Checked out the ocean from the top of Whitehills this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see flat seas, so we finished packing the boat and hit the Dawesville ramp at 8am. Headed out to the 19 fathom bank and enjoyed a very flat trip out there.

We set up the sea anchor and drifted over a couple of marks I had...even with the anchor, the drift seems fairly steady. Had the sounder dialled in on manual to 6m and the other half of the screen on bottom lock....the images we were seeing reinforced the previous catches from the coords we had.

Plenty of bites and lost fish, due to a bit of inexperience but we managed to land a couple, much to our delight.

The final tally was:

1 gurnard (released)
3 undersize pinkies ranging from 30 - 35cm (released)
1 breaksea cod - 45cm, which we enjoyed tonight
1 flathead & 1 large sand whiting - these are on the menu tomorrow night!

If the undersize pinkies fight like they did, I can't wait to get into a sized one...boy, they were fun to catch.

Hope everyone else who ventured out today caught a feed.

Back at the ramp at 4.30pm and was greeting by the fisheries guys who came over for a chat and a look in the icebox...showed them my licence and skipper's ticket and off we went. Good to see them out there....they're only doing their job.

Turns out we got upstaged by my son and his mate fishing from our 4m runabout off Leeman.....their tally was 1 jewie, 2 pinkies and 1 baldie!!!

regards
rusty...