie after it smashed the bait, but didn't hook up, only to jagged itself in the tail.

+Biggest mack was over 30lb most were between 18-22lb

+++also landed a sailfish, and my mates 11 year old son caught his first Mackie (with not too much help) plus several bottom fish.

................insane few days to say the least.

+only lost 3 hooked fish (all at the gaff).
+NO SHARKS!!!
+NO FLYS!!!
+NO SUNBURN!!!
+and the wind blew the right way all but a few hours on Saturday mid-day.

Stars all lined up

+All mackies caught on balloon
+none caught on spin - if fact only got 3 hits on spin the whole time.

+Storm Gars and Snook used under the balloon.