Day of the Dolphinfish - Magic
 Gurnard
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 Tuna
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 Dolphinfish
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 Marks
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 Small
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 Boltz's
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Well, we got blown to south africa first thing this morning. Managed to get half a dozen small flathead and one decent sized one. We then spent the next 5 hours waiting for the wind to drop fishing the desert. Just after lunch we headed out to the hundred metre mark and found schools of 1kg tuna which were a bit of fun on the light stuff.
We then headed out to the fads and trolled around them for a while with a few inquisitive dollies. Then the idea to berley up came along and wallah, we were into them.
We managed to land 5 dolphinfish, lost 3, 2 to the fads and 1 jumped out of the net and snapped off. I have some awesome photos and some SIIIIICK video footage that I will get to editing this week. Our day was saved by some awesome aerobatics, line peeling action on the light gear and a few beers on the way home.
What an afternoon of fishing!!! Its is one of the best feelings I've had from fishing in a long time and am still amped after the dolly session that was put on. STOKED is one word that comes to mind!
Video snippets will be out this week once I've done some editing.
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Spooled
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Date Joined: 06/08/05
Good day out!!
Look like an awesome day Ads. Just remember that your just warming for Exmouth!! What weight do those Dollies get to and on average what KG were the ones that you got into?
Fishwrecked
Posts: 110
Date Joined: 03/10/05
Dollies
Say they were probably 3kg each. We lost one that was in the net that literally jumped out and would have gone close to 5kg, if not a little bigger. I've seen bull dolphinfish up to 21kg on a few international websites. Have seen a few local fish around 14kg at the end of the season. These ones should be up around the 8-10kg mark in a couple of months and hopefully they will still be out there.
Had to do 100km yesterday to get them! Look foward to getting into Exmouth when you only have to do a couple of clicks to be on the shelf, bring it on!!!!!