heya guys and gals

 finally got copy of the pics off my deckie (its ok spooled i wont tell em it was your slack arse!) to chuck up ya all to have a look at and read.... after finally installin my new Lowrance HDS7 unit in the tub i was soooo keen to get out and give it a blast! Spooled and i teamed up to hit a spot out from gero right in shallow just behind the breakers to have a session on the plastics and with that we headed out into a stiff sth ester... after muckin bout with a few settings and gettin used to the detail of the new unit we did 2 quick drifts over my trout lump for a couple of small hits before pushing on to the dhu spot....had done well using light baits here before but never tried plastic so today was more experimental than anything.... rigged up on the light gear and sounding over the ground showed some nice markings and it looked good for a drop.... the drift was a tad quick but after hittin the bottom and jiggin for all of 2mins i had a big hit on the rubber and it was show time! a great fight in the shallow water (12-15m) and a lovely pink of about 80cms glided up for a piccie and then into the esky for feed! rapt! spooled was next into action taking a hit whilst takin pics of the pink before racing back to the rod and coaxing his enquirer for a 2nd chance.... bang! hooked up solid! another great fight takin plenty of line of the light spin gear before a lovely 7kg dhu showed itself! unreal!! 10mins first drift and already 2 lovely fish for home! still on the same drift and just minutes after spooleds dhuie again my little gulp got hammered! and this time it reallllly went off... i had my fingers crossed for a good dhuie as id yet to crack one but alas after another great tussle and rippppper of a pink showed boat side.... not having any fish at home this one was also dispatched and on ice... resetting our drift it wasnt long and back into fish..... minus one problem  - couldnt stay connected.... spoooled took a mammoth hit that he had on for some 2-3mins before pullin the hook on wat performed for all the world as a real nice dhuie and i got absolutely dusted by either a sambo or pink on roids.... it quitened off with those couple lost and repeat drifts over the area could only get me another good hookup on another "felt like" dhuie before again pulling hooks! the wind continued to strenghten and we retreated back to the marina rapt at the 3 great fish on plastic we had managed.....

roll on the weekend and a average but better forecast had us heading out again loaded with rubber and this time joined by flagpole on his tub - a quick trip down and hiding out of the wind we soon found some great looking fish markings and proceded to set up a drift about 1.5k from our original destination. no more than 2mins passed and a yell from flagpole had him onto one! yeah fish are here cant be long...... fish everywhere on sounder....... drift drift jig jig nothing....... flagpole got his 4 whilst his deckie was over the side talkin to his mate who musta been diving? "ralph" was his name i think? but we couldnt pull a card! pete left us and still we tried... even the mid week hot spot showed potential but no takers!

and then... finallllly spooled hooked up to a cracker - YES! - and then busted off..... Kaaaaaaaaaaaarrrr%% FFFFUU3$$$ noooo.... dropping another outfit he had ready straight down and it went straight off!!!! another good one! and he pulled the hooks..... not our day.... well his atleast! time kept ticking and i perserved with the rubbers until i finally got my first hit of the day! DHUIE on plastic virginity gone! finally i was stoked!.... and about 1hr later i took a big hit and run that again was looking fantastic coming up thru the blue water! welcome aboard number 2! that was the last fish for us as again the wind came up and you cant complain about 2 nice dhuies on ice.....

2 trips for 5 fish nothing amazing but we where both stoked at the fish on lightgear and that the effort and exploring had paid off.....

cheers poddy n spooled