Cockburn Sound dolphin
Bear with me for a few mins please. I bought an Ocean Whaler about 10 months ago and have spent that time launching and hanging around the Swan and Canning rivers. I needed to make sure I was competent enough before I ventured out to sea.
Yesterday, I took the boat with my mate down to Woodmans Ramp and went out into Cockburn Sound. I had done a load of homework using this site for fishing spots, mainly squidding for the day as I just fancied having a bash at it. Even though we didnt do too well, it was still a brilliant day out. Noone told me about all the dolphins that show off around the boats! We ended up finding squid in an area south west of the ramp that is shown as 11ft on my gps not too far away from Pinnacles Rock. I assume that is quite a good place to go as we caught half a dozen in two drifts.
Now the question I have is this......who is this fella that comes and visits the boats. Im guessing that he / she has been fed by anglers and boaties in the past as he hung around for a good few minutes each time he visited us. As we didnt feed him, he only gave us a flying visit on the third occasion.
Does anyone know the history of this or can shed light on the fine creature?
greasemonkey
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Date Joined: 08/05/09
HOOK
I think his name is hook , There is a story about him here.
http://www.dolphins.com.au/perth-dolphins-and-sea-lions-envirofund.html
He is really friendly so i use to keep a few wrasse for him ,but since reading this story i dont feed him anymore .
wide open
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Date Joined: 24/12/09
yer
this dolphin came up to our boat once off woodies jumping out of the water for fish haha
roberta
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Date Joined: 08/07/08
If its the same one
he is about 35yrs to 40yrs old, used to come right into our ramps at the CPBA, we had a bosun that had a ridge back (Jake RIP) and Jake used to swim with the dolphin, the dolphin would call out and Jake would bark (have photos of the both of them), then in he'd go. But somebody said this old dolphin had died last year. Used to call the bloke from the University the dolphine man think he was studying (the club let him use the facilities) them from Curtin, keeping a tally, the life of them, breeding, health etc. Thats were I got my info from for the old male dolphin.
We don;t feed them either, or the pelicans etc
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matypaps
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Date Joined: 07/07/10
cockburn sound dolphin round up
last time i seen the cs dolphin i fed him a couple of mulies and with in min he rounded up with his mates a big school of snapper like a sheep dog. which we then fished for over an hour with dolphins diving betwen making it easy to keep an eye on the school.
i have photos of him but cant work out how to post them..
this happened 2 days before the last full moon
do the math, find the answers, set the traps, catch the fish.....