Fishing from the shore at Roonga point north of Seisia. I had four land based trips to the north of our camp. I fished the rocky points in the hope of picking up a barra. The water was very clear, which made luring a little tricky. The bottom was generally coral below the low water mark. The black lip oysters are the biggest I have seen and all of the large ones had been opened "picked" very recently. The tides can be very fast and unpredictable to those used to tide patterns on the east coast. On my excursions I caught 11 species of fish. Here is a sample of some of the bigger fish.
Tarpon in this photo. On this morning I was completely spooled by a big trevally. My 15 kg line with the drag locked up made little impression. I also nailed a small coral trout. While he was about 40 cms long, I didn't have the heart to kill him and like all other fish I let him go.
Wolf herring. I kept this fish because he had died by the time I got the trebles out of him. I took him Seisia to give to Daniel Finch to use as bait. Both Daniel and the other guide were disappointed because we cut him in three to fit into the small upright freezer. They wanted him whole to troll for mackrel. They use fish this size to get the bigger mackrel.
Queenfish. My favourite lure, the popper, suckered this nice queenie. I landed about 5 queenies and quite a few small trevally during these trips.
Barra. Not as many as I woud have thought. The country looked very good with shallow muddy bays adjoining the points. The mud is not the oozy type, it as a lot of sand with it.