Gero Diving Reports

 Gday crew

Thought id throw abit of a report together while i got the chance so here goes....

Last block off saw SamC & friend head north to do some spearing with me and a mate dale. Forecast looked unreal so the decision to head north the Port Gregory was made boat was packed and off we went early tuesday morning of last week... Arrived launched the boat and headed for ArchDecon Ledge.... 

Met with disgusting green water and a awesome 3m of viz! Cut costs and anchored up - jumped in and it was horrible. After trying in vain to find a fish worth shooting - well bump into a fish worth shooting. Ended up gettin buzzed by a agitated 8-9ft bronzie. This shark wasnt much fun and in the dirty water and with it darting about very very quickly we decided best to leave. We cut our losses and heading in behind the reef to find a touch better viz. Dale had managed to shoot his first dhu at 64cms - being a NSW diver he was pretty stoked and to find it hiding inside a cave in mud was a good effort in 15m.

The reef was slightly better but nothing special... Monster tailor where spotted along with parrotys and small groper... Sam even managed a thumper Tarwhine.

We then proceded to get stung from heel to toe literally by the most unreal bluebottle swarm ever! Words cannot describe how bad it was but it prevented dale from swimming to the boat - he waited on the reef for us to come around and pick him up. It was insane. A literal CARPET of the pricks....

Tried for some crays quickly - managed a few from the millions of kakkers and saw a 10ft tiger in 3ft of water before cuttin cost and headin in spirits shot to bits! The decision was made going by the current conditions that we would return to gero and try from there!

Next day seen the damn sthrly in early but we pushed on and found some okish water - hazy 10m viz and the odd fish... SamC managed a pair of nice baldies early - His mate Kasey got a nice trout and a groper - Dale managed the same and i managed to pick up a thumper 6.5kg baldie and small dhu to end the day! At least the boys shot some nice fish in the end. Highlight for me tho was being surrounded by a school of small sharks on a mission at one stage in 15m. It was phenominal 50plus sharks from 2ft - 6ft long. Had to check and triple check they wernt cobia!

 

Since the boys left ive managed a few local dives aswell 

The crays are slowly picking up and a few fish in shallow also.... Managed a great late arvi session with Spooled last week with 12crays 2 small dhuies 1 nice trout and a Yellowspotted Boarfish! A first for myself and the fillets look unreal!

Also had a well known fishwrecked identity (photo posted in latest images) who asked to remain annymous call thru town and manage to crack open his dhuie account on the straight hook!

Dove yesterday aswell and struggled in a howling northerly current! Ended up picking up 2 trout 1 big baldie 1 bluebar parrot and i scored again picking up a 10kg cobia! Not very common in town but seen from time to time... The fish did cost me a $100 sharft for my riffe euro but happy regardless!

Enjoy the couple of pics! Till next time

Cheers Poddy

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Didnt know that you went

Wed, 2011-02-16 11:01

Didnt know that you went diving with Shane Watson???

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Blue Bottles

Wed, 2011-02-16 11:04

Hey poddy some good fish there. I mentioned the sharks at Port Gregory forgot to mention the blue bottles. There were a few around when i was there from January 15th but they must have got worse. I gather conditions were quite windy at Port Gregory? The Blue Bottles were the same last year!!!!!

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weather

Wed, 2011-02-16 11:13

nah mate weather couldnt have been better.... light easterly winds that swung around to be a moderate 12-15knots from the west... zilch swell.... 

ground swell we copped for a week straight murked the water up me thinks

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Thats a massive baldy! He

Wed, 2011-02-16 11:17

Thats a massive baldy! He will cook up damn nice

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Baldie

Wed, 2011-02-16 11:44

Good write up. Cracka baldie. You can keep the tiger sharks where you are though.

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nice fish mate, spewin about

Wed, 2011-02-16 11:47

nice fish mate, spewin about the vis but at least your freezer will be looking healthy. your making my trigger finger itchy as i just picked up a new RA and the weather has been too crap to use it. hey I think i saw a couple of photos of you in the latest spearfishing downunder? very nice.

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great fish and report there

Wed, 2011-02-16 11:57

great fish and report there mate!

bet your hanging to try the new  RA carbon 1.4 that my brother brought back for you

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Fantastic fish guys!  Thanks

Wed, 2011-02-16 12:01

Fantastic fish guys!  Thanks for sharing.

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nice work pod man chu, very

Wed, 2011-02-16 12:43

nice work pod man chu, very nice indeed!

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A great selection

Wed, 2011-02-16 12:56

A great selection there.....nice Cobe.  Top stuff.

Cheers Pete

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Great cobia and another horse

Wed, 2011-02-16 15:19

Great cobia and another horse baldy!

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great fish there guys.   jeez

Wed, 2011-02-16 16:37

great fish there guys.   jeez poddy , you must be getting sick of baldie by now eh???

thumper!

how do you rate cobia for taste??? i've never tried them

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Top outting there brother,

Wed, 2011-02-16 19:58

Top outting there brother, will happen again soon enough

 

Nice cobe aswell, would have got the heart racing seeing that underwater

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 nice one Poddy, sure keeping

Wed, 2011-02-16 21:45

 nice one Poddy, sure keeping the spearing page afloat at the moment mate. 

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spearing

Wed, 2011-02-16 22:24

 yeh doing pretty well.... gotta make hay while the weather is good! 

did a quick arvo trip for a mackie today - no mackies but a couple more monster baldies... the water was sooooo clear! could see the bottom in 17-18m no worries at all... 

in respect to the new gun pete - it works very very well!!! i got the 1.4 carbon intending to use it for mackies only but ive had to shoot baldies yesterday and today with it as the cobe bent my shaft yesterday... just replaced the shaft and shooting line 3mins ago!

 

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sounds like a few interesting

Wed, 2011-02-16 22:54

sounds like a few interesting trips out. good to see you got the visitors onto a few fish in the end. would have ben a nice buz with so many sharks aroound. makes you wonder why. well done on the cobe and monster bauldies

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