GI 1-2-09
Fished just behind GI & 5 fath on saturday with a mate, about 25-30m. Was a slow start to the day picking up the usual wrase and skippy when the call was made to try a couple more spots to get stuck into some real fish! However on the way to the other spots we discovered a new lump which looked nicely populated with big red blobs, we did several drifts the first picking up a double header dhuie, both which were just size. We decided to throw them back and see if we could get something better. The next drift my mate picked up a red snapper (swallow tail? looked a bit large of a swallowtail) anyway i picked up a nice black arse, next drift i got a nice dhuie 5-6kg, another drift i picked up another dhuie about 4kg, then the spot went dead. We spent the next few hours trying different ground but with no luck, so the call was to stay 10 more mins then head in, so 5 mins had past and i stoped fishing and cracked the first beer when my mate hooked into what i thought was a shark or stingray doing a typical run. After about 5 mins of overusing "stingray boy" my mate pulled up a nice dhuie 98cm and aprox 15kg. Ended up being a great day on the water.
Cheers,
Pete
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Excellent Pete
Got to be happy with that so close to shore.
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darn nice catch mate
did better than us all out in the 90s ha ha ha
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till
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nice work of GI
Nice work for shallow water off GI, I think my last trip was just wrasse!
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Red snapper so
Red snapper so shallow????
Nice dhu!
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nice fish how long have you
nice fish
how long have you had the northshore?
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Nice
Nice work Adonis. Always nice pulling good fish in shallowish water, you get the whole fight that way without the big lead slowing them down.
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Nice Dhus Pete...and not far
Nice Dhus Pete...and not far to travel.
Lawn needs a mow too!
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Haha cheers guys, yes mates
Haha cheers guys, yes mates house i told him the lawn needed a trim! Also was his boat too, a lot nicer then mine! Nice boat those northshores i think he's had it for about a year. Anyway yea we thought it was really odd catching the red in close thats why we thought it may be a swallow tail?
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Well done Pete
Well done Pete, some great fish for relatively shallow water!
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FFB? U for reel Adonis?
FFB? U for reel Adonis? Mate, iv'e been spending serious time out there and have never heard of a catch this good. Well done ! "Great Day" a massive understatement mate.
U using big baits and traditional bottom rigs I take it?
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Nice haul Pete
No wonder that Dhuie put up such a good fight, it's a beauty.
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Yeah Col, all my bait and
Yeah Col, all my bait and burley has given it a plenty of muscle....
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catch!
Well done Pete, you guys did well and that big DHU is awesome work for metro area. The red snapper is a good fish and you do get some bigger fish like that in close but rare due to pressure.........Congrats mate!
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