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Port 2005. I had been thinking about it for months and it didn't disapoint. On arival at the marina with our skipper Warren the first thing that we saw was a 125 kg blue sitting on the deck of our buddy at the marina at Little Beach the SGFC boat Gambit. The poor thing had been hooked in the tail and after a 2 and a 1/2 fight they had brought the drowned fish to the surface. The guys had to dump the fish ( after filiting it )and invited me out for a troll and to look for bait. We headed south

till we found a very nice current line a few miles out. Conditions were great and we were getting really good results on the sounder but there was nothing taking the lures we had out ( small for striped tuna as this was what we were looking for). Went in close looking for slimeys and found them very scarce but we finally got got them and got them good. I liked this as I found some country that would have to produce great kings and jew and snapper acording to the sounder. Sped out wide and put out the slimeys nothing and powered home. Next day stuffed around for a few hours doing the sail past and went straight out for a troll in perfect conditions in about 80 fathoms as that was were the action was yesterday It didnt take long for the results to come in and they came in thick and fast. There were beakies every where exept on our lures. The boat I have been fishing on for the last few months midnight went 4 1 0 For a day that was full of exitement but nothing could stay conected. We saw heaps of beakies caught very close to us all on slimeys so we started looking for them and trying them but to no avail. We found what we thought were HOO'S as our bait jigs bait and snapper leads started to vanish rapidly we had no wire but they were big enough to shread big slimies and leave just the head on the jig for us. Some boats had really good reports and every one I spoke to had a bit of action , Gambit caught 6 including 1 capture of 82 kg on 10 kg. The next day I woke up sick as a dog. The flu had struck along with the weather. I made my way back to sydney Warren of skipper told me that we had tagged a small black today in crap conditions. Alex a work budy and deckie on the 65 precision Mah bu hi? said they had only had a few strikes and nothing stuck. Any way There is heaps more to say and I dont really know any results but you will die before you fininish reading it but it was a great expierience in my first game comp ,really good fishing a great skipper and angling team, boys thank you very much. Also to Bob from Gambit thank you very much for taking me out on your fine rig I had a great time and I might have to make my way down to the SGFC to have a look around.

I just heard a tiger was weighed at 490 + kg HOly mother of Moses