Full moon is seldom kind to me when it comes to fishing and I would often do better howling than fishing at this time of the month.  With windows of good weather few and far between, especially over weekends it seems, I had to capitalise on the forecasted fair conditions on Saturday.  Regular fishing mate Glen was up north shooting pigs and I knew that the conditions would be dicey for some of my other fishing buddies with lighter stomaches, so solo it was to be.

I launched at sunrise and made my may west in somewhat sloppy conditions.  At one stage I stopped to check my weather app and realised that they had got it wrong - again, but what the heck, I was out and had to make the best of it.  By the time I reached my favourite fishing grounds I was the only boat out there and was wondering whether the other boaties knew something that I did not know.  I did a bit of bottom bashing releasing a few smallish demersals before noticing birds hitting surface baitfish.   This prompted me to change tactic and tow a couple of lures behind the boat.  After about 45 minutes of towing a Richter Dorado skirted lure on the one rod and a Halco Laser Pro 160 on the other rod I had a double hit and had fish on both rods.  After landing and snapping both the tuna I was off again and it did not take long to land another tuna.  I decided to stop trolling and to rather cast a lure at the tuna for a different fix.  I introduce a Fish Inc Right Wing 120mm Stickbait to the second school of tuna that I found and was immediately into the fourth tuna for the day.  

Satisfied with the tuna time, I still wanted to get a snapper before heading home and decided to anchor up and burley.  Managed a few undersized snapper and a bloody shark on SP before landing a snapper of 53cm - mission accomplished!  I also managed to land the 5th tuna for the day on bait that was actually meant for snapper.  

Whilst at anchor I was twice smashed by something large that bricked me down below and had a feeling that the YTKs were around.  My last fish for the day ended up being a 105cm YTK which surrendered to my landing net after giving a decent account of itself - as they normally do.  Satisfied with the outcome I headed back to Woodman Point in rather challenging conditions.  I guess that I need to take back my words concerning fishing at full moon.

YouTube video of the action - https://youtu.be/58kD1LRmlp0

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