good day out
hey all
headed out yesterday, first time in ages that we have finally had some goof weather. headed straight to the derwent had a jig resulting in one pinky, decided to head out deep to one of my deep spots and see if there was much around, with a little look around some fish started to show, so out went the sea anchor and down went the lines, whilst the lines where plumeting to the bottom we had 4 dollies come out of nowhere and started circling the boat, within a second we both had a double hook up on dollies, at the same time having to rods out in 300mts of water, trying to not get tangled whilst fighting dollies is hard work believe me, after landing them we decided to do another proper drift over my spot, next drift came and this time we where greeted by a big pod of dolphins free swiming around the boat, after dazing off to the amazing creatures before i new it i was hooked up big time, big head shakes and very hard to turn off the bottom it kept me wondering what the hell i had hooked, 15 mins later popped up a beauty 32kg harpuka, after that i headed into a few shallower spots, hooked into a 20kg grey band and jigged another that would have gone maybe 8kgs. all in all it was a great day out with some much needed weather.
cheers
luke
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NICE
WELL DONE MATE - GOOD EATING FILLETS FOR A WHILE
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Top effort
Well done Luke..
Some great fish that's for sure !
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Nice Work Mate.......
Nice Work Mate.......
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Wow, nice day out.
Wow, nice day out. Surprising seeing dollies the frosty time of year!
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nice mate... great fish
nice mate... great fish there...
smaller fish on the Smith?
Sunday looking good for me to get my boat out for the first time in a long time...
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Thats not a good day out,
Thats not a good day out, thats a great day out. Good to see one landed on the jig and some out of season dollies.
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awesome stuff fellas
awesome stuff fellas
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well done , a coupla great
well done , a coupla great tasting fish and some dolphins swimming around, sounds like an awsome day
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going off
Going off, well done fellas! Top report Luke.
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Nice
Nice fish Luke. Looks like you had a good day out.
Was it still lumpy out there?
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Hi Luke, Correct me if I'm
Hi Luke,
Correct me if I'm wrong but that's a Bass Groper you're holding up there.
And that's a mighty light jig for the second cod!
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well done fella's a
well done fella's
a fantastic day
i really need to look into heading out a bit further.
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Well done a real good day
Well done a real good day out ,great to sea the dollies still out there ,i have had the big yellowfin tuna buzz the boat out deap,but never hooked up ,probably for the best as they were around the 50kg mark .
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Awesome day out on the water
Awesome day out on the water for sure - nice bonus with the dollies.
Cheers Pete
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Top Day
Sounds like a great day out there
Dollies would have been a surprise, any idea of the water temp out deep Luke,just wondered if there if still some warm water well offshore..
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Got to be happy with that result
What a mixed bag that is.
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kasey, na its a puka mate,
kasey, na its a puka mate, we got a 30kg groper about 3 months ago and theres a bit of differance i noticed, i got the smaller grey band on a 180g jacknifer in 110mts
tim, the weather held up nicely till about 3.30 when we were on the way back
rick, water temp was 19.4 and that was out wide so i was surprised there was dollies around, might have to go trolling for some on sunday
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Awesome report!
Top fish there luke.Good someone is finally getting out and getting into it..Hanging out for Sunday then its my turn!!
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Fantastic Report!
What a great variety of deep water species you have captured in those pics. Thanks for sharing mate.
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Awesome fish Luke. Was the
Awesome fish Luke. Was the Bass on the Zest jig?? Wats the rod you got your stella one??
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And yeh, the first pic is a
And yeh, the first pic is a Bass Grouper.....wicked boardies but LOL
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na honsu im sure its a puka,
are you sure honsu it sure does look like a puka, ill put another pic of it up the top that shows it better, its a smith kgs68mm, have u got any sanme jigs left mate, i might have to pop in and grab one
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Hi Luke, I'd like to see the
Hi Luke,
I'd like to see the other pic too.
I thought that was a Smith KGS! A very long and soft rod for jigging out in deep water!
Not often that you can drop 180g in 110m.
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Added
Luke has added it to the bottom of the thread Kasey.
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looks to be the same species
looks to be the same species to me, bloody nice whatever they are
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yer its a pretty light
yer its a pretty light combo, im only running pe 3 big one on it, only drop with it on really good days for ambers and sambos, iv nocked a few 8kg ambers over with it.
geezz im really not sure if its a bass or a puka now, iv looked over previous puka and they look very similar, the sea bass that we got before lookes definately different
who knows, lol it put up a great fight
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Its a bass grouper
Its a bass grouper mate...Far better eating than a hapuka..
Here's a pic of all 3 together Hapuka, Grey Band and a Bass Grouper so you can easily see the difference
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/6018/76397739bc2.jpg
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Bass Groper!
Been away fishing the last 2 plus weeks and just had a read Luke!
A good Bass Groper that one (should of released it ha ha LOL) Was it on jig?....the greyband's & dollie certainly mixed up the days catch!
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very nice fish there indeed.
very nice fish there indeed. That's a great pic of the dollie too!!! well done