With marine artist and photographer Craig Smith aboard and the action on the reef slow, we headed out to the seamount.

Day one saw Craig release Shaka's first Blue Marlin and late on day two John Hendry hooked up to this beauty.

We called it at 650lbs, but it gave #1 deckie Chris "Rusty" Ferguson more trouble than that - a swim was narrowly averted!

And to add insult to injury, she punched a hole in the side before departing.