I've had family over from NSW since Boxing Day and fair dinkum hasn't the weather been average for playing offshore tour guide?! As you would have it the weather came good on the day they were due to go home so we pushed their flight back and I threw a sickie to get out on Monday. First on the agenda was to check the pots which we hadn't been able to get to for the last 6 days due to the poor weather. Touch wood I've been lucky with my pots with just a float being chopped (easily found as rope was dog boned) and what I think what was a diver raid as 2 days prior we bagged out with all pots having crays then after a 2 day soak with the following pull resulting in many an empty pot. All of them are in the one area with no sign of relocation, one pot had the gate pulled wide open and bait lid wide open as well. There were divers on the lump so it's my best hypothesis. Anyhow we pulled 11 crays by 8:30am of which 3 were jumbos. This was a PB as we've only managed 1 jumbo max a haul. It appears the whites have moved on now but feel I've had my fill and will probably pull the pots out in the next fortnight before my luck runs out.

The tourists were keen to see Rotto so over we went in favourable seas to parakeet bay where they got some snorkeling and swimming in as well as a nice "expensive" lunch in Geordie Bay. The kids wanted to go on the inflatable water park in South Thompson so we ducked around and dropped them and the girls off and the brother in law and I headed back around off the Basin to burley up. Within minutes we had Skippy in the burley and had a blast on light gear  floating slightly weighted mulies. We had half a dozen and wanted to get to 8 before 4pm before heading home. We had a 3kg and a 4kg outfit floating. I picked up skippy #7 on 4kg and the 6'6" brother inlaw had his bait taken right on the buzzer and was into an tough fight on 3kg. 10 mins later we had a 45cm breaksea on board.

What a great day, I was able to get the tour guide thing out of the way and managed to get a few days feed for all of us as well.  We were home in time to eat the blackarse and some skippy along with crays in a carbonara style dish my sister whipped up.

After reading a previous post I purchased a vac sealer from Oceanside and would have to say seeing that Skippy isn't the best fish to freeze, vac sealing takes the pressure off having to eat them so fast. I'm able to get a couple of extra days which gives you something to look forward to through the week.

Thanks for listening and to my boss thanks for understanding :)

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