Went up to Steep Point for a quick trip early in September. I know it's not the greatest time of year and we usually head up end of April early May but a mate of mine had never been up there and with his wedding day fast approaching thought it would be just nice to head up. My mate has done a bit of fishing around metro but had never been anywhere further north. So with the prospect of maybe picking a Mac or two we took off!

Explaining to him on the way up that a trip can have a lot of factors such as wind which we can do nothing about I said lets just get up and have a good time know matter what! Arriving at Denham the weather wasn't to bad and within two hours we were at blackies east, love that camp and it is always protected! With everything set up by 3 I said "lets get out for a quick troll" and off we went. Explaining the ways of trolling to my mate and setting the spread and drags i told him just to wait and here the amazing sound of a lure being hit and listening to a screaming drag! After a few minutes there drag went off with my mate not really knowing what to do i told him to push the lever to strike and hold on!

After a few minutes a small mac tuna was up at the side and released quickly. After another 20 minutes and not to much going on the drag went again and my mate was straight onto it like a pro and even decided to call it for another tuna. I warned him that a mac will sometimes come towards the boat. I was right and all of a sudden there was his first mac near the boat. Knowing it would do another bolt near the boat i suggested tio lighten the drag and let it go. Panic was on his face but i told him to relax and enjoy the fight and a couple of minutes later his first ever mac was on board with a massive sigh of relief and a grin from ear to ear!

The wind was sort of up for the rest of the week and still getting out for a troll almost everyday with endless amount of longtails being caught! I suggested tryimg a little rock around near our camp and chucking a few plastics and baits around. I did mention I had seen some big yellow tail kings around here and when we came over the edge there was six of these bruisers just cruising by! Before we could get ready they were gone. We went on to catch trevs, small baldies, yellow fin bream, snapper whuch were all great fun on 6kg!

All of a sudden out of the corner of my eye the kings were there again but with no bait on the hooks ang just been busted of with my plastic i just chucked my 2 4/0 ganged together in front of them and twitched like mad! Three twitches and the hooks were only a few meters away. One of the kings peeled off and to my absolute shock it engulfed the hooks. I thought this would be a very short fight but it went the right way and a round the small bommie right in front of us. I clambered up the rocks and walked about 100m until i got down the beach in front of the camp!

The next problem was the boat! I managed to get it around the boat by going out and around. 30 minutes later this YTK was on the shore and is by far my best landbased capture! 2-4 Strudwick sofbodz and 6kg fins braid, 40lb jinkai and two 4/0 ganged! I was pretty happy!

The rest of the week was a great experience for my mate and he can't wait to get up there again! We managed snapper, squid, tailor, spanglies, black snapper and the odd pesty nor west blowie! The only downer of the week was busting the tip off the end of the strudi on a 60+ tailor which i was devastated about after its performance earlier in the week. April is booked though and we will be back again!