Quick report from a solo session i had on Sunday, was watching the rough weather all week with the hope a window would open sunday for either a morning or arvo anchor and burley session but with the police putting out warnings along with other rescue groups on FB i was hesitant to say the least.

After a 530am wake up and Met eye weather check i decided to scramble and get out there for a look, sun up was due at 7 so to be heading through the islands just after 6 it was a bit safer to at least see the waves and swell coming, quite a few boats had already settled between the islands which i found strange as this is sometimes the most dangerous spot with the breaking water, so i continued to head out to the five using the channel markers as a line through the wash and was soon out to a clear spot and on anchor just before 7am with the burley flowing....no breaking water in sight but still letting out all 50m of anchor rope due the swell...3.5m at a guess, sun just rising, high tide and peek bite time due before 8am i was hoping for a good session.

Within half an hour a double hook up had me scrambling, landed one and lost one at the boat with the bottom hook gone, rebaited the first rod and drifted down another scalie...few more cubes in the water...another shake of the burley cage and i was soon fighting another powerful fish, netted this one successfully, quick spike and measure 83 & 84cm...yahoo!! job done. 

Grabbed the lighter reel i had and tied on the first plastic to come to sight and threw it in to drift while i put the fish on ice and started to clean up...within a few minutes the shinmano elf 4000 started screaming...gezz they were hungry and putting up very good show in shallow water.....landed a few more for fun before heading back in by 9. 

Wind had picked up a bit making the travel back through the islands hairy....had a good look for a minute or two...then went steady to sit safely at the back of set heading in.....was soon up the speed and heading home for Pancakes!!