Accompanied by dad Phil, deckie Jim Marshall and captain, uncle Mitch Ball, the crew motored north of Broughton Island and settled over the extensive reef system shortly after sunrise.

With pilchards, slimy mackerel and squid for bait all was in readiness for the big strike.

Then a plastic was tossed in and whacko!

Something big took off like the last bus to Anna Bay.

After a mighty struggle a magnificent five kilo snapper rolled on its side before being netted into the boat.

This is the time of the year when snapper cover the deep and shallow reefs from Birubi to Seal Rocks.

As mentioned in previous weeks, plastics are becoming increasingly popular particularly for cracking snapper similar to Molly’s.

Inside the harbour all the talk is about flathead and mulloway.

Flathead are gathering on the sand in the warm shallows that rim the port particularly on high tide, dusk and dawn.

Mulloway have gathered in the deeper holes around Middle Island and over the Corlette wreck. Live bait will do the trick.

While the beaches are alive with whiting.