Well after commiting to huggy to take him and 2 mates out jigging the morning had arrived and we were all pumped and ready to go.

Got the the Hillaries boat ramp to find it suprisingly empty, launched at around 5:30 and started the hour long journey to the southern barges off rotto in search of a few sambos.

First spot had a few fish on it and first one up was a good fish around 18kg, a tag went in and was measured and released.

Then a heap of smaller rats came thru. Again we tagged them and released them.

among huggys super catch.

We then decided to head the the northern grounds around 12 mile away, finding huge schools of dolphins around and both mills and blue juice already on the mark jigging up a few fish, with a couple of weired people on one of the boats yelling out once when we were hooked up "go mako" LOL, suspect a couple of fishwrecked members on the boat .

The fish were more on the go here and a bit bigger, first drop resulted with a 4 way hook up.

picked up a nice leather on the jig on a bozo, plan was to get a decent fish on one for the comp

after the leather jacket was thrown on ice, it was back into it and finally a good sambo, the biggest of the day for us, going 1200mm forck lenth and estimated high 20's

On a note, we had to use the release weight on a couple of our fish, theres nothing worse than seeing one float off, then we spotted a fish floating that was thrown over from one of the 2 charters in the area, so over we went and picked it up and used the 80oz release weight to get it down, not once did we see either charters use a weight, this fish was a bruiser too, hopefully it survived.

All in all a good day hunting and finding , getting a few new spots and getting onto some good fish and christening some shimano bling.

Certainly looking forward to the next jig.