I did my usual trick again this morning, weighing anchor around 5am and watching the sunrise on my own with coffee and rusk at hand.

I had a couple of trolling lines out, one hand reel as well as my trolling rod. About mid morning, while motoring, we had simultaneous strikes on both lures! Being a bit slow to get to the throttle, we lost the fish off the handline, but the reel-drag on the rod meant that one fish was still on and fighting. Peter killed the engine and I started bringing the fish in. Imagine my delight when I landed a 3kg frigate mackerel (a small tuna species)! This was going to feed us more than once!

We decided that we didn’t need any more fish, so the tackle was stowed. It was pretty messy cleaning the fish, but it was done and the gutted fish was stowed in the fridge for later.

The wind had been backing to the north, so I decided at the last minute to anchor in Whites Bay (Middle Percy Island) rather than West Bay. This gave us a lovely protected anchorage and we were soon exploring the beach.