Leaving from Jervoise Bay about 5.30am, had my father in-law on board as deckie & we were all set to bottom bounce around carnac, hoping for a few pinkies.

The old man was a shocker. Armed with his Penn 750 O/H, he dropped down his 100lb wire trace pre rigged with paternoster, 2x 3oz snapper leads & 7/0 hooks, baited with cut up pillies. Then it started, as soon as he got a touch, he ripped the rod so hard, that if it wasn't for a loose drag, even a bronzies jaws would have ripped clean out of his skull!

It was terrible, touch after touch if he didn't smash his rod tip on the bimini 3ft above him (he's only about 4ft tall) you could here the zzzzz as he ripped line from his spool.

After an hour of my gentle advice & tips, I had only landed some perch/wrasse looking things (will post pics to find out what they are), he had foul hooked in the gut at least 6, & 1 35cm pinkie,I decided to pull pick & try a new tactic as he wasn't improving.

We steamed over to the Nth side of GI, where I threw the berley bucket in to attract herring & gars. Arming the aquatic dentist with a small abu 2000 loaded with 3kg line, I showed him how to rig a #10 hook on float & bait up with wogs.

Worked a treat, after pulling hooks out of a few fish, & watching me pull in gar after gar, he started to learn finness, & catch some fish! It was like watching a kid learn to fish, start with the basics & if they're catching then they're happy, & the father in law was grinning like the proverbial cat. All up we landed 50gar & half a dozen decent size herring as well as educated on the difference between angling & fishing.

An eduacation on cleaning the catch was another ball game, but managed to score some nice butterfly fillets, as well as bait for next trip

I've bought him the mag "how to catch a fish", as he now believes that by targeting a particular species, you have more chance than just throwing a line in anywhere.

Next trips lesson: you don't always need wire trace, & that big hooks = big fish, small hooks = all fish