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.

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.

Even so, all dories initially unloaded their catch to Kanimbla within the first hour as the weight of fish slowed them down and took up floor space. The tally of wahoo increased and ‘standing orders’ became ‘try to release all you catch’. The best guesstimate is that there were about sixty hook-ups from Wahoo in that early session. Dave caught a magnificent thirty three kilogram Wahoo that morning which went on to become ‘fish of the trip’.