Dinghy dhuie delight day
Decided with the awesome weather prediction, to venture a bit further north yesterday, and beach launched a few hours drive up.
Found a likely looking bit if rubble in 35m that had a spattering of fish a few meters above the bottom. Ended up being a school of just undersize pinkies that we're snaffling baits before they even hit the bottom, although a 50cm king George was found amongst them. The drift was almost non existent, and only about 20m away from the initial ground, the sounder showed a few more solid dots, and me and dan dropped at the same time....
BANG farkin BANG! We both load up, and dan comes up first with a 9kg dhu and a baldie! Mine taking a bit longer on the talica 8 and pe3, after about a good 6 or 7 minutes, up pops a double header of 14 and 5kg dhu bangers! Checked my watch, and it's just gone 8:30am!!
We try a few more drops, but all we were gettin was more dhus, so called last drop. Dan loads up big time, but with no solid tail thumps, soon realised this was no sambo or dhu, and a good 20 mins later on pe3 and a Saragossa 10, up glides a 2.5m tiger. She wins her freedom and is cut loose.
Esky lookin pretty good, we decide to troll the back edge of the reef, and head back home a bit earlier. A strike 10 mins into the troll, in 24m, had me thinkin the day couldn't get any better. A short 5 min fight had the unconfirmed spaniard a few meters under the boat, when it changed colour and morphed into a frikkin sambo. Guuuutttteeeedddddd!! Called it a day not long after that, as the breeze was startin to come in, and retrieval was always going to be tricky with the soft sand and swell building. Had some major dramas pulling the boat up when the winch strap snapped on the trailer. FARK. In no time at all, the waves started crashing over the back of the dinghy, and if it wasn't for the 6 tonne winch on my hilux, I would've lost the boat there and then. It literally filled up 3/4 with water, and probably would've weighed close to 3 tonne. We manage to drag it up the beach with the car winch, drain the water out, and finally had just enough length to tie the strap to the dinghy and winch the trailer under it. All up, a good day!
sea-kem
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Oh yeah! Nice Dhu bangers
Oh yeah! Nice Dhu bangers Scotto, man I'm gonna hit it hard this weekend.
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Lamby
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Boom!Tidy work
Boom!
Tidy work
Rig
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nice
Nice work there on the small boat big fish, I know Dan looks like he just stepped out from behind the wickets lol. Good photo of him hooked up anyway
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Onya's done well quick
Onya's done well quick mission on the dhu's .. good size shark too , I take it you didn't release her via a knife strapped to a pole lol .. the winch strap snapping would've got the adrenalin pumping and would've been worth a few swear words .. glad it didn't turn into a nightmare .
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dumper
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Something's just not right.
Something's just not right. The real Scotto would have dived in, punched the tigers teeth out before ripping its intestines out through its anus then surfing its carcass into cottesloe beach singing Whitney Houston's " I will always love you" to the greenies
MattMiller
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LOL
SpotHound
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How big?
How bigs the boat
scotto
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Dinghy
4.75 sea jay dinghy
SpotHound
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Noice
Very noice. mine os only 3.75m and still a bit cautious about going to far out.
Markie
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too lovely. Big fish small
too lovely. Big fish small boats :)
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Mark
I gather you 'marked' that spot. LOL
Good fishing scotto.
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elliotbirch
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That's a sweet day out! Just
That's a sweet day out! Just got a 4.5m stessco centre console and looking for some good fishing in it
mc
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Just bought my first boat,
Just bought my first boat, dory 420, this thread is giving me a chubby. Think we might need a winch though
mc
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Just bought my first boat,
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Paul G
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Very nice fish .Looks like a
Very nice fish .Looks like a nice sized dingy. Doing it in comfort. well done.
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dkonig82
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very nice!
very nice!
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scotto
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Cheers fellas
It's a good feeling when you can successfully target big fish from a little boat!
yeah Paul, it is a very comfy dinghy. Glad I went the extra half metre, as it's 300 wider and 300 deeper than the 4.2m's. I've decked it out pretty well too, and getting my money's worth out of it for sure! Best part is I used about 10 litres fuel to do over 30kms!
tantrum
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Nice catch Scotto!... You
Nice catch Scotto!... You can't beat the convenience and utilitarian aspect of the humble dinghy. I love my 460 dory.
Seaquest
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Nice work. Wish I'd only use
Nice work. Wish I'd only use 10lt of fuel to get a bag like that. Most of the time it's ten times that amount.