My first trip report so here goes. Weather report looked good so a quick trip up to 1770 on Monday night saw us arrive in time for a quick sleep then grab the boat and head out. Water was perfect - not glassy but close to it. Ran out to the Inner Wides in under an hour. Fishing was slow to start with but a bit of sounding around found some fish on a small dropoff. The fish were hussar, and of a better than average size for the area. Some went over a kilo! With 3 on board we soon had enough to keep us happy. We then started floating down large flesh baits (mullet of course under the new rules). Out the back were some good sized lippers. After a while I dropped a large bait straight down and hooked up a nice trout. Not the 6-9 kilo variety Tony catches though (Will have to find those close in trout spots one day). Caught 3 around the 2-3 kilo mark before I hooked a better one. The last trout came in at 5 kilos - very happy. A move and a drift in some deeper water off the reef found a few reds. 2 were just over the 55cm mark and already weighed 3 kilos - a nice fish for just legal. The third went around 5 kilos - very happy fisherman on the boat again. Moved to South Bustard and caught a few more nice lipper and a couple of nice Grassies around the 4-5 kilo mark. Rest of the catch included brown maori, moses perch and railways. We did end up with close to our bag limit for 3 fisherman but before you all get upset please realise this is the first time we have gone out since January and that none of the fish is wasted. It was divided between the 3 of us and won't last more than a month or two in my freezer. I would love to have the luxury of living on the coast so I could go fishing whenever the weather was good and the freezer stocks low. To finish off the trip back in was glorious. Also during the day sighted 2 whales, a pod of about 40 dolphins including many young, a hammerhead shark, tiger shark, snakes and turtles. 1770 has it all.
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