Saturday saw the wind back to 15 knots. There were no wahoo on the troll and we mainly caught white lipper and green jobfish with Nigel catching a lovely coronation trout to claim fish of the day. We left for Frederick Reef at 1700 hours on a fairly comfortable sea. Some large white lippers were caught in the southern lagoon.

Being a damn fine angler in the first place, Pilchy probably didn’t really need my Expert “back seat fishing” advice vis-à-vis when to pump and when to wind, but I administered the said advice regardless, and at +100 high decibels for that matter. Here we were: Our first attempt – after the season for that matter – and we had a 6-7 foot fish in the air! “HOW GOOD IT THIS,” we both thought and shouted as Steve made good progress and forgot to level-wind the line correctly onto my TLD reel (sorry mate – you deserved that!)

One dory landed on the southern most part of Kenn Reef, Boulder Cay, which has the remains of a long-liner on it. Boulder Cay registered as 335 miles from Gladstone, hence the northern end of the reef is about 340 miles from Gladstone - a long way indeed.