Had an invite from a mate to head up to lancelin and chase some Dhu.

having moved to perth from carnarvon a few years back, he has found the metro fishing just a little bit tougher than it is back in his hometown (no surprises I guess).and unable to crack the elusive WA Dhu fish code

day 1 only saw one keeper(a solid pinky) over the side, but no shortage of 1-2cm undersized dhus !! . We fished until late and then came back and anchored just inside the island, ready for another crack at it the next day !!

day 2 greeted us with a 2m+ swell and huge rollers breaking to the north of the island, so after watching how the pros did it for a few minutes, we found the gap and cruised out to some ground we had found the previous day.  Things started off looking like we'd see a repeat of yesterday's effort. With the first drift producing a double header of JUST undersized Dhu .

Now I've been trying to slowly convert to fishing with artificials only, so the Terez/Spheros 8000PG is sitting in the rod holder bouncing whole squid on a paternoster while I'm working a McCarthy bullhead minnow on my little DAIWA "supacasta"/ Stradic CI4 2500 combo .....  Not even sure if I'm doing it right ?!? Having only been self taught from youtube and watching all the tv shows!! Then I sit the bloody thing down to tend to the baited rod and waddya know. The SP combo starts screaming !! A short fight that had the little Stradic regularly screaming in pain and up pops the first ever legal Dhu on the boats deck!!

There where high-5s and celebratory beers then it was back to business !! A few more hours passed and some bite offs on the bait rigs that could've only been sharks ! We headed out to a few spots we'd found in 50m .. Almost ready to pack in in for the day with only 1 Dhu and 1 pinky in the esky , I packed the SP of away and pick up the Terez .. Tap tap Strike... And it loads up .. I called Dhu after feeling the big tail beats and a few minutes later it was confirmed !! The hoodoo is broken and the monkey is off the back!! Can't say exact weights but I'd guess the small one about 6kg. The big girl easily pulled my 10kg scales to there limit so I'll go conservative at 12kg!? Your estimates are welcomed Luke