Felt like going jigging, but unfortunately no one was out heading out for sambos, so Brenz and I decided to head out with bluejuice and jig anyways.

With alveys with heavy mono lining the starboard, we headed to the back with our PE2 and 3 jigging gear.
I dropped a shout jig down which promptly got smashed and pinged on the reef straight away. Must find a new source of these.

Rerigged up with a zest and not too long after landed my first demersal on a jig. Great eating size of 58cm and 3.2kg, and a great first demersal jig catch. First fish onboard too (if you dont count a norwester)

Managed to find a school of what we thought were sambos so we send down some bigger jigs on heavy gear. I hooked up to something that went on a big run before the line snapped. The leader was completely frayed and bitten off so likely a shark. Brenz hooked up to a sambo but dropped it. On the second drop, a massive hit, lots of drag, then bitten off by another shark. We went around and tried with some wire, but no bites this time.

Jigging

Everything seems to take jigs, even smaller fish like Sgt bakers, wrasse, scads, small swallowtail, and even this scorpion cod Brenz landed

Tried some octa jigs and octa/bait combos but didnt get any hits. 

Brenz got this good sized queenie on a driftbait

I really wanted to get a pink snapper as I havent caught one on any kind of jig, so after jigging a few more spots, this pinkie happily obliged . 73cm and 4.1kg and a fun fight on light line

Also managed to get a skippy on a jig

And a surprise catch, this bonito

Not too many fish landed on board for the boat, though a great 7 and 14kg dhuie were pulled up as well as another queen snapper, a blackarse, a swallowtail and another pinkie. Oh, and some eels :p

The jigs proved to be effective as I hooked up first and ended up catching the most fish, all on jigs on 20lb gear. Great fun