To escape all the pre-Christmas madness Greg and I decided to get a few hours in the water on Christmas Eve. We got going early and were in the water by 6:30am, the very first thing I see under the boat is a nice fat King George Whiting laying in the dent left by a sleeping Stingray. I let Greg know and he was soon in the water and lining up on the Whiting, I managed to get the whole sequence on video too. We swam around for a while and saw a number of small Jewfish but nothing big enough to take, so we moved to a new location a few hundred meters further along the reef.
We swam around at the new location for a while and after seeing nothing of note moved to another location.
The next section of reef we looked at was quite shallow but looked very good and fishy, I have never looked at this area before despite having dived all around it for years. Sometimes I guess we overlook things that are right under our noses. Greg found a nice edge dropping into some slightly deeper water and after dropping to the bottom noticed a nice sized Jewfish looking out at him from the shadows. Greg was quite surprised to see such a good fish in so shallow water, but wasted no time in taking the fish for Christmas dinner.
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Greg's Christmas dinner fish.
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After the previous weeks catch of Crayfish the Jewfish topped things off and being the perfect size for a family was sure to go down a treat. We decided to call it a day as we both had preparations to make for the next day and enjoyed a leisurely ride back to the marina.
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