blooded the boat
Submitted by petermac on Sat, 2013-06-01 20:59
blooded the boat for the first time on what is now the second trip out on my new boat got my first ever legal duhie (just) cooked and eaten already first time I have eaten duhie and got to say they are the best fish I have ever ate also got 2 black arse and a nice ocean sweep all in 10meters on 5 fathom bank and a beautiful cod type fish that went 4 kg that was iridescent blue that we released couldn't get a photo of it as the camera battery was flat any one out there that might know what it was???

Redemperor000
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nice one. perhaps the fish
nice one. perhaps the fish was a western blue devil?
petermac
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just googled
I just googled western blue devil fish and this fish looked more cod like and went 4kg on the lie detector scales apparently wbd fish only get to about 1.5 kg wish the camera had been working
Yewiefish85
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Harlequn maybe?
Harlequn maybe?
duges66
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Happy for ya petermac
Read a few times where you've mentioned you were yet to catch a sized Dhuie, so good on ya mate for crackin' that one. 10kg club next?
There's 3 kinds of people in this world, those who can count and those that can't.
sammy85
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Blue grouper?
Blue grouper?
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petervb
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Sounds like a blue grouper
Sounds like a blue grouper but at that size I thought they were all females and green
catchalittle
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Well done Pete
Well done Pete
Nathan
Browndog
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Great stuff
Nice job PM, glad to hear you finally got it.
I'm still working on my first size pinky & dhu from the five fathom, hope to see you out there one day.
BD.