G'day Everyone,

My first post to the site after many months of envious viewing over the various forums, well done to the site admin team and content from the fisho's out there.

Well I checked out the weather last Saturday and by all accounts Sunday was going to be a stunner on the water and it didn't take long to round up a couple of deckies for a 3:30 start heading out to Point Samson from Karrachi.

Arriving at the boat ramp I wasn't dissapointed with the glass off that awaited us and we were soon heading out toward Delambrey Island to investigate some ground that had interested me on a couple of local maps.

40 minutes on full throttle had us on some average looking ground but we still had a bottom bounce and true to the sounders word we puled up a couple of average cod, time to move and working birds not far away had us thinking pelagics.

After a short sprint to some working birds we had a spread going of two red heads through a big bait ball and we we were soon hooked up and much to our delight a 8 kilo mackie on ice after some arranging of the esky.

We continued to troll and picked up numerous yellow fin tuna and mack tuna all released before we started thinking bottom again, so we decided to head over some ground we had previously bagged out on snapper closer to Huay island.

We picked up a few nice snapper but we started to have some serious concerns about two things; One of my deckies was seriously starting to concern me with signs of heat stress and the looming storm clouds on the horizon heading toward Samson. 

If anyone was out on the water on Sunday you would Know that it was very F$%king hot, after looking at my deckie and knowing the signs of heat stress the decision was made to head home before his condition became worse, I wasn't happy but my mates health was average.

Heading back to Samson it was evident that we were also going to have some issues with the storm cell that was also heading toward Samson and it was definately going to be touch and go if we could make it back to the boat ramp before the storm front hit.

Well we didn't make it, the storm hit just as we were out the front of the Samson and the mini water spouts ripping across the water had us deciding to head for the beach and nose into the wind until the worst had passed, it was a good decision and we safely rode out the worst of the conditions in the relative comfort of knowing if we had to swim to shore if we did come unstuck we didn't have far to go.

As for my deckie I think the adrenaline snapped him out of feeling like Shite and he soon came good.

We made it back safely to the ramp followed by a couple of other boats and on speaking to the skippers it was agreed it wasn't a very fun experience.

Lesson learned, respect your mother nature and if you see a storm coming play it safe and head home.

For the record I searched the BOM records and Roeborne airport had wind gusts up to 105 Kmh when the storm front came through, we were very lucky.

Next time I will try to include more photo's of fish, but what i will say is that between Delambrey and Hauy island the fishing can be awsome and there always seems to be pelagics patrolling the ripping tide.

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