You've probably noticed the frequency of posts to the blog has changed a bit. This is due to the complexity of planning surrounding organising these skishing runs. Each one is unique regards depths, currents and features. We are making lots of recon trips, dives and of course, I'm still doing my guiding work... All takes time. Anyway...

The Skishing run talked about here is a short one by comparision but, it gets us into flow even on smaller neap tides. The main difference is the gutter is approaching 8  - 9 meters deep at the deepest point when we run it. This means we have 3 - 5 meters of flowing water running over the top of Japweed and bootlace weed beds. There are a few steep sided heads mid gutter that we catch and tonight was no different. It produced 2 fish before we made the jump into the main flow.

We headed out in what little daylight was left. I was fishing heavy, 7g head + lure. Kev was fishing 4" Xlayer on splitshot rig. No point in us emulating each other and my plan was to punch down into the weed column whilst Kev, well, he was to drift up in the layers above it.

First one of the skish falls to the 4" splitshot rig. Nice Bass.

30 minutes went by with odd takes and I missed a cracking fish that lunged at the 5" Senko just as I lifted it off to re-cast. Kev nails another good-un on the splitshot rig totally on the dead drift.

We catch those mid gutter heads for Kev to swing his Xlayer into the mouth of this Bass. I'd just had a take moments before I took this photo. I re-cast to the same area....this time with a 4" lure to show it a profile similar to Kev's Xlayer.

A nice Bass comes to hand.

I passed the camera over to Kev to take this shot before this fish, like all the others was returned unharmed back into the blackness.

Straight tails again ruled the roost, again, fished very light despite the deeper water.

Kev took 1 more Bass just before we yet again became land lubbers and the wetsuits emptied warmed water into our boots.

The fish are coming..