Dampier Wide
We headed out today for a bit of a recon trip to suss some new jigging ground. Unofortunately we didn't manage to get to our intended destination as it was a little bit out of our reach in the conditions today. Alas, we still managed to get some 60km out and found some nice ground with some pretty good potential. Did a bit of jigging and bait fishing and caught various fish on both methods, trout, rankins, estuary cod, red emperor. Glenn managed an exceptional rankin on a jig and I went for a lip gaff job (because we left the landing net at home) and as I lifted him into the boat, lip gaff pulls out, rankin falls back into water, assist hooks fall out = good rankin self releasing :( On the last drop of the day I hooked something really good and somehow it managed to grow about 100kg half way but and I ended up pulling up a STONKER spango head with one of the biggest sharks I've seen hot on it's tail... grrr. Anyway all in all an enjoyable day on the water, didn't bag out but got a good feed and found some nice ground for some future trips, plus plenty more exploring to do further afield when the conditions allow :) Here's some pics from the day.
Kelvin8r
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Jealous
nice work boys! i spent the day vacuming and mopping and mowing the lawns
Craig Pearse
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Well done M8Y, had to work
Well done M8Y,
had to work this weekend and as always its a cracker. How good was Sat. Spewing about the rankin. Tuesdays looking good for me as there some ground i found very wide while billfishing that I want to check out(fingers crossed). Jealous yes but glad you had a gooood day
jay_burgess
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Today the wind was actually
Today the wind was actually very light and it didn't blow up right until the end of the day but the water was really sloppy I think due to the fact it's been blowing right out of the north.... it should have been almost glassy with the amount of wind we had but it was no where near. Yesterday looked great on the weather observations but I don't know what the water was actually like and unfortunately I couldn't get out.
Bones76
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Few Daiwa's there Jay...
Few Daiwa's there Jay... thought you were a Shimano man?
Coming over to the darkside?
jay_burgess
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lol most of them aren't
lol most of them aren't mine... but the 2 shimanos on the right are :)
Webby
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looks like a good fun day
looks like a good fun day mate. well done
I live with fear every day... sometimes she lets me go fishing.
DazSamFishing
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Good stuff. What jigs were
Good stuff. What jigs were you using?
jay_burgess
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some lucanus jigs some
some lucanus jigs some fisherman jigs.
Lucky Tim
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love the action shot. Makes
love the action shot. Makes me want to get back out there asap.
damo6230
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good work guys.
beats working.
was going to say looks like no real wind but you explained yourself.