Finally after waiting weeks to get out for a fish the chance presented itself yesterday and was i glad to wet the boat! had been in karratha for a wedding over the weekend and the storys of billfish going nuts had me going mental! i had to wet a line! drove back sunday arvo arriving in gero about 1030pm and a quick check of the weather before bed it looked good! woke up at gentlemans hours abit lagged from the trip but got the boat ready grabbed some gear and the missus and hit the water about midday ish..... straight down to a close in dhuie spot my old man has resulted in one undersize bigeye gettin the release weight wet even tho it came up in great nick outta 15m i thought there was no harm in gettin the lil fella back down asap... then the missus went dead quiet - pale - blank face.... hrrm not good i thinks.... usually shes pretty good and didnt wanna admit it but she was sick... in with the sea anchor and raced in close to a lump id done well at previously..

anchored up solid first shot and chucked some burley and waited... nothing.... waited more.... still nothing... hrrm crikey... the missus was gettin worse even tho conditions where ideal and suddenly after jiggin away with a Gulp 6" minnow for 10mins i got whacked and a short but solid fight later a nice skippy showed itself... it was a start anyway - missus was still gettin nothing and next drop another nice skip jumped on the plakkie... noice.... another 3 skips later all around 45cms and the missus finally nailed one on a mulie... then i got a solid hookup right on the bottom... trout! only just on 50cms so decided to chuckim back with high hopes of the bite improving... but instead it went quiet again and after 10mins of nothing the missus got snagged snapped off and spat it... haha oh well to be expected when crook i spose.. was just about to up anchor and head in when i had one last drop of the plakkie - 3 jigs and i got smasssssssshed big time.... using my light baitcaster and 6kg fireline i had both thumbs locked up tryin to extract wat felt like a bloody good fish! and after a quick fight in just 10m of water i had the fattest trout ive seen for yonks in the boat and i was extactic! 73cms and so fat! (it had 2 whole squid in its guts) this gave the missus a knew lease of life and first drop ping thnx for coming someone had some new jewelry down there! angry again re-rig and she watched me again next drop get blown on the plakkie! it was heatin up! another stonker trout came up that came in at 700mm and again in mint condition... that was our bag limit of 2 trout in the boat so was very rapt at having 2 700+ trout in the eskie and both on plakkies!

anyways this continued for awhile with big skippy one small sambo and another 6 trout coming to the boat before we headed in... the missus used mulies n fresh mullet the whole day for 1 trout 2 skippy and a bloody eel whilst i used the gulps to score 8 trout all between 500 and 730mm half a dozen skips and the sambo! they work alright

all just 10mins from gero and the beers on the way home tasted magic! now just gotta get out and try the new HDS7 i just picked up today for the tub! look out dhuies!