australia day
With the weather finally looking favourable we decided to head north with the wife Sal, son Nathaniel and daughter Jo. Left home at 6.00 for the two hour trip, got to Lancelin at about 8.00 to be geeted at the beach by a tractor bogged. feeling very confident now of a beach launch we went where there were plenty of other 4 wheel drives. fortunately everything went well for us.
headed out through the reef with the wind still howling, so decided to sit around and catch some bait till the wind dropped, about an hour later with the wind dropping headed out for the 30-40 metre mark. on the way the sounder was showing a great amount of structure and fish, so thought we would give it a go. first drop and nathaniel is on, landing a nice baldie, it went quiet so we moved on the sounder lit up again so round we go and second drop next it was Jo's turn with the fish putting up a reasonable fight. we knew it was something decent, she soon had colour revealing her first ever dhuie,74cm and 7.2 kg.
next was my turn, after a short fight another dhuie 75cm, 7.3kg [phew I just beat her] then Nathaniel brings up another baldie, at last Sal is on and up comes a small blackarse, with her complaining that she can only get small the small ones she drops her bait over again and yes she's on this time it is more serious, she soon has colour a nice dhuie about 90cm 11.2 kg. now she's smiling, but what a day throwing good size dhuies back because you already have your limit is hard, but thats the rules.
Decided at this stage to ring the brother in law who had knocked back the offer to come out wth us, while on the phone my line decided to take off so threw the phone to Nathaniel to keep talking while I reeled in a nice baldie, then it was his turn, I think at this stage my brother in law hung up to go cut his wrists or something, well nathaniel brought up another two dhuies in quick succession, then a small blackarse. by this time the esky was looking rather healthy, two dhuies, four baldies, two blackarse, we were done, had our limit of demersals, so with the wind picking up it was a slow wet trip back home but you couldnt wipe the smiles from our faces with our best ever nearly local trip ever.
meglodon
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australia...you are living the dream
no better way to spend australia day
fisher12
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great
great stuff mate
Anytime Brad
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great stuff
got to love a day like that, hope I have the same luck up there next week!
I would rather be fishing
Spitfire56
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Well done!
Well done sounds like a great day, kids hooked on fishing that's for sure. Always thought of a beach launch at lancelin.... How did you go, what boat, car ect was it easy?
bullwing
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Lancelin
Just wondering your thoughts on beach launching a 24 foot fiberglass boat at lancelin. I don't suppose anyone is there with a tractor that you can pay to put your boat in like coral bay. Have a list of spots
there but very nervous about the beach launch with a heavy boat. Any comments appreciated. Cheers Andrew
ab
Anytime Brad
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Tractor needed
I would be very reluctant to launch a 24 foot fiberglass boat without a tractor up there. I launch my 5m Ali Ok but have been stuck a couple of times over the years, nothing a good dig didnt fix. All the locals with bigger boats use a tractor. Unfortunately don’t know anyone with one
I would rather be fishing
jeffh
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re beach launch
My boat is 5.4m fibreglass, a heavy old pride gazelle I tow with a holden jackaroo not had any problems beach launching but I always make it as quick as possible and try to pick my spots, was definately worth the risk.
Spitfire56
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Ok thanks
My boat is 5.75 glass so should be no worries with the Prado..... Also a thought for bullwing, would be to go with a second boat/ 4wd and launch one at a time, at least you can leave the boat on the road and assist if one gets stuck, if that makes sense
bullwing
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Beach launch
Thanks for the advice.
Cheers Andrew
ab
JoeH
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Brother out law now
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah bro,
Might as well rub it in while you can! :)
As it turns out I had immense fun at home working on the block.....as you know!
Just wait 'til I get me boat sorted out mate, will be on for young an old ( <---- like you!)
Oh, and thanks for the invite to pop around and LOOK at your catch when you got home...... ;)
Was definately a winner of a day for ya's, and thanks for sharing some tasty fish!
Cheers,
Joe
PS that phone call was rediculous, could just see the phone being passed from one to the other to the other when you were hooking up :)
The smaller the icebox you take, the bigger the fish will be.
crasny1
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T shirt in your Avatar
Explains exactly what happened to you on that day doesnt it.
But well done to the BILaw. Sounds like a great day. How many Dhu's caught not kept?
"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact!!" _ Elon Musk
Jiggs
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Nice haul.
Sounds like a great day!
Lost the title of the biggest dhu between us now tho dammit.
Will hav to fix that ;)
In it to win it!!!
jeffh
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australia day
Was better than a great day, we caught five dhuies, released three, could probably have caught a heap more but the wind was starting to really pick up so decided to head in