Spring is an interesting time of year to fish out of Sydney. The Kingfish start setting up on the offshore and inshore reefs, Yellowfin can be found and quite often we get an early run of Striped Marlin and big Mahi Mahi as well as some of the other summer species. And this was surprisingly the case when I went out yesterday. I say surprising because on looking at the charts the current inshore was running to the East and out wider to the North with no apparent temperature breaks, not really conducive to good fishing. After taking Su, his girlfriend and her friend out the previous weekend when they all got seasick Su was keen to have another shot. The girls however gave it a miss. Anyway, we headed out to the 12 mile and to let Su do some jigging. It looked very quiet and after a few fruitless jigs we left and trolled out, heading for Browns. Between the eighty and ninety fathom lines there were huge bait schools, some deep some high up with Gannets flying high above. There had to be a Marlin around but sadly we never saw one, however a couple of other boats did see cruising Marlin and at least one free jumper. After working the area for quite a while I headed out wider and in five hundred fathoms found a temperature break where there were small schools of Striped tuna popping up on each side of the break. I always run a small lure on fifteen kg. line for the clients who do enjoy catching the Stripies. Well as luck would have it after we’d caught a couple of Stripies the rod went off and it was apparent this was no Stripy. After nearly half an hour Su brought the fish to the boat. We saw it was a nice Yellowfin in the order of thirty five kilo’s, a great effort by Su on his first big fish. Incidentally the fish coughed up several small fish of which I could only identify one, a green toad the others were pretty well digested but had the shape of bream, about six centimetres long. After working the area with nothing other than more Stripies I headed back inshore where a couple of boats had found Mahi Mahi around the bait near the shelf. In eighty five fathoms I found them too. We caught two and lost one. A fine end to an interesting day, it was time to go home. So, we found early season Mahi Mahi, caught a Yellowfin among Stripies, heard of a few Marlin and saw heaps of Whales and Dolphins to top off my clients day. Who could ask for more from a most unexpected day’s fishing. Tight Lines, Ivan