Mate Colin and I did the run over to Koks island yesterday in near ideal conditions.

Arrived at the Koks patch, first drop and I'm on to what felt like a good pinky, 30 seconds later and bang, the big greycoat brigade has arrived, it dragged about 60 metres of 80lb braid out before wearing through the main line bove the swivel. Col managed to get a just size pinky up while this was happening. Tied a new rig on and back down for exactly the same result for me and Colin getting chomped as well. Time to move because I don't believe in giving free meals away for nothing.

As we went past the tip of Koks another boat decided to tag along about 50 metres or so off our back corner so change course a little to run over a well known edge so it would look like that was our intended spot. Down goes the gear and up comes a spanish flag each and looking over at the mobile pinger see that they have stopped as we hoped for and were watching intently. Over went their gear and we moved off towards deeper water thankfully that they thought they had a good spot with fish biting.

Some 4-5 mile further out and not another boat in sight we ran over a bit of corally bottom resulting in a 53cm pinky for Col and a double header of 54-57 for me with all three going back, reason being that we will get bigger and better later on---wrong!!!

Couple of drifts later and we decide that we should have kept those fish because things were a bit slow, too late now. Col got what he thought was a reasonable fish turning out to be a NW blowie and next drift a good spangled emperor.

We disappointed that a real good cobia that I estimated would go 2 metres plus wouldn't take a bait or lure as in swam laps around the boat while its grey coated mate took up station below, swiping a couple of fish off each of us before we called it quits and moved back inside tBernier Island to try to find some ground given to me by one of the crab boats who caught a heap of cod in a 200 metre run of pots.

After spending/wasting? an hour and 2-3 drifts for not losing a bait we called it home time, stopping about 4nm out to drag a chrome slice through heaps of small tuna attacking baitfish. No luck with the slices so I put on a small gold wonder wobbler with instant success only to lose the fish trying to lift it out of the water and in to the boat. Now with wobblers on both lines we went round and round the many patches for a couple of hits but no hook ups.

All in all a reasonable days results for 5 pinkies between 47cm and 58cm, a good spanglie and a spanish flag to go with a nicely sunburnt face for me and a buggered shoulder for Col, better luck next time.

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