With the weather looking like playing the game last Friday, decided to give it a crack in the 40's out from Mandurah. Last full moon out there I got onto a few small to just legal pinkies but no Dhus. Well a month has changed it quite a bit. Within 20 minutes the bro in law and I had a double hook up on a pidgeon pair of Dhueys. Doug hooked his first and while I was getting the net organised and untangled. My Stradic that was off the front of the boat bobbing a Daiwa Pirate jig got nailed. The dhu's went 5.5 & 6 kg each. 

Now we just have to get a couple of snapper and we'll be done I told him. I went over to where I got the snapper last time but only managed to get a nice Harly and a couple of smaller Dhus that went back well. Also got a couple of nice Skippy which had us thinking we had the snapper we were looking for.

Doug then hooked a nice fish but took his time getting it to the surface as it was pretty clear it was another Dhu and wanting it to swim off strongly. Then he felt a strong tug on the line and up came this.

Doug has fished out from Mandurah for years and has never lost a fish let alone a Dhu to sharks, and it wasn't to be the only one for the day. I hooked a Sambo on the drop a while later at a different spot. That put up a spirited fight for a few minutes until it turned into a freight train and took off under the boat, I finally got the head back from another hungry shark. Hope the Metro area isn't going the same way as up north!

Anyway it was a great day out on the water and a few fillets in the freezer. We ended up keeping 2 Dhu, 1 Harly, 2 Skippy, 2 Sambo's (thai fish cakes yumm) & managed a small Southern Bluefin that went 5kg! Sorry not great or many photos, too busy having fun.

Cheers for reading

Chris

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