Hastily arranged trip with Mozza and Ronnien saw me learning some new techniques last night. All day we kept an eye on the weather and after the morning storms, all seems to settle down. SMS's back and forth to Ron and we finally decided to pull the trigger and go.
5:30pm Ron and Mozza rock up to my place, fishing gear loaded in "Hard Livin" and we are off to the Coastguard Ramp. After launching we headed out to the tripods in search of a few livies. Mozza cast his bait jig in around the pylons and in short time we had 5 nice yakkas in the live bait tank. The sun was just setting when we arrived at our first location near Horseshoe Bay. Ron dropped his home made squid light over the side and it wasn't long before the first of many squid arrived. With his special squid net in hand, Ron set to work catching a few squid.
The first location was pretty quiet, so we decided to try a second spot further around near West Point. This second location proved to be pretty quiet also. Mozza had remembered a spot a little further out in the bay, so anchor up and off we go. After sounding around for a little bit, we find his mark and set the anchor.
Squid light slaps the water and though the squid are a little thinner in numbers, they are quality squid. A steady number are being caught and put in the bait tank. Mozza and Ron are both getting steady hits as well as a few good bust offs from unstoppable Fingermark. Most failures were due to the separation of knots (the knots were fine, just these fish were big).
During the session Mozza get a big hit and he's into it. A good fight ensues and this fish does a full circle around the boat, dives, runs, head shakes (Now your all thinking F#$&ing big Fingermark, if you know the boat, you'll know the answer) SHARK, yep yet again Hard Livin chalks up another Noah. But, this is not the end of the story, Mozza gets this beast to the boat and its a shovel nosed shark (No big teeth). So he endeavours to puul the fish into the boat, during this manoeuvre, he knocks his glasses and plop another set of specs hit the salt and sink very quickly. So, Mozza, not a happy camper, pulls in the shark, happy snaps taken and then he extracts the hook and releases the shark back to the depths.
Mozza announces another PB in this big shark, so at least he had something to remember from the trip. After that it goes a little quiet on both fronts, fish and squid. The Fingermark are there as our baits are being sucked on and nibbled. After a little while Ron gets a thumper of a strike, giving the fish no chance, Ron launches into the fight with the drag locked up tight. a few minutes later up comes an 80cm 8kg Fingermark (another PB), bled and on ice we get back to fishing, but that was the last hit we had.
We could've stayed out alot longer, but we all had things to do on Saturday and would be killed by those who allow us to enjoy this pastime if we weren't upright and funtioning. We pulled the anchor and headed home around 12:30am. So even though I didn't catch anything, I learnt alot from these two great fisherman and mates.
We will do this again.....
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, not long after that i sent a squid back down & did not have to wait long. 
, but they will take live greenback herring, sometimes pillies. but if they are fussy only live squid will produce the goods which i have found to be about 95% of the time. gar & yakka's work well when they are full on. this is fishing out in the bays.
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