Demersals, drummers and whales
Submitted by Jackfrost80 on Sun, 2017-07-09 18:00
Had my two youngest babysat by the grandies and took the Mrs and my 7y old out for his first demersal bash of Hillarys.
Headed straight to some good ground and the sounder was like xmas so rigged up while judging the drift line and we swung back around. The Mrs had a drift bait with circles and hooked up straight away and pulled in a 46cm snapper and I pulled in a 47cm Dhu on the jig. Second run and the Mrs hooked into something solid but dropped it. Third run she hooked into something she was struggling to even lift with her PE2 rod and 5000 reel and after a short fight dropped it again. My 'advice' was met with a "well you bloody hook something and bring it up yourself"... fair cop.
Rigged up the boy with a whiting rig and he was having a ball bringing up wrasse, a solid drummer, some small snapper and a nice flattie. It was about then the sledging began informing he he was 'fisherman of the day'.
The Mrs and I were pulling in a few more undersized snapper and dhus and I hooked into a nice fish on my PE2 outfit and after a good fight pulled in a 62cm dhu. The Mrs watched her rod go over and she was onto something huge and learning the lessons of the last two fish kept good pressure on the line and was working it like a pro. After a good 10 min fight I could see the leader and grabbed the gaff only to look down and see a massive chunk of Australia on the end of her hooks. Still laughing about it today and I've kept it as a souvenirfor the ages.
The highlight of the day was a minke whale that stayed with us all day swimming around and under the boat and my nature loving Mrs was in heaven seeing this magnificent creature up close. As you can see in the pics the conditions were shithouse 
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Officially off the Pies bandwagon
groverwa
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Thumbs down Photobucket users held to ransom
To all Photobucket users.
Please be advised that Photobucket is holding its members to ransom and will/has stopped photos from being used on 3rd party sites. Because of this there could once again be a loss of pics on Woodwork Forums and Metalwork Forums.
This could mean the loss of around 14 years of photo's hosted on Photobucket. Like other losses of photos on the forums this out of our control and there is absolutely nothing we can do about the loss of any pics hosted on Photobucket and linked to from this site.
I urge all Photobucket users to have a look at the below and maybe get your photos off that site and on to a memory stick or hard-drive for storage as this could spell the end of Photobucket, not to mention play merry hell with pics on these forums and almost all other forums, blogs etc, etc around the world.
Below is a couple of extract from news.com.au < Click link for more.
Photobucket, a US-based image and video-hosting website founded in 2003, quietly changed its policy late last month to prevent users from hosting their content on third-party websites unless they pay a $US400 ($526) annual fee.
Members who used the previously free service to store their content for use on auction sites, blogs and internet forums have discovered their images replaced with a message asking them to “update your account”.
The move means more than a decade worth of images hosted all over the internet have suddenly turned into broken links unless members sign up for one of Photobucket’s “competitive subscription plans”.
Diggedy
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Great read mate, spewin
Great read mate, spewin about the pics!
meglodon
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Bummer
All I can say is this is a bummer of a set up, does this mean the last of fishos posting up pics of their catch.
I certainly hope not, I really look forward to the pics and report members post up.
Diggedy
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Yea what a prick move by
Yea what a prick move by photobucket.
My pics are uploaded straight from my phone or computer to each thread, I'm glad I've never had to use a hosting site like photofuckit, seems as though all users will have to pay to unlock all of their photos they've stored over the years, dodgy.