Well with so much happening and my family coming over for my wedding on sunday and my brother desperately wanting to have a fish, the plan was for the Friday.   however a few very unexpected injuries before hand resulting in my step daughter needing plastic surgery to her ear because of a hungry horse deciding to take a little nibble, the fishing trip looked like not happening.

However some juggling of plans and extra long hard hours setting up for the wedding meant I was able to finally get the boat out on the Saturday morning. Plan was to head out to the fads to get some dollies then have a bottom fish, so launched rockingham at around 6:30 and found conditions pretty good so a shoot out to FSC fad was the go. Got about a km away and set up for the troll and tuna everywhere stripies and little SB everywhere, 4 way hook ups etc, great start to the day.

Get going again get just past the fad and bang 3 way hook up on dollies, boated a few there up to around 100 odd cm until a boat came along and the divers jump in, thank you very much see you later !! Plan was to head back closer to shore and have a bottom fish in around 40 odd meters. First spot was basically a dummy drift to set up and work out what way we were going, once that was established, the next drip was set up . lines down, few pickers then I feel a tell tale dhuie having a go at my bait, send back a bit of line then back im on, good fish too, get him up, down he goes, this went on for a good few mins until I could feel him tire a little, arms feeling it and legs shaking knowing this is a good fish we wait for colour and what a sight, up at the back of the boat a horse dhuie comes up floating, into the net and on board, and cheers all around, this was to be my biggest to date at 18.7kg and the day before my wedding to just top off a great weekend.

Picked up another few dhuies also for the day and ended up keeping on the boat for the day a few tuna, 3 dollies to feed everyone that night and 2 dhuies 1 at 18.7kg and the other around 8-9kg, so extremely happy and back at the ramp at 1:30. not a bad day