That pics a good advertisement for not eating canned tuna though...look at the state of those things...I wouldn't even feed them to my cat!

Bagged 5 yellowfin, 2 rainbow runners, a skipjack and a mahimahi, fed another mahi long range to a shark, it was very cool. overcast skies though so couldn't be fagged getting pics, got dozens of similar ones already, besides it was too full on to take pics as the fish were being caught, and I don't like pics after the fish has been in the icebin.

Then we headed off to rendova, tried some new bottom fishing spots, got a mixed bag of teng snapper, longtail and ruby snapper, before we headed baack for base in the mid arvo. Very very good day! :-)

Today we are going to try up the mangroves again as the breeze is back , and a half-day is a nice option for our old bones! :-)

Still, cliff and I headed out into the wind tossed ocean, battled bravely thru the massive waves to fish the rough waters off kohinngo island.

Just trolling along with halco's.... like I said, we're getting lazy... picked up a few coral trout (highfin coral trout)

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... and after a while Cliffie bagged a small dogtooth tuna, just a puppy....

.... but he was stoked to bag a new species, and also a chance to have dogtooth sashimi, supposed to be the premier of raw fish. Good luck with that, yuck. :-)

Finished off with  bit of poppering, more of the same, picked up 5 or so kingfish, and got back to find a spearfisherman had a maori wrasse for sale to the restaurant...,

.... beautiful fish, and apparently the lips are worth hundreds of dollars per kilo on the asian markets, but hey, never mind :-)

Well, feel a lazy day coming on tomorrow, but we'll see....

Baitfish were up on the surface, acting nervous as well, in a couple of groups. Cliffie fired at one group astern, I cast at the group for'ard. First cast, and a small group of golden trevs made darting runs at the popper, really raising the ol' B.P., so another cast went right back into the same spot. This time a couple more trevs had a slash at the popper, a R2C medium size dumbbell, but after just a couple of second a bar of silver just shouldered them out of the way and inhaled the lure... a big, boof-headed barracuda!

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... man that sucker must've wanted it! As it was zapping about, we saw more trevs trying to grab the head of the lure out of it's mouth.... stupid fish, this is how you wind up with double hook-ups!

From here we moved on, slowly heading up to the reef passes at Hotspot, the extreme low tides reducing the optons a bit, but again, near the Hotspot gap, a cast over a deep coral head resulted in a flash of deep red, and this time my little R2C Wideglide got nailed....

, a nice fat mean fish.

We worked the area a little more, Cliffie again finding some more blind fish (which manage to miss the hooks of the lures even though they pull the lures underwater! Stoopid fish), we crossed into the lagoon itself again, crossing across to the Reremana passage, hoping to get outside to thebottom fishing outside. Sadly it was still pretty choppy, certainly a pretty decent swell running thru, so we caanned that idea, and trolled off towards MantaRay Island to tthe east. Seeing as we were heading that way, we popped a couple of skirts out, but no joy, even though we cruised all the way across to Makuti island.

Once in the lee of the reef at Makuti, we finally decided to drop the bottom gear, picked up a honeycomb cod and a couple of jobfish, but it wasn't electric fishing, and the wind was lifting a little, so we shot back over to double to try the bottom out there.

A lot shallower at 150m, we still picked up some more fish, but by this time  Cliff and Iwere wearing down, the thing about sunny tropical days is they tend to be pretty damn hot, so for a last stop on the way home, we popped in to the same bommie again.... to find the same schools of bait....hmmmm..

well, we had to try.

First cast (again! So often it is the 1st cast that picks up the fish), and there was this huge crash on the lure as somehing pretty gnarly climbed all over the popper....

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... not a bad way to end the day really.

By the time we got back to the resort we had been out for 8 hours.... a long day in the tropical sun, so cooked and clapped out Cliffie and I have resolved to have a bit of a lazy day today! Probably head out in the arvo I guess, see how we fare then. :-)

Now, better go read Bazza's account of the adventure with the coconut crabs, I wonder if he has woven that little tale of adventure and daring-do yet!

I just cannot describe the beauty yousee everywhere here in these islands.... man, that free aquarium called the vonavona lagoon is just magical.