Great Long Weekend
Spent the long weekend with the family down at Point Peron in some holiday shacks - only 500m to the ramp, which is very nice. Saturday, we spent a few hours in the sound - cleaned up on the squid and had Till's GT stuffed squid for dinner - highly recommended too!
Sunday morning was the traditional BBQ breakfast at about 9am. This is a late breaky for me, so this still left some time to have a quick fish. Dragged my teenage nieces out of slumberland at 5.50am. On the water in ten minutes and a quick (well diesel blurt) out to the back of FFB. With no points, I sounded a little bit of ground in 20 metres and didn't promise the girls anything too much. At least we had beat the sun, so a Pinkie could be on the cards. I set up two of my spin outfits with drift baits of two squid heads each(from Saturdays catch). First drop - Pinkie time....too easy. Nice fight and biggest fish ever for Niece1 quick pic and release.
Next drop, big heavy weight with slow pumping - 'cuttlefish' was the call from me to Niece2 now don't freakout when you see it! The cuttle surfaced about 5m away from the boat. He was a great size and the accuracy of his water jet produced a few screams from my crew! Took a while for me to convince Niece2 to pose with a live Cuttlefish, but if she wanted to keep it, well, she had to;
Down side was that as I was about to leader the cuttle in, Niece 2 high sticked behind me - Oh, I know that sound...doh. Reset drift again, dropped down and whack - hang on tight to that outfit, I yelled to Niece2. Pump and wing, big screams again when a beautiful sheen of silver caught the rising sun beams.
I'm shaking my head, thinking, it doesn't get any better then this.....lets head in. >We got back to the shack and breakfast was ready at 9am...what a start to the day! My young one practice casting on the front beach.
That arvo we launch around in Safety Bay and head to Penguin Island - a first for all of us. What a pleasant surprise this place was.
till
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Hey that meal is getting
Hey that meal is getting around, one of the other forum members messaged me about it as well.
Thats one ugly cuttly, condolences about the rod though!
Adam Gallash
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Some ugly code you managed to get into that Pete! Nice report though.
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soupster51
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Top Stuff Pete
Another great long weekend for the Dowse family. Great to see the girls get a couple of fish. Are they the same girls that came on to GI with you the first time? What is that strange article of clothing they are wearing on their headS?????????
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PilbaraBrad
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nice report mate, some great
nice report mate, some great shots there
southcity104
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Great life style!
Im looking fwd to all that in the future. Well done Pete, awesome to see a wide spectrum of anglers here on the site.
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Nickjg
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Sounds like a great weekend
Sounds like a great weekend there (:
How far were u out when you caught that snapper, and how deep was the water? Cheers
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beau
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... it says 20m of water and
... it says 20m of water and at 5 fathom bank
fat belly dog
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Nice
Great photos Pete,
Looks like a great place to take the kids, sometimes its easy to forget what is on our door step and head away over the horizon
Is the trophey center cab your boat? and its a diesel? how do you find it in general and on fuel?
Cheers
Pete D
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eeer, thanks Beau.Yeah Soupy,
eeer, thanks Beau.
Yeah Soupy, they are the ones. They were getting bagged by the young lads at school about only catching squid and herring. Now they are armed and dangerous
Full Walkaround it is fbd. Enough room down under to sleep 2 x 6 footers and our 7 year old. Diesel and awesome on fuel....just no speed demon, but will cruise on 24 knots from here to busso for a coffee, Margaret River for some red and back on one tank!
Cheers Pete
dkonig82
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I'm intrigued by the
I'm intrigued by the GT stuffed squid....
Great pics though, aside from the cuttlefish - that thing looks bloody horrible!
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Paul Dickinson
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what did the snapper and dhu
what did the snapper and dhu measure
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fat belly dog
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what length is the trophy
Thanks Pete,
What length is your trophy, I am in the research phase for a boat purchase, Have a young family three kids 6-10 that luv the water and fishing so am after something suitable for fishing diving and family use but small enough to launch by myself (if I want a night fish mid week), but big enough for family trips to rotto etc.
Was thinking about a fibre-lite 6m runabout or centre cab. Had a mate with re-powered baron sportsman that was a good boat for metro. Then started to see the trophys, KW's, assuie built seafarer's... heaps of choices. Tow weight needs to be under 2.5 tonne or I will need to upgrade the prado
Cheers
Pete D
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GT squid - Ads put the pic
GT squid - Ads put the pic up and not the link.
Another big win from GT there. Was a thread from Till.
Pinkie - 44, Dhu - 66.
fbd - 6.5m+marlin board that I custom built. Hmm, time to upgrade the Prado then!
Cheers Pete