First night fish

I've been going out for the last 3 weeks around either dawn or dusk trying to get myself a snapper without any luck yet have caught black ass and a decent flathead but no snapper and after having to come home at dusk a fortnight ago on a flat calm evening becanuse I didn't have any lights I decided to replace all the lights wiring and all so I can stay out in the dark. Knocked off work and got the boat and headed down to woodies shot out behind the islands and got anchored 11m around 5, I knew the full moon was not going to help with the snapper but I thought the light would be handy I had a awesome burley sock I'd made myself and got to cubing up mulies around 7:30 when I was starting to think how long should I hang around for and one of my Rods was getting a little movement so I picked it up and started winding slowly and could feel something so I just pulled it up real gentle thinking it was another flathead then it got to the surface I don't think it knew it was hooked until it saw the dinghy all I saw was a white flash as it took off back for the bottom, I got it back up again and it took off back down again fought it back up and it was done, except I netted it and it just tore a hole in my cheap bcf net so I grabbed a rag and just grabbed him by the mouth and pulled him in. Still no snapper but my boats first dhue for me not too bad either at 68cm. YEWWWWW

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little johnny's picture

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Nice fish

Fri, 2020-06-05 22:54

Fair few in close lately .

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Well done

Sat, 2020-06-06 00:30

And a good eating size

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 Excellent bycatch I'd  much

Sat, 2020-06-06 05:46

 Excellent bycatch I'd  much rather  a feed of dhu over snapper any day 

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 Happy dayz 

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 Well done mate, got to be

Sat, 2020-06-06 06:25

 Well done mate, got to be happy with upgrade from a Pinky.

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nice dhuie mate

Sat, 2020-06-06 07:03

 would of fought hard in 11 meters 

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 Nice reward for the effort

Sat, 2020-06-06 08:19

 Nice reward for the effort Guy.

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 Well done.  Looks nice and

Sat, 2020-06-06 14:05

 Well done.  Looks nice and solid too. Gotta be happy with it for sure

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Good..

Sat, 2020-06-06 18:42

Good effort for a good fish..

well done. Mate.  Cheers pirate . 

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 Good work mate, can't wait

Sun, 2020-06-07 06:29

 Good work mate, can't wait to be back west and hit a few dhu. Cheers

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Nice work

Sun, 2020-06-07 08:03

Nothing better than a dhuie on board 

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heaps of skips last night

Sun, 2020-06-07 09:43

old mate had a moon boot on so he fished from the boat seat with a hand scored a nice black arse and a nice dhu and 5 skips

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Awesome mate Congrats ,Caught

Sat, 2020-06-13 09:46

Awesome mate Congrats ,Caught plenty of Black Jews in Darwin but never had the chance to catch one of those .Well done