Headout with Kane on his Trophy for a day as a deckie. I really enjoy the odd deckie spot as opposed to normally skippering my tug and this was no exception.

We all just wanted an arm stretching, so a day of jigging up sambos was the target. Kane supplied the boat, I supplied the sambo spots, and off we went early this morning. Apart from a terrible little Humingbird GPS/Sounder (soon to be replaced) the Trophy was excellent and rode really well.

First spot just as the sun popped its head up in 35 m, I went with PE2 gear, Kane and Troy PE3 and PE4. Secd drop, I land a nice skippy released. Next drop, bang, MUCH bigger.........no stopping this beast on PE2, and I was duly bricked for my troubles...........I grabbed the PE3 outfit, drop, crank, bang, on, and another big model gave me plenty on PE3. Not a bad shallow water sambo.

With the sounder being prety well useless and things going quiet, it was decided to head off to some deeper spots, and pretty soon 3 way hookups were the norm, with us landing plenty of small sambos on light gear. Great fun. Troy, who had never jigged before, got 4 fish in 4 drops, ncluding this little Amberjack. He was amazed how hard the little ambers go.

Kane got the 8lb bream gear out, but after 2 drops for 2 lost jigs, decided that was a bad idea! Back to PE3.....

Then me and Kane both hookup, and after a few minutes, my line goes slack and lost my fish and jig.....bugger!!!! Kane then complains his fish just got bigger.......huh.....then up cmes a double header for Kane, but on 2 jigs! My jig had been hooked by Kanes jigs, snapped my line, and then Kane brought it all in. Kanes fish fell off as he went to land it, but mine was stll there, on my purple jig....wierd.

On the way home we had another shallow jig, and landed a small dhu released, followed by the likely fish of the day. After about a minute on PE3, it bricked me, suspected donkey dhu as there were no big sambo runs, just heavy, short powerful spurts until he found his hole.

We ended up hooking a LOT of fish, only landed around half, and lost a lot of jigs, but had a ball!

Cheers Fellas.