Had a nice quickie off Two rocks sunday arvo

 Headed out of Two rocks marina at 12:30pm sunday and went straight to the 40m line. Sounded around and saw some fish on the sounder so dropped baits. The sinker hit the bottom and just before i pulled the bail arm over i saw the slack tighten up on its own, I knew that was a good sign  and straight away i was on - turned out to be the 51cm baldie at the bottom of the photo there, he must have seen the bait dropping down to him and just smashed it. Dropped fresh bait straight back down, a few small nibbles then bang that 70cm dhuie pictured. Could still see some fish on the sonar so dropped again and bang a 56 cm dhuie, all this action in the first 10minutes of the very first drift I was wrapped. The mate i was fishing with hadnt got anything at that point and has never caught a dhuie before so he really wanted to get his first one on his new rod..The 56cm dhuie looked tiny against the 70cm model so i decided to release weight it back down cause we seemed to be on the fish and I was hoping he would get his first size dhuie. The bite kinda went off so we went back over the same spot, i let him fish this drift without me and within 5 mins he was on with something that looked friiggin BIG!  At first we called it for a big dhuie cause it was slow, strong and heavy but after a while it started throwing long fast runs into the fight so we thought maybe a nice sambo. Eventually up came the gummy shark pictured, i only took a shot of it cause it was the biggest one taken on my boat so far, all the other ones weve caught in the past have been alot smaller. He fought it to the boat and to me it looked like it had no fight left, it just floating there boatside so i lifted it into the boat. When it hit the deck it got its second wind bigtime, my boats mainly cabin with a smallish deck that fishes two just comfortably so there ended up being rods, tackleboxes and eskies flying around - it went friggin nuts.  I couldnt hold it in one spot so i straddled it with both hands at the back of its neck trying to pin it to the floor - that turned out to be my next mistake. The bloody thing stopped flapping side to side violently and started spinning round and round and round, I was wearing shorts and ended up sandpapered roar on the inside of my thighs, didnt feel it at the time but hurt later, took the photo and tossed the thing back- We kept fishing for about 15 mins and just hooked a few wrasse so decided to move on. Moved a little deeper into 45m and i got the 64cm pinky - i was on fire it was like i couldnt help catching fish. We drifted around a bit more, I got two more gummies but they were only 2/3RDS the size of the first big one and we called it a day. Great couple of hours off two rocks and looking forward to doing it again next weekend, thanks for reading!               Click for OptionsClick for Options


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cant post pics in usual way so had to copy and paste into post

Mon, 2015-04-20 23:33

 sorry they only small and cant be enlarged cheers dave

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Tell everyone why dont ya!

Tue, 2015-04-21 07:03

thats all well and good , but how did the fishing go?

 

Sorry couldnt help it , you sound like you really were killing it mate , any reason for not keeping the gummy , very good chewing I believe,

yep some days just seem to come together, and keep you going when times are leen.

A top day , good luck next week , dont forget to try a troll out that way , if conditions are good, crew have still picked up

macks and tuna out that way this time of year.

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Thanks mate - yes was gonna run a deep diver in on the way

Tue, 2015-04-21 10:04

home cause i was feeling lucky after all that but there was heaps of weed around and decided it was prob gonna be too  much of a pain in the arse clearing the lures. I also intended to hang an unweighted scalie off the back while drifting cos i saw on here a guy got a ripper floating a mulie off the back last week think it was  but we had three birds arrive as soon as we stopped to fish and they never left us alone. Regarding the gummies, yeh ive heard they are good eating and i know alot of guys on here specifically target them. We always seem to catch at least one or two per trip and ive thought about keeping them on those lean days when I cant catch a demersal but its just the stink of them turns me right off eating them. Also when I bring them into the boat with the Mrs on board she freaks out like its a white pointer gonna bite her so I gotta get them straight back in after unhooking! 

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 Them poxy mutton  birds!! we

Tue, 2015-04-21 19:10

 Them poxy mutton  birds!! we had half a dozen hanging around the other day.. We probably caught em about 3 to 4 times they'd try take your baits on the drop fight each other get tangled in ya gear  then attack you when your trying to untangle them