Hooked On "Re Lisa"
Well my last fishing day in Perth before the Fishwrecked Fishing Comp finally arrived. Paul G rings " Mate were on for Monday ( 5th March ), the weather looks fantastic and we will head out to some of my treasured spots." Nice and early 5.30am start. Yep, Sure, No problems Skip was the reply. I raced around like a headless chook, jigs, plastics, special bait rig, rods, reels yep all good. Alarm goes off at 4.00am and I awoke to one of those classic Autumn mornings, not a breath of wind, " You Bloody Beauty " we are going to have a Cracker I thought. Packed the last bits and headed off to meet Paul, Jesse and Kev, right on the money at 5.30am and we set off for the marina at Two Rocks. Now I know it's a public holiday, but I didn't anticipate the que at the ramp, Paul gave that wry smile, " Mate this is quiet compared to some days". We soon launched "Re Lisa and we were on our way.
" Re Lisa " is a classic Haines Hunter Boat and Paul has her very finely tuned, jumping and cutting though the water at a very comfortable 30 knots, the morning OOZED Exmouth, flat calm sea. not a breath of wind.
10 minutes into the journey and Jesse like a hawk yells out " Tuna, Birds " get ready, I didn't even have time to pick up my rod and he was already hooked up. Yelling and laughing come on slow coach. Out went the Adagio jig right in the middle of the school who were porpoising around the boat smashing anything that moved. Half and hour of laughing and yahooing, Rods, Jigs, Twisties flying everywhere. Okay let go tag some Dhuies you guys the skipper boomed. Well I felt like I needed to be blind folded and turned a few times around as we were heading into secret Paul G business " oops country.
We arrived at the first spot and we had two dhuies on board. Paul quickly measuring, tagging, recording and releasing the two in strong condition. We moved to the next and had two more on board, Paul and Jesse went through the same process, It was fantastic to see how all this comes together and help sustain our fish population. We moved again, once again double dhuies, I caught my first and she had a Tag in her. Paul wiped the seaweed off the tag, noted the number, re measure, recorded and released her. " That is one I caught a couple of years ago" Paul said. 'That was one of my tag numbers .' Made me feel proud that we had come a long way from the days that we kept everything.
Our first keeper was a very solid 14kg Dhuie that had me going for a tighter drag, next drop was our second keeper a dhuie of around 11kg, I could not wipe the smile off my face.
Paul landed a Dhuie of around 11kg but we released it for another day, he and Kev were the Baldie masters of the day catching six and keeping two.
On the way back we came across a school of little mack tuna, they were that thick that I ended up catching one by the tail, as I went to release it, it kicked, and put one of those very sharp hooks through my finger.
Yeoooow !!!! Yep "Iam HOOKED on RE LISA"
Great Day, Great Company, Great Fishing
Bring on Exy where the Gun " Jody " re joins the team
Overall
12 Dhuies
6 Baldies
1 Bronzie,
5 or 6 Tuna
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Faulkner Family
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gotta love days like that.
gotta love days like that. coupla nice dhuies there. pity about the hook in the finger. you know if you were using singles it wouldnt have happened
. at least you didnt have to push it much further to crush the barb.still wouldnt have put a dampner on the day. sounds like a whole lotta fun
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Simo_
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Smashed it
Smashed it
Bring on April
Andy Mac
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Top top day
well done guys
Cheers
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alfred
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Nice job Skipper!
Nice job Skipper!
Batty
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Always makes us jealous !!
What would be a catch of a lifetime is just a normal day out for 'relisa'
One day, one day !!!!!!!
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Reefmonkey
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sweet
Cracker fish and cracker write up!! makin it all look too easy!!
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Sounds like your still living
Sounds like your still living the moment George nice write up.Was a great day and a lot of fun , Bring on exy then the real adventure starts.
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Goodz
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You know how to tell a story
You know how to tell a story George! Great day out with several good (and not so good) memories! Great feed brought home too.
Any more details on the tagged Dhu? Was it one of yours Paul?
abeldog
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Updated
the report Goodz. It was one of Pauls Tags.
Roughly caught in the same area as last time.
In great condition.
Are you comming up to Exmouth this yeat??
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Goodz
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Any details on growth since
Any details on growth since last caught? Always interested to hear growth rates. Been sooooo many small dhuies out there lately I've been wondering how long it will take till they're decant size.
No exmouth this year mate as the new addition (little boy) is making for a hectic family life. The extent of my trip away is Jurien this weekend to fish with Whitey! Good luck up in Exxy trying to beat last years Mack!
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Good report Sounds like a
Good report Sounds like a cracker day out Yep those hooks in fingers never feel good had a few meself over the years A good haul takes the pain away (and a couple beers)
Old fishermen never die they just smell that way.
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Funny, That's
what the nurse said Wes, when she was pulling it threw.
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Oi
you look far to comfortable there George
TWiZTED
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Hey Jody
If you look at the photo with Jesse you will see there is still a spot on the other side of me.
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niccce
SO much for the tidal charts wich said a very average day out there :)
How did u get so close to the tuna school I found one but everytime we tried to get near it they spooked even though in a feeding frenzi
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No slow approach zip in at
No slow approach zip in at 20knots and get right on them the will make a run for it but you just put your lure infrount of them ,seems to work . Casting twists at them not trolling.
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Great work guys, its always
Great work guys, its always good to see released fish caught a few years later in healthy condition... Awesome
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That's mint!Great work
That's mint!
Great work
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That's a good haul!
That's a good haul!
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Hey mate, How big is the
Hey mate,
How big is the Adagio ? Is that the 12g one ?
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Hi Ulua, I used
the 105 but hooks need to be upgraded, had a couple straighten whilst on tuna and not on my finger lol.
Bought 4 x 125 size for Exy.
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I guess getting a hook in the
I guess getting a hook in the finger was a good excuse for a lunch time finish .I think we should off kept fishing till after dark .
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Top stuff boys!!!!! What do
Top stuff boys!!!!!
What do you do with the stripey tuna? We have got a few recently, released them, but one died after a ong fight so we kept it.....for shark bait.....
Sashimi??? Cooked? Any good?
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abeldog
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Yeah Spot on John
mangaged to realise the other four, thought Mum and Dad could cook the stripey tuna. Dad was a chief and knows how to cook almost anything.
I would have used them for bait if we couln't release them
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