Hit the water at 830 from woodies, headed out between GI and Carnac. As the swell was so low I risked anchoring shallow in amongst the reefs and started burlying. All was quiet for the first hour then started getting hits on the PE3 outfit but no hook-ups. Changed to the light gear (Nitro distance spin 2-4kg / Stella FE 3k Pe1) using small gang hooks and white bait. Instant hook up and it had some grunt in 3 metres of water. Soon had a very solid skippy of about 30 cm, they go hard in shallow water and was great fun to catch. Spent the next hour catching and releasing skippy up to 35cm. Best session ive had on them in years. Then I hooked something a bit bigger that had the rod locked up and the little reel shedding line at an alarming rate. Had the drag as heavy as I dared and just stopped it before it reefed me. Then a long slow fight with the fish seeming to take 20 - 30 meters of line whenever I thought I had it done. Finally got it to the net.... a little rat sambo of about 50-55 cm. awesome fun. Released the sambo and went back to the skips but a 4ft bronzie decided he would move in and that was the end of the skippy. Was contemplating what to do next when a massive bust up 40 meters from the tinny made up my mind for me, lucky I had set up my tailor/salmon outfit (nitro magnum butt/branzino )and quickly cast a waxwing into the turmoil, flipped the bail over and I was on. wasn't long before I had a fat salmon in the net. Quickly fired another cast out to where the school was and two turns on the handle saw the waxwing smashed by something with a bit more grunt that a salmon. After about a 5 min fight in amongst the reefs and bommies out comes a very respectable 45-50 cm skippy. First time I have caught one on lure. Quickly released it and went hunting for the salmon for about half an hour with no luck before heading in. All in all a great little sesh.

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