Well I am now officially a jetski fisherman, had two trips out so far. Setup is almost complete, my Ultimate Rod Holder finally arrived, a week to get from NZ to Oman then three weeks for the post office here to tell me it had arrived !!!! Just need to mount the Garmin GPS/FF and all is set, think I have finally decided on the best way to do it and finally got all the pieces I need, count yourselves lucky you can just go to a home depot and get what you want, you wouldn't believe the amount of time it has taken me to find just a simple connector for the battery.

Back to the report, weather here is a little bit windier than normal conditions, change in season I guess and yesterdays was possibly the worst I have ever been out in. Only good thing is it is a nice 25-30C so thin shorty wetsuit more than sufficient.

Started off no problem, had a run of approximately 10 miles to where I wanted to go fishing in some sheltered bays over hard coral reefs, wind on my back so now problems getting there but knew I was in for a more interesting trip back but didn't realise just how interesting. I knew the area I went too was stuffed with fish as I go snorkeling there regularly but not noticed any predators but suppose they normally wait in ambush so not easy to spot. Fished for about and hour and landed four nice groupers, even had two hanging off the same lure at one time, biggest was only about 4 pounds but perfect dinner size and very nice they were too. All of them were caught on a slow tick over troll using a orange and white rapala slashbait , surprisingly poor fighters for a sea fish but good fun on light tackle none the less.

The winds were picking up and I could see from the sheltered bays I was fishing that the sea was getting rougher by the minute so choice made I headed for home. This trip could in no way be considered fun, the wind was blasting the spray straight into my face and I had waves breaking over the ski, as a submarine the FX handling itself perfectly and after what would have been a 15-20 minute trip I eventually made it back over and hour later.

Just to show how rough it was both wire traces I had broke in the middle due to the constant banging around and I lost both lures, but, and a very important but, all the important tackle was still with me, rods in place and URH hadn't moved an inch, so was the wait and the money I spent on it worth it, a definite yes.

Hopefully will have GPS fitted for the next trip and if someone can give a full description of how to post photos I will upload a few (I am good up to the load them to Photobucket part then cant seam to get the link into the posts)

Looking forward to being able to post bigger and better catches, the big tuna and sailfish are just offshore at the moment and their are always the GT's, Queenfish and Kingsfish to be had, not sure what I will do if I hook into any of those but that will be a nice problem to solve.

Tight lines.

Thank you for your report it's really interesting, I really appreciate it. If I can see the pics it's much much better. There are many new members on this site that go on and ask many questions but they never return back with a report. And you are the one that posted a report back to us,once again thanx alot, its one of the nice things to share with us. I believe that alot of members on this site would like to know about other fishermans' fishing trips and learn something new. To all fishermans please feel free to share with us.

send me a private message next time if you need connectors or anything like that. i'll ship them out to you.