Bread & Butter Bycatch
Hi All, went for a fish with the Old Man yesterday.
Plan was to drag the lures for hopefully a mackie. Trolled the whole south side of Rotto and around the west end for nothing, fair bit a of weed about made it a bit painfull more so towards the eastern end of the island. Anyways after a couple of hours of this we decided to head back towards the eastern end of the island and find some shallower ground to try and get a feed of KG's or Skippy.
We found a good looking patch on the sounder that was showing fish in about 16m of water. Threw the pick in and dropped the baits in to see what we could rustle up. The old mans rod got touched up and proceeded to pull in a nice KG, not a bad start. We both went on to get a few skippy, wrase and an under size baldie.
Couple of minutes later Dad gets a solid hit and the rod buckles over. In typical style he calls it straight up for a sambo and suggest " this will be rig for sure".
In pretty quick time he had it off the bottom and being so shallow I made the outline of what looked to be a Dhu. Told him to whoa up a bit and take his time only fishing with a #2 bait keeper hook. Got it to the surface and netted a very nice little buck Dhu @ 75cm on the little whitting set up. Not an amazing capture but considering what we were after and the set up being used thought it worthy of a mention. All in all ended up with a pretty good couple of feeds.
Here's a pic of the the Old Man looking pretty pleased with himself.
Notorious
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Great by-catch - Dhu on a
Great by-catch - Dhu on a whitting set up is awesome.
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Gunner966
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Awesome effort Chris - got
Awesome effort Chris - got to be happy with that by catch . Obviously no luck with the Mackies. I went out and checked my occy pots today and saw a massive bust up unfortunately I was halfway through checking my pots, by the time I had finished the wind was howling. So decided to head in and left the birds to it.
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Boydy
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Nup
Hey Gunner, cheers mate but not going to take any credit away from Dad.
He put the good fish on the boat yesterday.
Yes a bit disappointed on the Mackie front, ah well always next time.
Keen for a chat on how you went with the occy pots.
Catch up soon.