first fish on my new PE1.5 outfit
Went out from mandurah yesterday in very ordinary conditions with my best maye Paul, AKA Decrais. Decided to give a smaller jig a crack on my new outfit as the fish seemed a little shut down. I remember thinking to myself just as my jig hit the bottom this will be interesting if I hook something decent. Sure enough seconds later bang I was hooked up. After about 5 minutes of feeling like I had barely budged whatever I had hooked it decided to make a move taking a heep od line. As the line angle increased I started to get concerned I was gunna get rubbed of as the ground was a little knarly. We decided to start the boat and pursue the fish trying to improve the angle. I got real lucky as there was a point when it felt like it had me in the reef. I backed of the tension for about 5 seconds and fortunately he came out. I started to put as much hurt on the fish as I thought my outfit could handle but the whole time wondering if my line was damaged from the reef. Eventually I managed to get him turned and get him to the boat. Epic battle
OLD BANGA
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Epic Battle
Great catch, Dirt, pity about the smile must have just missed the smile in the camera shot, hope you had a safe and happy Christmass and have a "quite", safe and successfull New Year to you and your "family", well done Dad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers
Old Banga!
OLD BANGA
Dirt
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cheers uncle glen
Haha no smile sue was taking he sweet time taking the photo and I was struggling haha
ricey
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I'd post that 3 times as well if i did that
Amaziing capture, great fish, and awesome angling.
Well done!
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Dirt
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Haha Rickey
Yeah mate was a cracka day Ricey but not sure how I managed to post it 3 times. Trying to figure out how to remove them
Percula
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nice
very very nice!!
Dirt
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Duplicate posts
Hey guys can anyone tell me how to remove multible posts
I have got about 80 percent of the fight on my go pro, I will post when I get a chance.
Willlo
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Nice fish well done
Nice fish well done
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ar_elbers
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Nice one
Well done, that is a nice one for PE1.5.
I will look forward to seeing the fight.
Auslobster
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Always great to get a big one...
...and so much more enjoyable doing it the "hard" way! If you'd skulldragged that on 80 lb bottom bouncing gear, the story would not have been nearly as interesting...for you or anyone reading it!
opsrey
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Horse.
fantastic Dhuie. There will be plenty of interest in the video.
Brock O
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Top Fish
Dirt....good fun on that out fit!
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Ripper
Ripper
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What lb line?
What lb line?
Ben Derecki
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Nice
What's the combo mate? And what jig did the damage?
Dirt
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Combo
Certate 3000 on a Laith Rickman custom PE 1.5 rod
Jig was a haoli something or other haha in gold and orange glow 110gms
Probably my least favourite jig in my bag but my best mate paul known as ( Dcrais) dropped another huge fish earlier on a orange glow vexed jig. He is new to jigging but has had some big dhuies on the line but for one reason or another hasnt managed to stay connected. Stay tuned for his post of a 20kg dhuie real soon
De-Crais
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Great to watch.
It was great to watch you battle that fish on that outfit Dean!...I hadn't realised you changed outfits, remember asking how the new mytho was feeling and you looked at me and said you were on the new PE 1.5 outfit!....Great fish bud and another great day out on OnStrike...albeit in pretty average conditions but still very fishable.
Yeah hopefully one of those big buggers will stay connected sooner or later...dropping that first fish due to my fg knot slipping was pretty sad and getting reefed by that second even bigger Dhu was pretty amazing stuff..oh well it'll happen....Cheers bud.
Paul
Fisheagle
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Dream Fish
Great fish - still trying to get a Dhuie larger than 10kg.
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sea-kem
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You do it in style Dirt.
You do it in style Dirt. Great fish!
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Cracker
Jatz cracker Dirt!
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meglodon
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Exellent fish and report
What a way to end the year with a fish like that.
soupster51
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Awesome
Awesome fish. Top write up.
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Habanero
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Yep
Great capture , great write up , well done.
dkonig82
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Awesome capture on any gear
Awesome capture on any gear mate - even moreso on the light stuff. Great work!
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n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
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sexton
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Fantastic fish on that gear!
Fantastic fish on that gear!
mc
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Stonka!
Stonka!
crasny1
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Epic
Great fish and superb capture on the underpowered gear. When it stripped some line you must have thought sambo etc. Not often dhu's peel line.
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Dirt
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Sambo
Yeah cransy there was moments where I thought it might of been a sambo but even though it was taking drag it wasn't the characteristic fight of a sambo, more heavy weight slower thumps on the rod and very hard to move in the first five minutes