Firstly I have to say this was my second charter with BK's Fishing Charters, and once again they were awesome. The skipper Bob is very knowledgable and Becky the Decky kept everyone busy fishing. Their gear is excellent quality, good sturdy combos, some spinners with 20pd mono, and were overheads with much heavier braid for bashing the bottom.
Secondly, I've never been seasick before today, and I don't recommend it to anyone, I felt ghastly the whole time. It wasn't choppy, just a big slow waves of swell. Spent more time vomiting and feeling sorry for myself than actually fishing.
We headed out from Southport through some horrendus surf at the seaway, and headed out to the first reef. We got a Mac Tuna here pretty quickly, but then it went quiet. We moved on to another reef where we were greeted with insane action, was a big boil of Tuna, pretty sure there were some yellow flashes out there, but all we managed was another Tuna.
Moved to a third reef, and things instantly heated up with me pulling in a 57cm Snapper (PB!) and then three Spanish Mackerals in quick succession, the largest weighing in at 13.5kg, all were on the spinning reels, so 20pound line and lighter rods made them awesome fights. We dropped at least 6 other fish, two of which dropped at the side of the boat and were both Mackerals as well.
Headed back to dry land, gave Bob&Becky one of the Mackeral and carved up the rest of the fish into fillets.
I didn't get many photos due to my delicate condition, but here's a glamour shot :-
