Ouch !!!

The rising moon had the fish going crazy with catches of between 30 and 50 Kingy's averaging 6 to 7 kgs. But as I predicted the increase in water temperature this week has slowed the bite. Though the ones we are catching are still quality fish.

The temp has jumped to around 20 degrees and the smaller fish have started to move inshore. Last trip we only managed a dozen or so nice ones but early in the week the bite was still going strong. Wednesday on the first drop we had a triple hook up and boated the first two no problem the third one however was hooked in the side and played up on the leader. The hook pulled and with the Rod fully loaded and I copped a 300gm Lumo Abyss to my left eye.

My charter this day were a bunch of nice guys from Thailand however they seemed a bit over whelmed to see blood pouring from my eye. Lucky Josh from Freddys Fishing World was close by and was able to come aboard and administer first aid ! I stayed for another hour and whacked another 20 quality Kingy's and headed to home. I then spent the rest of the afternoon at Gosford Hospital where they stitched me up and then sent me straight off to the Eye Surgeon for further tests. Thankfully my Mako Sunnies ( the best fishing sunglasses on the market ) protected me from an even worse fate. Who said fishing is not a contact sport ! Lucky Eugene the Jigging Machine was able to help me out and we were back on the water and into it again the next morning.

Spoke to some mates in Townsville and The Townsville Light Tackle Tournament was brilliant with over 400 Marlin was hooked up. This should mean a bumper season for small Black Marlin at Port Stephens - Can't wait for that to come around !