Hey all

havent posted a thread in a while...

today was a day like no other...

we decided to go for a boat out to behind 3 mile near scarbs area, some new ground...

we launched at ocean reef at 9am, trolled some twisties to mullaloo point with no success...

we then go to hillarys marina, anchored up east of one of the reefs, sent out some 10g twisties onto the reef and cranking in fast, BAM BAM BAM!!! herring into a frenzy jumping out of the water for the twisties! only landed 5 but about 20 hookups, lost so many when the jump clear of the water and shake like nuts!

from there we chugged a long until we intercepted the Rotto ferry path... we were following it on the gps so we could safely get it (never been any further south west..) well 1km from our spot and we were in the middle of the path when VOOM reef everywhere infront of us and under us! quick backed up did a Uy and went around it. we were confused as the track lead us head to head into reef!

we got to our spot and finally set anchor. checked GPS and we werent drifting... lines over and within a few minutes i see dad had his 2-4kg rod out and it was screaming! ahahah, anyways gave the rod to me and it had no head shakes but dead weight,  a ray... was peeling line off when i tightend the drag and snap! rod snapped and whacked me across the forhead ahahah!

with a few wrasse landed we started getting serious hits and what looked like  4 -5 larger fish on the sounder... but before we knew it our bilge pump turned out POURING out water!

dad asked me what it was and i said the bilge pump

then dad said oh kool

and at the same time we said oh shit its not meant to be on :O

i quickly opened up the little hole in the deck floor and the hull had around 15cm of water in it!

SHIIIIIIIIIZT!!!!!
before i knew it all lines were up and it was 60km alll the way back to ocean reef with the water level slowly rising....

hit the ramps and cut in front of a ffew boats dad ran up and got the trailer while i pulled the boat onto the actual ramp....

was one of the quickest retrivels ever!

pulled up and the buns were tightly in, opened them up and the poured out water for minutes on end.

few close call, good thing bilge pumps are automatic!!!!!

we suspect that one of the seals in the stern drives legs have split or there may be a split between the seal for the gasket....

with boating now finished for the day, there went our trolling aswell!!!

Cheers all!