Have been out past couple of days fishing for pleasure amongst the large schools of snappers. Where we have been going, the morning has been slow and the arvo has been fishing intensly for a few hours at a time. We have been amongst the bait Schools out in the middle Gulf. The weather has been brilliant with smooth seas and heaps of sunshine.

Peeling reels


Lots of pannies feeding up



Super Smooth seas



Testing out a new Zman Squid


Boys havin Fun





Fishcakes all round

Great haul there very good catch the zman squid looks the bussiness.

You would have been banging into espresso no doubt!

Tightlines - where were you on Tue?

Ah some nice Reds thar.

Whales around?

'twas quiet out there in terms of Snapper today but..

Mahiman wrote: tightlines2 wrote: Nice fish Paul, just as a matter of interest did you have any success yesterday (Tuesday)? because I was out with Olfart and we found it really tough on the softies. I would be interested to see if you managed to score and we were just in the wrong place TL it was tough until about 3PM then the whole area was fishing very well we left them biting around 6pm. I was expecting to see Olfart there.  The Red Shad fished on 4 Oz Cyclops was working the best. Pink was  slow and blue and green were average...2 Oz Cyclops and also 3/4oz jighead was slow... The 4oz and Red Shad Paddle tail is now my favourite set up for out in the middle.

Hi Paul

We nearly got to go out into the middle ground.  However, after some discussion on Monday night it was decided that as Skoti had never fished the Firth it was a good opportunity to show him some new areas.  As it turned out, we probably did as well as many others, even though it was hard going for much of the time and the softies were not working at all.

Next time, perhaps - weather permitting!