Weekend before last I was lucky enough to be invited onto the boss' boat moored just off Lizard Is in the Great Barrier Reef. We flew to Cairns then got a transfer to the island. We were staying on the mothership and the boss was driving up in his game fishing boat. Unfortunately he didn't get there until the afternoon before we left so we didnt get to go out and chase marlin. Now is BIG marlin season up there.

Not to matter we still got to out on his 'tenders' and chase fish. We managed to pick up some spanish and scaly mackerel, GTs, barracuda, coral trout and other reef fish. What a great trip, the crew on board treated us like kings and we got to eat some of our catch.

The scaly macks were going to be used by the boss to troll dead baits for marlin so hopefully he will get one on the baits I caught for him and give mea big fat bonus Believe me going up there for 4 days was more than bonus enough! What a great trip. Cant wait to get invited again (I hope ).

I guess I should get off my arse and do some work instead of being on this website all day.

I also got to go swimming with a manta ray which was bloody awesome and we got to hand feed some sharks and GTs off the back of the boat. What an amazing show these fish put on. Unfortunately we were moored in a green zone so couldnt drop a lure over the side of the mother ship and get stuck into the GTs. There were some massive ones there. Everytime a GT would score one of the fish frames a nasty big whaler would come out of the depths, chase it around and either get the frame or the GT. We saw quite a few GTs swimming around with chunks missing out of them.

Gus