Well done Ants. Nice fish and good to see you footing it with the enemy (Bluefins) on Redquarters. - Snoop

Yep - it was a fun trip and this was my first real attempt at burleying properly! I got dropped one morning on a piece of coast on the Sou-Eastern corner of GBI with 2 or 3 promising looking points and some not so promising looking bays. After snooping the first point and managing to spook a couple of fish I decided to try my hand at setting a burley on the next one. A drummer swam past so it was sacrificed to the cause and then it was time to find a good spot to set a burley. The chosen spot was a weedy ledge at 2m that dropped away to a small gutter round 5 or 6 metres. I flayed the drummer and set it in the gutter with a rock on its head to hopefully stop it being dragged off into the depths then proceded to smash enough kina to feed a small village. Swam away to let it do its thing for 20 minutes (and shoot a butterfish) only to return and see 4 pannies and a slghtly larger snapper chowing down. In my excitement I stuffed the shot and came up with nothing! Kicking myself I decided to leave it again for another 20 minutes and see if anything came back in. This time I managed to grab an average size crayfish a few 100m down the coast then return for a look-see. Peering carefully through the weed I saw the tail of a lone snapper. Wanting to make sure of the shot this time I extended the gun and slowly drifted down to close the gap and take the shot from above. I was pleased to stone the fish with the shaft passing through the top of the head and out just behind the gill-plate. As an aside, I should have gone back to that piece of coast in the afternoon! I dropped Matt of Wild Blue there and went to a different piece of coast myself. Matt managed a bigger fish off the burley I had set that morning - proof that a good burley can keep working. - Phantom Menace