Sunday Fun-day!

It was a bit of a shock to the system when Johnno told me he had to work today: SUNDAY!!

Beautiful stormy season here in Exmouth WA at the moment.

Sundays are for fishing, full stop!  Nothing else, definitely NOT working!!  So I was a little lost this morning with what to do with myself once Johnno had gone to work...do I go fishing by myself?  hahaha can I be that much of a bitch girlfriend?  Go it alone while the man is out earning the hard earned cash to keep the house running?  Um, he is lucky it was windy!!  I played good wifey, staying in to clean and do food prep instead.  Luckily for both of us, he came home at lunch time just as the wind was dropping off!!

We packed Black Thing in a flash!  The wind is so unpredictable, we didn't want to miss our chance of getting out, even if it was only for a short while.  Not wanting to go too far in the afternoon, knowing the wind was going to pick up again shortly, we headed straight out from the marina to where we had seen and caught tuna the week before.

Karen's first fish for 2017, caught the week before.
I did not get around to writing a blog about it, but might still make a YouTube clip
 as it was heaps of fun on my light weight gear!

Bits of bait and a few birds working, had us slowly drifting further out and around, unsure what to do.  Cast at fast moving bait schools here, chase some birds there.  Nik Minit: Free Jumping Sailfish!!!  And again, and again and again, WOW what a beautiful sight!!

We are always so indecisive on tackle when we just 'pop out for a quick fish'.  What to do, where to go.  We had been trolling, flicking, and popping, but then out come the Sailfish gear.  Trolling with skirts, teasers out, high on hopes.  Johnno's rod bent over, 'take me, take me now'!  Ah ok, lets slow it down a fraction here, reminder to you all that I have never caught a sailfish before, so Johnno (such a gentleman??) insisted (loudly) that I take the rod.  But it was his rod running, so I was not prepared for this, I was in full 'get the gear out of the way' mode.  Chaos rained for a split second before we both went into battle mode...both to realise very quickly that it was most likely NOT a sailfish :(

But I was still on a good first fish for the afternoon and ever so thankful that Johnno gave me his rod ;)

First fish for this afternoon, Tervalley caught while trolling for Sailfish.

Excitement wained a little after this.  No more sailfish sightings, and not much bird activity, brought us back to trolling deeper lure's again.  

When the birds started working around us again, we were quick to pull in the trolling lure's, not having had much luck on them anyway.  Johnno sped ahead to catch up with the schooling bait fish.  First cast of my heavy popper and I was on with in seconds!  It was bloody perfect!

Heaps more fun on my light weight casting gear!

Thanks again Johnno for being such an awesome skipper and letting me catch all the fish! xxx

Photo from last week: Johnno brought me a selfie stick!
He also got a new hat, more protection from the sun, he is now known as: Johnno the Hat!
:)