Took the father in law and 2 mates out from Two ROcks yesterday on what would have to be one of the nicest days on the water I have had off Perth. Bit of wind in the morning but the rest of the day was Mint. Day started off pretty slow, despite getting to spots early and burleying, my pinky drought continues. We lost one very large fish due to going too hard but I would think it was a XOS Sambo, but results later in the day puts doubt in my mind. Went out to the 40m and started to get some better showings. Drift was perfect, and we picked up a couple of good KG's one going 58cm the other 55. In hindsight we should have stayed around there and downsized our hooks as we were getting good bites but kept dropping fish on 4/0 upwards.

Kept heading out wider as the day was getting better and found a very good lump that was not marked on GPS rising to 30m from 40 in a narrow ridge. Got a really good hit first drop and it was on for young and old. Was using my new light driftbait outfit (thanks Ryan and Honsu) and thought I had hooked the mother of all Dhuies or a big ray. 10 minutes later I was calling it for a Ray as even on light gear I figured a Dhuie would have given up. Any way, after another 5 minutes and a heap of big runs a beautiful Yellow Tail Kingie came into view. This has been my target fish for the year and i have had no luck, but to crack a 22lb one on light baitcasting gear was AWESOME. Sadly photos are non existant except shitty camera phone ones as my camera decided to give up last week.

Went further out and picked up a few big sambos on heavy gear and got some runs in a cube trail but could not hook up sadly.

We then picked up a nice Dhuie on the way back in topping what was a beaut day on the water, with a great feed of fish.

Having not eaten large YTK before I was super impressed, we spiked and bled it on the spot and put it in an ice slurry and the flesh was better than any Sushi place I have seen. Was even better than the KG and on par with the Dhuie.

Can't wait to get out again, now that I have a bit of a spot for them, and try using some east coast live squid methods and try for a really big one.

The other thing that was funny about yesterday is that we didn't catch any real rubbish fish, whilst we didn't catch a lot, what we got were all good fish.