Headed out friday afternoon for the boats first trip to the banks. On the way out stopped to throw the slugs at some schools of mack tuna. It was a fish a cast with the fish going ballistic all around the boat. I hooked onto what i thought was a horse of a mack tuna but after a 10 minute fight pulled a nice yellowfin up beside the boat. My mate got onto a smaller version on his next cast, and with a couple of yellowfin in the esky and a few mack tuna for bait we decided to keep going to get out to the banks before dark.
On arriving at one of the marks suggested by ausfish member revs57 (thanks mate!) we sounded around for awhile then decided to have a few drifts over a small show of fish. First drop we hooked a couple of squire and a pearly, we were all pretty happy about this and picked up a few more on the next couple of drifts. After putting a few fish in the esky we anchored for the night with fish coming over the side every now and then.
The next day we drifted over a few more spots picking up parrot, goldspot wrasse and few sweetlip, half a dozen red emperor just under legal and saw a marlin jumping. All in all a great first trip to the banks.
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