Had some pretty good weather, managed to get outside the reef on all six of our fishing days. Didn't manage to boat ANYTHING red which was a bit of a bugger. Struggled to find anything promising on the sounder out further than about 40 metres deep. Had to fall back on shallower water spanglies for demersal fillets and in the process were hammered by the greysuits, so much that I doubt my austrian cousin will ever enter the water in WA again haha.

At least there were a few pelagics around which were a bit easier to pick up. Spent a fair amount of time dragging lures around for macks.

This mack picked up a mulie intended for a spanglie, off the bottom in 5 metres depth inside the reef.

This yellowfin nearly cost me my rod/reel. Barstard took off when I grabbed the leader and I had forgot to flip over the bail arm. Whole lot went over the side and I just managed to grab the rod tip.

Found the marlin out on the 80 metre contour. Skirts had been in the water for maybe 3 or 4 minutes, I was still tying off the teaser when it latched on. Danced around on the surface early on then went right down to the bottom. I was watching it on the sounder 70 meters down hoping like hell the sharks left it alone.

The only other signs of billfish we had was a freejumping sail and a rod bounce/roughed leader. We didn't spend a whole lot of time on the troll, I think we did about 3 hours all up in 6 days.