First day off Mindarie and PB Dhuie!!!
Went out of Mindarie for the first time ever! Below is the report. 
Mid last week, I got invited by fellow FW member Mark (keg) to go fishing today (07/03/17). Readily agreed and asked my boss to give me an extra day off. No probs (as usual! Haha). Have met Mark and a few others from the forum but never been on fishing trips with them, so today was the first time!
Anyway, Mark hasn't been very successful the last few times he went out so I promised to help him bring home a feed..
We got to the ramp just before 8am. After about 20 minutes of .......... (I'll let Mark elaborate if he wants to! Haha), we finally headed out. Water was quite nice even though the forecast seemed rougher! Got to the first spot, Mark set the anchor and I floated a mulie at the back of the boat. Within a few minutes, it was nabbed by a decent size squid. The mulie was on gang hooks and after a few attempts of hooking the squid and failing, I asked Mark to throw out a squid jig so I could "transfer" the catch. One shot and squid was in the esky. Things looked very promising indead!
Two hours went by with a heap of hookups but for some reason our hooks weren't holding! Decided to change spots. Same thing.. weird shit! Mark did manage a "just" undersize pinkie. After abit of persistence, it swam away to fight another day!
It was about 12:30pm when we decided to change to our final spot for the day. Within 1 minute of dropping line down, we had hook up after hook up of different fish; flathead, blackarses, wrasses (western kings) and another undersize pinkie. I had a few big "thumps" on the line and the fights lasted about 10 seconds before whatever fishes down there spat the hooks! And then came THE DHU!
It's my PB Dhu ever........in the "smallest category". Haha! Length was about 9cm. If theres any smaller Dhu out there, it must be in the embryo stage. Lol
Sorry if I was abit misleading with the "PB" in the title. Mark thought it was so funny that I should post it on FW...and I did. 
Anyway, many thanks Mark for a great day out! Even though not many really good fish were caught, I enjoyed being on the water and I delivered what I promised....you taking home a feed!
Hopefully I lived up to expectations as a deckie and there'll be many more good fishing memories to share! 
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
Dale
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Put it on your key ring Ash.
"Just because you are a Character, Doesn't mean you have Character."
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beau
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I think you might find that
I think you might find that is a western-striped cardinalfish. You'll have to try again for the mini dhu haha
Ashen
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You're right
Just googled western striped cardinalfish and its the same. Lol
The stripes made me think it was a baby dhuie. Thanks for the correction!
I'll leave the original post unedited..... lol
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
beau
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http://fishwrecked.com/image/
http://fishwrecked.com/image/first-dhuie-5
That's my "PB"
Ashen
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So modest.. lol
Being one of FW's legendary fishos, surely you would've beaten that "PB" by now..
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
Ashen
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A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
beau
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I think you're talking about
I think you're talking about a different bloke
Ashen
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Lol
Nope!
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
Hutch
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Top effort, I got a dhue
Top effort, I got a dhue that was no joke about 10cm in the river at kalbarri on a SP. Was definitely a dhu without a doubt
Travis p
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not a dhue
its a gobble guts heaps everywhere pain in the arse good live bait for tailor though
wont catch em sitting at home!
Ashen
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Lol
Yeah, I know that now...all thanks to Beau!
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
keg
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great day out
it was an embarrassing start to the day. note to remember if your boat has 2 bungs it`s not good enough to just put 1 in lol.....
it was good to finally get out for a fish with you kevin (ashen) and thanks for breaking the fishless drought for me :-) .
your welcome aboard anytime.
sea-kem
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Love the West!
Ashen
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Haha Mark
I DID ask you before we left home if you've put the bungs in....."yeah, all good, I have". Rightttttt! Lol
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
z00m
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Catch
Don't feel bad Kev, I travelled 26nm northwest from hillarys on Monday and managed a double header of a scorpion fish and a morey eel!
Ashen
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All good!
No, I didn't feel bad at all Michael. It was a great day out.
I do however. have this annoying feeling inside that Mark knew what the "baby dhuie" actually was but decided to play along when I called it a baby dhu. No wonder he thought it'll be great if I posted up the pic and was grinning & chuckling all the way back to the ramp! Mark, payback is (will be) sweet!! Lol
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!