Puerto Vallarta fishing report summer 2012

Summer time is here and the fishing is heating up in Puerto Vallarta Mexico.

During the months of June through October we have some of the best fishing in the world.

In the month of June usually around the 15 th . Of the month we get rains every day about 6 to 7 pm in the evening. This is a good thing as it cools everything off and creates superb fishing in and outside the bay.

Summer time fishing in the bay can produce a lot of action with bonita,yellowtail,tuna,mahi mahi and even sailfish. This is because the water temperature reaches about 80 deg. And stays there until the winter months roll around. There will usually be a trash line that is created from all the stuff that come out of the rivers here in Puerto Vallarta and surrounding areas. We have 5 rivers that feed into the bay here. Early morning fishing on this trash line can put ya on mahi mahi and selfish almost everyday. Be sure and have lots of live bait. Trolling with lures and sewn baits such as mullets work great as well. These bay trips are great for the families or someone looking to catch a trophy fish.

For those who are serious about catching the big one such as marlin and tuna summer is the best time be fishing the outside of the bay. With the water temperature around 80 deg. There are schools of bonitos everywhere and the marlin and tuna follow them here to Puerto Vallarta. Just out past the Maritas,Corbetena and El Banco are just a few of the places we fish for the big ones. Plan on a 10 to 12 hr day for the marlin and tuna trips. As you can see summer time fishing in Puerto Vallarta can not be beat so come on down and wet and line and have a cold one.

Two up coming tournaments July 12- 14 th for marlin and tuna, lot of prizes and money

Tight lines

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Awesome is the only was to discribe the day!!!

Went out off two rocks last week to a spot that has previously bought me fish home. Weather was ok but nothing great.

Took along two mates who dont really fish and had a all night bender the night before. One who's previous biggest fish was a herring.  Left just after sunrise and was back at the ramp by 12pm. Started off a bit tragic for one of the boys as we were only 2km out and already had a spew.

Got to the spot and nothing on the sounder but thought we might have a fish anyway. Had only two of us fishing now as the other bloke retired for the day without even wetting a line. He chumed up for us for the next 4 hours. NO MERSY RULE!!!!! Had my mate who doesnt (didn't) fish on the bait and me on a soft plastic.First drop my buddy says to me i am having bites but i have a curse so i wont catch anything. Then wham!!! struggles for around 10 mins and then emerges a nice 14kg dhu. Not bad for your first dhu!!!!! Took the photos then went back for another drift. My turn now bang a nice 60cm dhu. Photos then made the call to release him hoping it would be good carma.

Around again, Buddy gets a nice doubble header of dhu and baldie. Baldie in the esky dhu released.

Around again, carma is great. My plastic is slammed by something big. 10 min later a nice 13.5kg Dhu. Bagged out on Dhu thanks for comming!!!!!!!

Around again, double hook up dhuies again both 60 cm.

Around again, this was getting crazy now. my soft plastic got smashed by what felt like a fright train. 45 min later and with my arms now 6 inches longer a 30kg sambo appears on the surface. this is the most fun you can have on a boat. 20lb line on a saragosa 4000, t curve 5-10kg. doesnt get much better.

we went around for a few more drifts and pulled more dhu and a few small pinkies.All in total we got 9 dhu, 2 pinkies, 1 baldie and a sambo.

What a day. Catching fish is great fun but watching a rookie catch his first decent fish at the age of 30 and seeing his smile is GOLD. Thats what fishing is all about. Oh and watching you mate vomit all day while the fishing is fantastic is priceless!!!!!!!!  He is now hooked!!

Well Ive just purchased my first demersal jigging combo and decided to head out on saturday to test it out.We were on the water as the sun came up and it felt like minus 2 degrees,with a slight easterly breeze behind us we were siting on a comfy 22-24KN.We were lucky enough to get onto some nice dhuies,not as big as last week but still nice fish.We had to work hard for them because once the wind picked up it got rough as gutz.The combo I decided on was the new catalina 4000 rigged up with daiwa braid and a lemax slim max pe1-3 rod.Absolutly stocked with the new combo,reel is smooth as and the rod feels soft but has plenty off balls if that makes sense.I was on a mission to catch a bigger dhu than dirts horse from last week but wasnt to be.Once the wind picked up we found it impossible to hold bottom for any length of time so after 5 dhuies,and a couple of nannies we headed back in.The trip back in was horrid,straight back into a 15-20KN easterly from 34 Miles out.12Kn all the back in saw us hangin to get off the boat.Here are some pics of the effort.Will try to upload a vid of some of the action soon.

Had a very quick soft plastic sess late Saturday arvo with Daz and TimVB, at the Marina at 4pm so only got a few hours in, fished until fuly dark.

Just blind fished the 3 mile as no spots close to Hillaries, and after 30 minutes of nothing, was thinking it was a mistake but then the sounder lit up and we had 30 minutes of SNOOK madness. Two tripple hook-ups and many others, and as long as we kept one in the water, they stayed around the boat and we were watching them take the plastics......good fun! Daz caught a hooter, looked like a baracuda!

A few skippy were also caught, kep one for sashimi.......if you have not tried it, have a go.....best sashimi going IMO.

Then I got busted off on a nice fish after a 15 second battle....pinky or dhuie most likely. Then once it was totally dark, hooked up on a non glow, non scented placcy on the bream gear (retired the soft plastic outfit after getting bricked), and landed a nice just size dhu banger which gave me greif on the light stuff....man they hit hard.

Made a nice dinner tonite, skippy sashimi and baked dhuie.

after 6 months of planning and anticipation it was finally time to head to gero and out to the abrolhos islands. we arrived there thursday night to head out with saltwater charters the decision was made to steam off in the morning when the wind was a bit more decent so thursday night was filled with a lot of drinking and antics with craigo and ryan on the boat in the marina.

the next morning we steamed off early and it seemed the night before had taken its toll as there were many sick fisherman on board including myself! we dropped the lures out the back for a troll with no success so pulled in the spread and headed to the first spot. we were all so excited to see what this place had in store for us and on the first drop and it definately didnt dissapoint. myself and jc85 had a double hook up of coral trout which was a new species for both us so were pretty happy to say the least. after that it was chaos for the rest of the day catching fish after fish until the late afternoon on bait(yuk) soft plastic and jigs. we bagged out no worries and retired to a bbq of fresh fish and more beers. out went the shark rig with a coral trout head on a floater balloon and it didnt take long to pay off after a nice fight matt020 pulled in what we all expected to be a shark but turned out to be a nice cobia once surfaced.smiles all around was a good end to a first  day.

early start again the next day to steam out to a spot where the pinkies and baldies were eating everything we dropped in front of their face. i used soft plastic today for a change from my usual jigging. the outfit i was using for placcys was a jigwrex pe3 rod and stradic ci4 4000 with 15 pound line i was a bit worried about being undergunned but managed to land some nice fish including a nice trout and abig sambo near the 20kg mark which a was wrapped with and definately was my fish of the trip or was it? after some dramas withe the boat we ended up at anchor where we caught baldy after baldy for about 3 hours. i was up front casting wax wings at some birds when matt offered to get me a beer and handed me his rod. i casted the wax wing and decided i would let it sink for a bit before winding this time and it definately paid off as i hooked my pb coral trout and the biggest of the trip (photo underneath).

all in all we had an awesome trip and will definately return next year the the beautiful abrolhos islands. we would all like to thank and recommend saltwater charter for any trips to the abrolhos islands craigo and ryan did a great job of showing us this crazy place and fed us like kings for our stay there thanks guys.

here are a few photos from the trip

cheers sammy

Cold early start Meeting George ( able dog) Jody ,kevin,Gary We ,Launching at Two Rocks for first light.Wind was up a little with white caps ,we were heading out wide to the 80m for the day but once out 14 mile we stoped as conditions weren't the best .We had a drift over a small spot and were smashed by to rampaging Sambos.both around 20kg .Both released,moving to the next bit of ground and a couple of small dhuies were caught.then a couple of good baldies..We headed a little closer in and anchored on a lump until the wind dropped a bit ,Kevin hooked into a good fish the call was a sambo but on getting it in sight we noticed he had hooked a nice Spanish Mac around10/12 kg,now that was a surprise.Once the wind dropped we hit a small bit of ground and Jody and George hook up on plastics ,two dhuies around 4/5kg.then Gary hooked a nice dhu around 8/9 kg ,a nice black bum to finish the day and we headed home a great day on the water with great company.Thanks guys look forward to the nixed trip.Was raped with the boat used around 70 lt of fuel for the day.this is 20lt under what the haines used for the same trip .and she cut through the chop really well.Very happy chappy.

Hi

Here is a few pictures from a recent trip that good friend Mark and I did back in January

The trip was to Lake Cania which is in located Inland Central Queensland north of the town Monto

We had a heap of fun on bass and sarratoga in the couple of days we were there

hope you like the pics

Cheers

Brad

A nice little Dhuie for the weekend on the light gear.

Caught in the fifty on a glow macarthy 11''.4 oz head.

 Took the missus and kids for a squidding sess yesterday inside Garden island. Got on the water at around 9:30 beautiful day, a bit fresh but we were all rugged up and keen. The missus got the ball rolling on the first drift with a small squid. Good start just needed to up the size a bit. Well the sizes didn't improve all were around the same size. We ended up with 9 small squid and my 4 year old boy got a small cuttlefish on our last drift so he was pretty happy with himself. Let everybody know that he was the only one to catch a cuttlefish. Haha he's a fisherman already. So all in all an enjoyable day on the water with the family no great catches but still a tasty feed. Ended up stuffing the tubes with a Thai style pork mince turned out pretty tasty. 

Cheers

Chris. 

Went to my usual tailor spot Wednesday night and after a slow start we got onto some nice tailor.

Arrived to an empty and wet groyne and we had to brave some light rain, with the odd heavier shower. Good chop in the water, no weed and a freezing southerly blowing into our faces.

Mate landed a very healthy 49cm to start us off. Then followed up with a 37cm, which looked undersized compared to the previous one!!

Mate was giving me plenty of lip, then I got a 35er. A baby compared to his first one. He then gets another 48cm. F*** ME! 3-1 to my mate.

Then bang!! This starts taking a decent run. Got her in, 51cm!!! After a long time trying I have cracked fifty!!!!

Things went quiet so packed up at 11pm and head home.

Had the big rod out too and my yellow tail was stolen by a squid

Sorry no photos, everything was kept well away from the rain.

After picking the boat up from Chivers on Wednesday, we thought yesterday would be as good a day as any to go out and test the new mods.  We had a HDS10 Gen2 with a 1kW tranny fitted, some more lights, handrails and reconfiguring - and needless to say, the sounder is amazing, and cant wait to get into the deep water to test it out properly!

I thought it would be a good chance to catch up with my mate Simon since we were on break together for a change, so we headed out with my Dad from Dawesville at around 7:20am.  The cruise out was not too bad, bit of a following sea, and we had first lines in the water at 8:50.  Not long and the DHU account was opened, followed by a sambo, then some more DHU's.  In total for the day in this area we landed a couple of sambo's, at least 12 Dhu's, and had a few fish that took us back into the caves/reefs.  The Dhu's were pretty much instant hits when the sounder screen started to light up, with one drop being a double header of 55cm Dhu's on my line, Simon had one and my dad had a reefing.  Some great fun was being had.  With this came time for Simon to chuck a jig on and have some more fun.  Of the dhu's,  all bar 2 were put back down on the release weight, with the 2 keepers being me with about a 92cm 15kg, a PB for me

and Simon, who got his first metro legal Dhu, and on an octo jig, and as we then found out, on his birthday - about 83cm and 11kg!  So congratulations mate and happy birthday, and hopefully you enjoyed the day out!

Once that second big dhu hit the deck is was lines in and the call made to go and try find something else.  We chugged along into the easterly for about 16km to a patch on the way home that we have done well at previously.  lots of activity on the sounder and hits, but unfrtunately the pinks we wre hoping might be there (one fish that we are really struggling with at the moment!)  However did manage to pick up a fat 54cm KG (which from memory was another PB for me!).

All in all it was a great day out, and even more so to see such a healthy fish supply in an area we have been out to a few times now and it seems that is is quite spread out too.

Hope you guys enjoyed the read and pics, I know I really enjoyed the day!

Just got back from two weeks in Exmouth, the weather wasn’t very kind and a week into the trip if you had asked me what I thought of Exmouth, I would have told you in no uncertain terms where you could stick Exmouth. My wife was going to send me home early because she couldn’t put up with all the complaints. But finally the weather cleared a little and we managed to find some fish.

A quick call to friend a in Perth to get some help with sounder settings so we could find fish in the deeper water helped too. As other people have commented there are a lot of sharks out there. We found closer to the back of the reef line they seem worse than when we were fishing in the deeper water.  We made a point of moving once one of us hooked up a shark.

But by far the highlight of our trip was on the last day of fishing, my wife and I had caught a couple of nice reef fish and decided to troll back to the boat ramp in the deeper water hoping for a tuna or a wahoo. All of a sudden Alison’s rod started screaming, she jumped straight up and grabbed the rod as I put the boat in neutral and grabbed the other rod to get it out of her way. As I was bringing in the small skirted lure, Alison’s fish dropped off but I kept winding my line in and as it reached the back of the boat I saw what I thought was a wahoo coming up towards my skirt, just as the lure got to the back of the boat a striped marlin appeared and smashed the lure right in front of us, it took off away from the boat and line was peeling off my reel very quickly.  We were both yelling at each other trying to get rods and lines out of the way when the marlin turned and came straight back at the boat jumping out of the water almost landing in the boat.

It then headed around to the front of the boat, but as I got to the bow the marlin turned again and went under the boat which meant the line when slack as the marlin jumped out of the water at the other side of the boat and won its freedom. Only other fishermen would understand, but that 60 seconds of excitement made up for the 16 hour drive up to Exmouth and  all the bad weather. Unfortunately we don’t have any pics or footage of the marlin, but its burned in our minds and something we will never forget. I am already looking at making another trip up there to try and catch the one that got away.  

Got a mate from Bunbury here that wanted a bit of rankin to take home. Got a couple out from tantas today, weather not too bad and the fish went off after lunch , got them all in an hour.

Only lost half a rankin( the biggest one) to the sharks.

Trout was his first ever and went 810mm on the measure.

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Headed out yesterday in the hunt for some decent size fish without a hint of bait on board.This is new to me but my best mate dirt has been having quite a bit of success on the old jig. Hes been trying to talk me into getting into it for atleast 12mths now but Ive found it hard to get my mind around going that far out and not having any bait to drop down.Well I bit the bullet,left the heavy bottom bouncing gear at home and loaded the small bag of jigs and the light gear into the boat.Could have been mistaken for heading out for a bream fish with the gear we had.Dirt had the go gear,saltiga 4000 matched up to the saltiga rod and I was armed with the big fishing wa 2-4kg soft placky rod mached up to the big daiwa freems 3000.Now ive seen dirt catch a heap of fish with the jigs but usually there has been bait down as well so this is a bit new even to him but with the belief that if we can find the fish they will nail the jigs we were confident.We headed out from dawsville cut as the sun came up and our first impressions were it was going to be fairly flat all day.Slight NE wind as the forecast said,overcast almost stormy sky set the scene for a pretty picture as the sun came up.As we got out to the 10mile mark it started to get messy.Cruising on 18-22 knots it took a good hr and a half to reach our first spot,opprox 31nm out.This was our first drop ever on my boat baitless. I was using pirate jigs,dirt the flutter type.Well the pirate work well, my first fish being a foul hooked seargent baker about 6in long.Now that takes some skill.Next drift (dirt still laughing at my first fish on jig) I boated a nice size black ass.Yahoo my first keeper.By this stage dirt is nolonger laughing as he hasnt had a touch.Next drift dirt gets in on the action with a wrass.As he releases his fish something smashed my jig, and after a small fight snapped me off.Not sure why, I thought the 12lb braid I was using should have been able to stop anything.(HA&nbsp;HA)A couple of drifts later we decided to head out further to my man dhu ground.We tried about 6 of my top spots for not even a sniff.By this time you start to think about the one that got away,the one that took my pirate jig at the first spot,thinking that may be all she wrote.By this stage the wind had all but dropped off.It was perfect out there ,had the ocean to ourselves,no another boat in site,infact didnt see another boat all,except for the cray boat working the grounds we were on.With no fish on my spots we decided to go and see what ground&nbsp;the craypots were on.After a sound around,some small clumps of fish,we decided to do a couple of drifts passed a couple of pots, all to no avail.We moved a couple hundred of metres and found a group of 4 pots in 60m arc.The sounder lit up,as did our eyes.We spun the boat around with anticipation,set&nbsp;our drift,and dropped down.BANG we were both on.BLOODY&nbsp;CUTTLEFISH.Big ones to,approx&nbsp;5 of&nbsp;6 kg.We looked at each other, in utter disapointment.We decided to go back around and have another drift and BANG. On again, but these were no cuttlies.We called them for sombos first just because of the sheer volume of them on the sounder from&nbsp;1.5m&nbsp;up to 6m off<img title="" class="imagecache-forum_preview" alt="" src="http://fishwrecked.com/files/imagecache/forum_preview/meersy/Dhuie on JIgs 16.06.12 503.JPG" /> the bottom.Well we were wrong.Dirt landed his biggest ever man dhu ,we guessed at about 20kg and I landed my first dhu on a jig,about 8kg.After the high fives and the shouting and the debate weather to keep the big boy or the smaller one died down we spun the boat around.Got over the drift ,the sounder lit up again and Bang, another double hookup.Dirt landed another horse dhu and I had another bust off.Remember im only using my small soft plastics gear.We couldnt believe our luck.What a spot.Dirt was done.He was happy with his effort.Well I Wasnt happy with mine . I wanted another go.&nbsp;I also took by barra bustin combo just incase I got spooled or something so I decided to go around for one more drift.Dirt monuvered the boat back around and the fish were still there.I quickly tied the flutter jig on(upside down I might add) and dropped over.Didnt even get to the bottom before it got smashed.I was running 20lb braid on the combo so i was a bit more confident of landing a bigger fish,Up comes another 8kg Dhu.With the time getting on a bit,and our satisfaction filled we decided to call it a day.The trip back in was mint for the first 5 nm.But then the sea got crazy,2m breaking Northerlies mixed with a 2m swell was nasty.Slowed us down to 16kn but we couldnt care less.We were stocked with our effort.Im now on the hunt for a new combo, a demersal jigging combo.Cant see me wasting my money on bait again.</p>

Went for a fish this morning off some metro rocks. hooked a good salmon that jumped clear of the water about 1 metre away from me. Soon after the line went slack. Thought the line snapped but on closer inspection it looked as if the line had slipped through the top eye of the gang hooks. The knot was still intact and knotted. A bit dissapointed but happy to see I don't need to take the 400km trip down south to get into some.

Took the 2 young blokes for a fish this morning on the northern side of the cut. They had a ball plenty of small tarwhine,skippy,sand whiting. Young bloke caught his second size KG whiting only scraped in at 29cm but he was stoked, dad was also stoked till it pissed down.

 Was down in the trigg area this morning and saw a few guys land 4 big tailor on high tide further down the beach... by the time i'd moved they'd moved on so missed out myself. Having a look at the fish one was 50+ and really fat. all caught on mulies under a float.

Went down to Hillarys to check out the sea and wind in the storm ....... mother nature is awesome and the melody coming off the masts something else.

There is a nutter having a fish into the harbour below the lighthouse.  Bet he's never cast so far in his life!

Headed out for my first real bottom bounce today after what seems like a month and a half of 'nuking winds' up here.  Fish were on the bite as soon as we got there and first fish up was a nice 55cm trout, followed by a decent red for me, a double header trout and baby red, rankins, spangles and more baby reds.  After a while the bite shut down, but long enough for us to get a bit of table fare.  We went looking for spots after that and trolled for a while with no luck, found some interesting ground and were plagued by solid golden trevs (saved for future jigging and plastics trip, will be awesome light tackle fun)  Didn't get around to getting a 'table' shot unfortunately, but sure there will be a few in the future.  Also got a nice 55cm trout and 55cm bluebone on the spear yesterday which was my first real dive in the area, things are looking promising!

hey all went for a nite session on sat nite just beforr the front ,we anchored up on s favorite snapper lump and berleyed up result was pinks between 650 and 800 then the sea monsters turned up ( sambo) lol bigguns got this one after a mental scrap 1.5m long and scales died at 35kg awesome sess got smoked by bigger ones

lb snapper after this storm? please share your thoughts

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Went for a bit of a fish after work today. Went to Trigg but it wasn't happening with the wind. Headed to Hillarys to find somewhere with the wind at my back. Caught one 41cm Tailor for about 1 hrs fishing. Sorry for the kitchen shots, will take the camera down next time. Before and after..............

Got a few nice baldies yesterday.pb at 650mm.5kg plus.

Decided to go for an all nighter last sunday night down south of the metro with big jords, didnt hit the beach till later than expected 4.30 pm ish, sea looked nice n fishy with a gutter straight in front of us, so quickly set up the small rod to see if there were any livies about for bait and instantly got in to lots of salmon trout, hundreds of them which became a bit annoying thru the night as they became bait stealers. but good to see the numbers for the future.

As it got dark we slowly set up camp and put the bigger rods out, not much happening so put a nice bit of burley in, not long after with a old frozen herring on a running sinker ganged hook rig my reel screamed, loaded it up and called it for a ray, and yes it was 10 mins later and my 1st ever ray landed, hooked them before but never landed one.

It was a smooth ray of around 800-1000mm acroos just a pup, but gee it cramped my arm and but an ache in my back, hats off to the guys that mange to land those monsters, dont think i even want to try for one of those beasts.

Next up we have a visitor to the camp, he was a brave lil bugger n came pretty close trying to see what he could steal.

Burley'd up again and not long later i got a hit, not much of a fight but definatley a bit of weight on the end, not sure what it was  but then we saw it in the wash and jords pulled it in for me my 1st gummy shark, roughly around the 1m mark, very happy fisho i am at this point 2 firsts and none for Jordan ha.

The burley was definately working i had a hook up but it decided to jump off the hooks,we had a quite a few salmon trout pulled in through out the night.

I kept getting good hits but couldnt convert, started to annoy me but i kept baiting up cocktail of squid and mulie, the hits were solid so made me think it was Tailor, and yes it was i hooked him , got him to the wash and it was was new PB of 57cm, previous was 46cm, very very happy man.

Jordan saw his rod bend while fishing his smaller one, but he thought he missed the hook up. so left it there, 5 mins later im in again, felt like the first gummy, i bring it to the surf and yes it a gummy but low n behold our lines are tangled and its his hooks in the gummys mouth, was a bit bigger than my one. Still think its my fish as i reeled it in hey Jords? no pics as thats on his iphone.

We called it a night at 2am but back up at 6am, morning was definately not productive even with the high tide, decided to knock it on the head around 11.30. jords left his new posiden/saltiga combo in till the last minute with a frozen herring on the slide bait .

and at the last minute his reel goes off, calls it for a ray and its a smooth ray again roughly the same size as the 1st one. 10 mins later we land the ray and he's christend his new combo on the first try.

Jords taking his time .

Jords smooth ray.

All in all quite a good nights fish for us.

Cheers

 G'day, went fishing with Dundee Bill today on his boat.  After waking up at 1am to the sound of my kid crying and then at 5am to him kicking me in the back I was very happy to be going fishing for the day.  We headed out from Ocean Reef at a respectable hour and were getting bites on most drops.  Must have caught half a dozen pan-sized pink snapper between us and they were all undersize.  Caught half a dozen other species by lunch and then the wind and swell increased so we moved to 3 mile for a fish where several other boats were also hiding from the changed conditions.  Thanks again to Dundee Bill for responding to my fishing buddy post and for being a great skipper.  See pic below - nice 50 odd centimetre flathead caught in 35 metres of water.  Cheers, Dean.

 Hey guys anybody been dhi lately chasing a fishing report

Well the answer is yes .We headed out from 2 rocks at 7:30 in less the average conditions ,the new boat went through the slop nice sitting on 17 knots .The rods were rigged and down on the first spot ,and fish were on the bite our first dhuie on board around 6 kg in with the tag and a clean release.There were a few quiet times but most spots were holding fish .We tagged 9 dhuies kept 2 and a Black bum.and boldie .Jody stayed true to form with a good sambo. Which was released.We did drop a couple of nice fish also .So all is looking good for the new fish magnet .sorry left the camera at home .

There has been rough weather over the last few days with murky waters before the sand bar and a large swell out at the end. I have been fishing for a large pinkie at the end but have had no joy over the last few days. The mulloway fishermen are out in force on the first half with reports of a few being landed. I have seen the mulla guts on the deck while on my way in late at night. Good sized squid are around along the second half of the jetty after the sand bar. Small skippy are also around on the second half , good fun on the light gear when you are bored.

I pushed in on Saturday around the seven am mark,slowed by the early chill and several cups of cofee. we made our way out to the grounds in an uncomfortable following sea with nasty holes,slowing down our progress to 15 knts. We were fuelled by a week of reading the fishwrecked forums and had read all the weather reports  finally finding one that had a great forecast. First part of the morning was really slow, with one reasonable baldy, and  a sucessfully released small dhuie. As the day progressed we managed a Female dhu and in the arvo another,male this time.Overall the bite was slow and we worked hard for the bites but it was wa worthwkile outing. The friends and family where happy with the dinner provided on Sunday and my daughter held an impromptu concert on my boat tribute to the dhufish. Any how, off to hillarys to deliver the carcasses.