Good day on the 3

Went off midarie to the 3 mile... this time instead of going to staggies reef for kings we headed towards alkimos in the hope of a dhuie or two. Saw bird activity but bait went deep by the time we rocked up.

there was a gd mix of fish all day. skippys, wrasse, and small break seas everywhere. got onto a school of pinkies, which where on 48cm went back alive and well. I personally think 1/2meter size limit for snapper is rediculus.. this 480 that went back was solid with its own little lump on its head. I think if u cant take a fish that decent home whats the point.. but anyways kept fishing, dad got a decent break sea. boat drifted onto sand and I got a yellow tail king (they are everywhere atm). last drop of the day was drifting wrass fillets for dhuies with no weight, produced a very nice harlequin cod. All in all a gd day out, seems the last few trips there has been decent fish all in 12-15m of water 3 mile off ocean reef, mindarie, and two rocks

 Im intrestead to know what else is been caught on the 3 lately, feel free to add!!


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Yes there are plenty of

Tue, 2010-04-06 18:35

Yes there are plenty of small snapper around ,more the usual.as said harlies , dhuies ,blackass,skippy there is no shortage of small fish on the three mile ,we see a large assortment of fish on every dive.

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been calling mindarie my

Tue, 2010-04-06 18:47

been calling mindarie my local for the last month or so. Have caught lots of blackarse, harlies, skippy, pinkys etc. Also got a mackie a couple of weeks ago. Been diving out there too and seen a few dhu's around.

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sounds like you had a fun

Wed, 2010-04-07 06:37

sounds like you had a fun day out there, good to see you got a couple of nice eating keepers to bring home

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Paul what depth are you

Wed, 2010-04-07 16:16

Paul what depth are you normally diving to? also are you on the back of the 3 or infront of it?

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nice fish ..we have been

Wed, 2010-04-07 20:19

hiting the 3 mile around about same depth in the last couple of weeks,heaps of small pinkies around (few big ones ) and shits loads of small bronzies probably caught 40 between two of us in the last 3 times we have been out (all released) few skipps,those ytk great to catch ah been trying to get one of those for ages may have to launch from mindarie next timeWink..

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Good to see

Thu, 2010-04-08 06:21

Good to see some quality fish from shallow water. A top feed for sure.

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