Went up to Lancelin last thursday night hoping for some crays and a break in the wind to get into some fish.

Over 2 days the cray count was 0 and it was too windy to go out fishing.  I did manage an occy in the cray pots as a little bonus though.

Reports from some locals was that the Dhu's are in close as the pro's have their pots close in.  Sunday morning was stong easterly in the morning so decided to go out and bring the pots in.  After getting checked by fisheries they asked why I was not heading out fishing as the easterly was due to drop off and the wind was going to dissapear.  Hearing this, I took off home and got the gear ready to head out, I was back on the water by 11:00am.

I hit a sopt close in that was fishing well in the past for baldies but nothing was biting.  I then moved another 5 mile or so to a reliable dhu spot but again nothing was biting.  Except for the super calm conditons, it was not looking good.

I decided to head out deep to the 90's and noticed some surface action, possably tuna.  Having a go with the lure, nothing would bite so I thought I would drop down the patenoster to see if anything was happening on the bottom while I was trying for the tuna.

I was pretty much on straight away, queen snapper.  Next drop, another queenie but this time it was taken about 15 meters below the surface by a shark.  Next few drifts over the same spot produced about another 6 queenies.

I then managed to get a baldie, you can see it's stomach also has teeth marks where a shark tried to get my dinner.  After the Baldie, the pinkies turned up and I would have caught about 10 in 3 drifts, all except the one I kept went back fine.  They were still biting hard when I left.  on the last drop I caught the shark, I'm not sure on the type?

All in all it was a great few hours out on the water and I think I may have found a nice little lump in the 90's.