With new staff coming in from Perth to Broome i befriended one of the new teachers and i quickly worked out he could fish and its alway nice to have people on your boat who know what there doing so we launched out from Town beach after collecting a few livies with the option of going to Dampier creek if it got to rough as soon as we were heading out around the groyne i saw a barra chasing mullet on the edge of the current line so i motored around while Chris was throwing a hard body around. With the wind picking up i decided to anchor and put some livies out it didnt take long to get the first run but to my disapointment it was just a 60cm queenie. So moving on decided to have a look at the moorings in the bay for triple tail. It was blowing 23 knots westerly and swell was about 2.5 metres really got to test my new decky to see if he would be coming out on further trips. It took until the 3rd mooring to get as hit he dropped a cranka crab right ontop of the fish loaded up and there goes his $25 lure the 20lb leader had no chance.

So i suggested puting on a 3/0 circle hook and a small mullet re-drifted and on again well i had to hold the boat in reverse at about 3 knots with waves crashing over the back, The fish shook its head and the hooked pulled out so another livie goes on and another whack this time it was away from the structure and a high 40's triple was almost boat side then spat the hook. Had to try the last mooring because the fishing shutdown on that particular mooring, after 3 attempts on again and straight around the mooring rope. Tried to drive around and get it out then a big wave pushed us into the mooring and crushed the rod inbetween the boat and mooring with out tails between our legs headed into Dampier creek to restock on livies and shelter. Got a heap of gardies and found a spot ended up with 3 small sharks and small barra that Chris dropped boat side and few other runs that were dropped.

All in all a good night and will be going to the tackle shop to restock.

Watch this space for more snapped rods and eventually the bucketlist fish for 2018

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