Hasn't been many posts on here lately. Maybe everyone is put off by all the recent posts about metro marlin, and let's face it, this ain't anything like that, but anyway.,.

Went out early Sunday for some bottom bashing. Went to one of my usual spots and there was not a single show on the sounder. Thought I'd have a go anyway and after a while got mauled by skippy. I think they are great bait so wasn't too upset. After that it slowed down so put the rod in the rod holder and went to fillet up a skippy. Before I could start the rod was getting bites so picked it up and hooked up solid to a nice fish. After the characteristic dhuie surges up came a nice 12.5kg dhuie. Not a bad start for 6:07 am.  Not long after the floating line went off and after a bit of a tussle I got bitten off by what I am pretty sure was a mackie. Bugger! I don't like using wire trace for them because I don't think they eat the bait as often, but interested to know other peoples thoughts?

Anyway, not long after up came a sized baldie. It wasn't in a good way so no release for him and into the bag for a bag out by 6:30.   Didn't want to head in so decided to troll to find some new ground. After a while I was reasonable close to one of the fads so headed over and to my surprise there was no one else there. Dropped a bait back and before I could turn around it was on. Over the next hour and a half it was about a fish every 5 minutes, sometimes two at once which was chaos on my own, especially when a bird flew into the line and got tangled up with a fish on the other end! They weren't big fish, but they'd have to be one of my favorite fish to catch. Kept a couple of them and then cruised back in with perfect conditions.

Stopped off for a bit closer to shore to clean the boat and - first time ever - got boarded by fisheries to check my catch. Before they came on board I asked them if they wanted to come on board to measure my fish. Once they got onboard and I opened the bag they decided they didn't need to bother  measuring

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