Well with only 1cm of tidal movement in a 12 hour period we were not really expecting too much today. Kelvin8tor and i grabbed the popping gear, my new fly rod and the dive gear with the hope of finding some new ground. Set off in a completely different direction, was really weird to be heading west for a change.

Anway it was a bit blowy early but with the clears up everything was ok. Got to some pretty fishy looking ground, it was way to windy for me to try out my fly rod so in went the poppers. It didnt take long before i managed a solid stike from what looked like a good fish. I was stoked to bring a 22-23kg alongside the boat on a very neapish day so earrly in the piece. Very very happy, i love my craftbait GT2, im sure i mentioned that last time

Number 1 approx 22-23kg, 106cm fork

Number on on my fav popper, craftbait GT2

well we were pretty stoked after that but it seemed to turn the fish off, moved around some more and found another likly looking bit of ground, there was a bit of swell surge so i think it made up for the lack of current. I had a huge GT come up on my popper unfortunately no hook up. Sheldon was the next to hook up. His first ever trout on popper, not a biggun but a good effort, well done mate

Nice little trout on an Andos weezel popper

Kelvin8tor's trout on a WEEZEL popper

Righto, we moved back to the spot where i hooked the first GT, was pretty stoked when on the second cast i managed another solid hookup. Kelvin8tor drove the boat into some deeper water (8m) and i played the fish to the boat. Pretty stoked to get another GT given the circumstances, the swell surge was creating an area the fish seemed to like

estimated about 20-21kg fish, 103cm fork

Another solid pilbara GT

number 2

Well the wind had backed off and it was getting hot. We decided to move over to another spot for a swim, i broke my speargun handle and i new i would only have one shot before it was US. I made it count, managed a nice trout for the missus, was about 65cm not too bad should make a few troutburgers anyway

sorry about the edditing, the new spot is pretty much untouched, want to keep it that way

Well we found thie hole that had about 4 bronzies ranging from 3 - 6 or 7 ft. We had an awesome swim with them. Was pretty bloody cool the sharks were loving the attention, we were circling each other really close, could almost pat them. I managed a few shots but they are not very good

Anyway i was spewing i broke my gun, there were trout everywhere and some good bluebone as well. Kelvin8tor got up close and personal with a manta no cobes on it though. I had a quick go of my fly rod when the wind dropped of, had a spanyid and two trout stalk my fly but no hook ups unfortunatly, sheldon took a few more snaps underwater but the vis was pretty crap

overall a great day, glass for the mid day motor home to for the second week in a row

gotta love the pilbara

lil trout

another lil trout

Pilbara Gold fish