Fishing is Living

Unfortunately for you we were about 1km from the Bridge and in about 18 metres of water

Me and my best buddy "The Dog" took our boat "The Angry Beaver" for our first over night trip. Started off at 7.30pm and it was pretty slow we got the 10 hook rig working and soon had half a dozen live baits, a couple of Taylor and a couple of Yakka. Then it was a waiting game. I had a Live Taylor on the bottom and my mate decided a Pilly was the go. At about midnight my bell gives a jingle and line starts coming off my reel. I let him take a bit more before I tighten the drag and gave him a hit. It ran like a freight train (30kg braid) for about 10 seconds and then turned around and swam straight at me. As he hit the surface he some how dropped the hook I baited up again and within 5 minutes was on again, same story agh. Changed down to a smaller hook over the side again with a livie and bang on again. I was not letting this one of the hook a short battle and i had landed a 74 cm Jewie Re baited and straight away an 84 cm Jewie. My first Jewies and i was totally stoked. The Dog mean while was changing bait, but we had run out of live bait at the worst possible time. The Dog finally catches some more live bait and gets his line out again. But unfortunately all the Jewies had gone. But three hours later he did manage to pick up a good sized Hairtail which put up a wicked fight.