Well done good size on plastics ,bet she went hard in the shallows.

must have been a thrill at the time

Nice fish from the shallow. Congrats on the PB.

Kilo or Pound ?

I like your scales if its kilos

looks like you have plastics figured out!

well done, i dont think the pic shows the true size but looks big enough.shallow water big fish go strong so great effort on light gear

An yer crazy Dhufish 12.5kg mate i'm not a small fellow 6'3 and 100kgs my photos never do the fish justice lol and i dont need to BS mate I catch so many good fish up here I wouldn't waste my time.

Thanks for the info Michael and you gave me the other week about Gulps and colours, they do work got a Dhie first time out. Thing they will be used on one of the rods that are over the side every time i go out in future.

Good shallow water dhuie on plastic mate, you have some cracker photos. Wouldn't mind dragging the tub up that way for a fish

Thanks for the kind comments crew plastics is my speciality and yer she went hard alright especially on light spin gear, no worries Kingfisher i'm more than happy to help with advise on plastics, and yer Lamby i'm always fishin and always keen to get out for a fish if you are coming up my way hit me a PM and we will organise something if ya like.

Great fish mate, good to see the placcys are working well for ya, keep putting up the pics hey.

Hey mate what sorta plastics you using slapstix work great!!Been bricked by big dhuies using them more than once

Dw mate sometimes photos dont show there true size aye i put up a picture of a dhuie weigh bout 9-10 kilo n people said it was a little tacker not even size. camera angle , picture quality , colour all come into it , cracker of a fish, an who has time to bullshit these days ?

Cheers Brody yer I've been cleaning up on the plastics for a while now and don't worry there's no shortage of pics i'll put a few up soon. An thanks for the comment Dhuboi i'm with you hard to get a good photo, especially when ya in a hurry to get the plastic back in the water ha ha and Nelly i mainly use Squidgys in the 110 - 145mm size and Gulp jerkshads in 4 - 7 inch and i also use bay rubber style jigs when the wind and current are up.

Anytime mate , i hear ya you get a decent fish in the boat rush to get a photo slap it in the esky n get fishing again while the fish are there. I might have to try some placcy , tried throwin a few octo jigs down and some tsunami 6 inch placcis only to score a few wrasse n some black arse cod , hopefully get a dhuie on a placci soon , . Decent fish mate no better thrill then seeing that colour come up out of no where

I would have thought 13m was shallow, and using light gear make me think you where after something else and the big bad boy came along as a surprise. I would have loved that.

Same thing happened to me in Dampier Saturday. Was on a reef with lots of NW snapper, especially Spanglees which are few and far between here sometimes. Drifted a Mulie out on a gang to try and get a big one of these on the Barra Impoundment Rod with a Curado low profile OH, and got slammed by a 12kg Mackie, which caused a few hairy moments wondering about beein spooled. Managed to use a bit of thumb drag on dry braid with the burn to prove it. Awesome fight on light ish gear.

For Dinner tonight!

Neels

Nice catch on the light OH gear Neels that Mack would of pulled some serious string for sure, and yer i usually always fish shallow reefy/coral in 4-18m for my Dhus, Baldys, Trout, Sambos, Pinkys etc with plastics, and when i say light i mean 3000 Stella and pe3 6'6 Bayrubber Spin rod 20lb braid. I mainly catch and release so fishing the shallow stuff is better for realeasing the fish, and I catch a lot and I mean a lot of fish in the shallows where i live. Cheers 

Yer mate i've got more plastics than the tackle shop i work at ha ha tried them all and feild tested pretty much all of em. I've had divers dive on my plastics over at the Abrohlos Islands and they are amazed at how well they work, the plastics i mainly use at the moment have been the most effective for me over the last 18 months but yer the snap backs are great an i also smear some s factor on them but mainly only use snap backs when toothy critters are around. And as for results last 6 trips out have resulted in over 80 Dhuies all on plastics. Cheers 

wicked fish there mate especially in the shallows. nothing better then a rampaging dhu in under 15 meters