Gero Dive 6th July
Hi crew,
Quick post from a arvo session today. Swells been down for last few days so been hanging to get wet. usual dive buddy rob has gone on holidays to thailand so a few problems to contend but it all worked out. Knocked off this morning 0700 after my last 12hr shift straight home to bed - up at 1130 and the weather looked choice. what to do... ring SPOOLED! haha the man got outta lunch with the ladies and joined me for a session. quick gather of gear and into it. Spooled bought some gear incase water was a tad cold which it was - 17.3 degree (no worries for the riffe suit tho) and the water was sooooooo clear..
first stop seen spooled into a nice little sambo on plastic. promised so much but not alot delivered tho - one hail mary at a decent parroty and totally fu*ked a shot on a good baldie. Mean time Spooled was defending his ground against a large seal that decided his Coldies looked tempting - bored of that it tried to join a paddle boarder catching a few waves! according to the big fella the poor guy was literally attempting to swat the seal away from joining him on his board! hahaha
moved out deeper and found a miiiiiiiiint looking piece of ground - dropped from 6m down to 14m and couldnt believe i didnt see anything. had a good look around for 45mins joined by 2 thumper sambos in the 20kg plus class which was nice but alas no dhus baldies or trout to be seen..
Time was wearing on and another couple of quick stops proved fruitless til we decided to try once more in the first spot of the day before calling it quits in the hope of another shot at the baldie or possible dhu.
Vis had taken a turn for the worst and a very good parroty lived to tell the tale after i couldnt take the safety off on one dive. Parrotys have been a nemisis of mine for awhile and it was beginning to take that familiar show. Saw another good parrot and swarms of large buffies but the vis was crap and decided to head home.
Then i saw the head of a realllly good parrot crusing in oblivious to me 9m above.... quick breath up , slow quiet drop and game set match...
measured 80cms and spooled and i both call it for 9kgs... a very solid fish and the nemisis no more!
Fear The Spear............!
Faulkner Family
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nice size parot there .
nice size parot there . looks like he needed a trip to the dentist. gotta be stoked to get that one tho
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
poddyfish
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dentist
hell yeah russ... had some growth on his teeth thats for sure. it was the first thing i noticed coming outta the gloom.
usually they are extremely flighty locally to get a shot on so i counted myself lucky to land this one!
Fear The Spear............!
Lamby
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Great pics, 2nd one is
Great pics, 2nd one is amazing
soupster51
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Good Fish
Top fish mate. Nice reward for the time in the water. A couple of quality pics as well. 17 degree water is a bit bloody cool though.......
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Goodz
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Nice pics and write up mate.
Nice pics and write up mate. That's one thumping parrot!
Makes me feel better about not goin to the dentist for a while... Or does it :/
till
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Looks like another good dive
Looks like another good dive Poddyfish!
Laugh about the seal trying to board the paddleboard.
poddyfish
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11.6kg
just weight the parroty outta interest before knocking the sides off... went 11.6kgs!!! unreal fish
Fear The Spear............!
TWITCHEMUP
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Monster Parrot
Great fish mate!!!
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Reefmonkey
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Great fish
Excellent fish poddy, love the pic of the jelly too, awesome shot
Dave J.
Indiana
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Some fantastic Fish !
Poddy , you have certainly gettting in amongst some great fish in the last few months.
Well done ,keep up the great pic's
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