Well, got so fed up with the manky weather at home this winter after getting home from the Solomons in June that I have come back to Zipolo habu here just to find a more civilised temperature.
We arrived here on Lola island weds morning, we being, Bazza, his mate Adrian, Cliff Solomon, a regular fishing mate up here, and myself.
after a bit of a scramble to unpack and assemble our toys, we came to the bar for a bit of refreshment. Once here, Lisa, the co-owner of the resort, popped her head out of the kitchen window and yelled "we have no fish!"... which I took to be a clear instruction to get a rattle on and wet a line.
So it was that Cliff and I (being the old hands here, and having got our gear ready faster) hopped into the dive boat at around 4 pm, and headed out for a quick tour of the likely spots nearby.
Well, itworked. First possie, "spot X", only bagged us a small paddletail, which nailed a smaall 112mm R2C Wideglide, but the second spot (this is on a regular "run", spot x, the bommie, tonys island and the Diamond narrows reef), The Bommie, had masses more baitfish holding on it.
Just a couple of cast in and my popper got hit in an almighty explosion of water, hit on my new little reel I am trying out, a Pflueger Salt 6000, loaded with 30lb fireline.
as the fish came boatside, we coukld see just why.... there were two fish on the one lure! Two being a matched brace of golden trevally, nice 5kg fish. Two fish on the same lure are never easy to tame, and boatside one of the little blighters managed to wrench itself free, so we slid the gaff into just the one fish. Still..... first trev for the trip!
After that we got a steady line up of hits, hook-ups, misses and fish landed.
Cliffie opened his ledger with a nice bluefin trev, and we finished the day off with a nice spanish mackerel that nailed my ring little R2C dumbbell popper, a wee 5 inch little tit-bit that proved to be deadly last trip.
So, that was a good starter.
Today after a quick check out and run thru of their gear, Bazza and adrian headed out for some bottom fishing. They did OK, opening their score cards with a pair of comet grouper, a golden groper, oblique banded jobfish, a banded snapper and an ooglius anonymous.
Now, Cliffie and I are thinking of shooting out again for another look around....here's hoping it is as good as yesterday! :-)