First decent Jigged metro Dhu

 Hey guys

Finally the gods played ball and I managed to try out my new combo that's been sitting there for over 2 months.

After constantly bugging the skipper to get out he was convinced. Plan was to launch from woodies, pull his pots and drop a jig or two before the wind picked up. Now the fun started when the skipper forgot the power extension cable for his cray winch so that meant a workout. I can personally say pulling a pot from 40m when it hadn't been pulled for a while was less than fun. The slime and growth off the rope ended up everywhere but we had a laugh but weren't too keen on pulling the other pot.

Now the skipper is quite well known being Josh from Oceanside. Can't thank him enough for pretty much taking me under his wing to teach me the tricks of the trade, this guy knows what he is doing

Sounded around for a bit with josh explaining what to look for and what was what on the sounder. Found some fish so the new stella and jm titanium combo dropped down a lamble. Dropped straight into a fishs mouth and I was expecting it so I dropped the fish. So back around to start the second drift, dropped down started jigging and bang I have never felt a hit like this or had a dhuie fight this hard.  Josh had a ball laughing at me getting stretched.  This thing popped up. To say I was happy was an understatement.

unfortantly this is the only photo I got of the day due to the excitement of fish on the sounder when we brought other fish onboard. Finished with this 10.2kg dhu another 55cm dhu and a strange catch on jig a nice size flaty.

Great day on the water and it's not often that the apprentice out fishs his trainer haha sorry josh.

 

cheers boys

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Shit hot, gota be stoked.

Tue, 2014-02-25 06:26

Shit hot, gota be stoked. Mate got a flatty ona jig few weeks back, agro predators

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nice fish mate

Tue, 2014-02-25 17:27

 nice fish mate you will be glad to know we went and pulled the pot u guys rebaited on the weekend and got a couple nice crays from it haha 

 

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 Haha well at least the

Tue, 2014-02-25 19:58

 Haha well at least the suffering wasn't for nothing mate haha

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 Just as a matter of

Tue, 2014-02-25 20:34

 Just as a matter of interest, what is an acceptable / ideal amount of time to leave a cray pot in the water?  I always thought daily.  I struggle to get out monthly! Would love to set a couple of pots but dont think I couldn't check them often enough.

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