well to say we did it tough would be and understatement but hell we gave it all we had and some. 

thanks to all the members who gave advice and the few we met up there 

day 1

arrived in coral bay to wind, fullmon and the word the water was cold and filthy which crushed our hopes of trolling up some bills and pelagics, the first arvo was a little sesh to test all the boats, get gear ready and find the channel.

hit the ramp after a few warm up beers and one of the boats is leaking fuel from the carby. firstly tried tightning bolts no luck then two lads went back to camp and started googling found schematics and found one last bolt loose WINNING back in the game

day 2 

hit ramp sun up charged out in sloppy conditions, 2 boats (mihai and richard) (warren and hayden) stayed in close chasing a few bait schools with success 3 cobia boated, massive sharks and blood boiling as bait schools being destroyed and back to ramp early, 3rd boat (chris and I) headed wide with skirts in trail, nailed a yellow fin that was full of worms , after a few hours of no luck came across a massive show on the sounder 70m so decision made call of the trolling. over went the bottom bash gear first drop big rankin and a trevally, second drop hooked up on jig small fish then absolutly monstered by a much much larger fish on my sustain 10000 and 50lb . chris was trialling his new deep drop setup (fish winch) electric reel attachment in the new rod extension holders made by member sea-kem, lands a nice goldband and big red throat.

reset drift and he hit the bottom chris gets a massive hit clicks reel into gear and fish is stripping 17kg of drag of his tiagra 50w both of us thought huge shark, after a few long minutes up pops a 35kg+ cod (my jig destroyer).

we boated the fish but both of us devastated that there was no way of saving this fish (over size) terrible rule so we called it a day

day 3

weather looks bad decision made no boats just beer and 4wd

day 4

exmouth bound. day trip to exy chasing clean water, pelagics, bills and deep drop. we all left the channel to a wall of birds and baitfish (game on) over went the bibs. mehai and richard warren and hayden all hounded the bait most of the day for spanish macks, dollies, wahoo and a sneaky deep drop to wazza for a nice goldband. chris and I headed wide skirts out for one lonely 130cm dolly, called it quits and next was a deep drop in <450m our first real deep drop, sounder read depth but no good other then that. chris goes fish winch i went manual mode with second 50w. time to wind up after 20min drift FARK that never again put the tiagra in low gear and went at it like a working girl on a friday night. next drop was chris's turn on manual and i went leccy reel. result was 1 filthy big green eye and me laughing at chris taking forever on manual mode. 

called it quits headed shallow to float some baits into bait schools for another big dolly (tail slapped me in the forehead) and a cobia. trolled sunset for a small mack and tuna

and 1 of the largest sharks ive seen, monster tiger 

(LONG DAY)

day 5

weathers on in coral bay, give the lads gps mark to spot we found on day 2 and all we heard all day was fish on over radio both mehai and wazzas boats bagging out and leaving chris and i out wide looking silly for undersize reds, trevally and other shit fish and 0 bills 

the day was celebrated with a few beers

magic conditions 

day 6

toughest day yet and last day for some, call of the day over radio BAGED OUT ON BOREDOM (mehai) guess you get the picture of the amount of fish caught today, we did manage a spanish mack and another good rankin but the wind blows up real bad and early so day is done racing back to channel.

day 7

chris and i spent a couple hours trolling along reef on the last day of fishing for 0, no birds working no bait action at all. few beers had the night before made for a very rough tasting can at 8.30am trying to inspire fish to take the lures. GAME OVER 

big thanks to all the lads involved and organising, do it all again next year at exy 

ive probably missed out heaps but this was the second time i wrote this post due to missplacing the first one