BOI continues to fish well, was out last Friday evening.
Got to the ramp & realised I had forgot my sounder, feel kind of blind without it.
As a result couldn't really find the bait so softbaits only. Dragged a big 1oz with a big worm tail around while casting my normal rig. The dragged bait got two hits but real quality 75cm & a 85cm that I released.
Apart from those two I got semi regular hits & came home with 5 fish, all 50-60cm.
Out again last night, this time I remembered the sounder & picked up a bit of bait.
Softbaits untouched, you could be forgiven for thinking nothing was there. Bait was another story, periodic hits & again good fish. Two just over 70cm & another 4 over 60cm.
Got smoked twice, although I'm fairly sure one was a hammerhead taking a hooked fish. I had seen a meter long one swimming about the boat and a fish that had been putting up an avr fight suddenly took off & then ping.
Drifted over one spot where the bait didn't hit the bottom before something big took it, on for 30-40sec without gaining any line & hooks pulled. Before I could do anything another similar fish hits it, this one last 10sec before hooks pull. Let the reel out of gear & 5 sec latter another fish hits it. This one stuck & I landed a 60cm fish which felt tiny compared to the other two.
Drifted the same spot a couple more times but never did find that little patch again.
So while not fast and furious, plenty of fish about.
Still not the big workups, but there are solid bait schools.
Fish not surprisingly are in the general vicinity of the workups.
I've been mostly fishing in close, 26m was the deepest & often ended up in less than 20m