Huggy and Daz do Harvey Dam
After a gentle ribbing from Daz (DazSamFishing) in another post, I made the offer to take him down to Harvey to see how we would go with the trout and marron and to show him that I can (and do) actually catch fish despite not posting pics.
We picked Sunday hoping it would be a bit quieter, but hadn't planned on the blisteringly hot weather. The trout were definitley not interested, but luckily the redfin hurled themselves at our lures one after the other after the other!
Didn't really catch anything worth bragging about in the redfin category, some we caught were barely bigger than the little scorpion 38's we were trolling!! In the end we caught about 15 redfin and dropped maybe another 5 - 10? The best hit we had all day was nearing the end of the day when it had cooled off a little - Daz's outfit got hit and this fish took drag from his Stradic 5000 with a fairly taught drag setting - hallelujah I thought, we are finally going to bring a trout to the boat. But then the line went limp and the dream was over. In the end, we never boated a trout, but I bet that dropped fish is still haunting Daz (I know it's still annoying me!).
With the sun setting, we then layed our chook pellets out and had a few beers waiting for the baits to do their job. We then started our rounds, checking the baits. First run, we got to the first bait and just as we shone the torch down, ping off it shot. Not a big one, but its shocked Daz at how quickly it took off. He was expecting it to be a bit easier and the marron to be somewhat more lethargic in their escape efforts! 
We checked a few more baits only to have yet another small ones shoot off as we were walking up to the bait. Encouraging I thought, at least they are about. We then did our second run and I had a very small mnarron sitting on one of our close baits, got the noose in position, edged him back beautifully, but due to its tiny size I wasn't quick enough to get the noose shut on it. Disappointed but happy that at least the marron were around - or so it seemed. That was it, last marron we saw for another 2 hours of checking baits. Bit of a let down with the early indications of them being around, so we jumped in the boat and motored around to the ramp and called it a night.
Highlights: crabs I caught the day before for lunch, Little Creatures Rogers we consumed while trolling, daz getting his first redfin.
Lowlights: lack of trout and marron, pinjarra bakery was shut so we couldn't get any carrot cake.
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Decella
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Huge
They are huge.
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Nice pics Huggy
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Probably more fish than most
Probably more fish than most caught over the weekend! :) Sounds like a good time.
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I managed to get 17 reddies
I managed to get 17 reddies at wellington dam over the weekend. But none the size of the second fish. Mine were all in beetween those two. Seen some monsters follow in though.
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looks like you are
looks like you are struggling as much as i am Huggy, even i could manage better perch than that!! Mind you the littler creatures beer in the sun sounds good.!!! great report mate.
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at 42C
that beer was a necessary liquid relief, we would have dehydrated otherwise....
that aside, it was a very relaxing day.
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good Fish and always good
good Fish and always good to get a first.. i pretty much died in the heat indoors so you guys did pretty well.
I see they give shimano shirts to just about anyone now ;)
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nice
Wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it. :) Jks.
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It's true - Huggyb knows how
It's true - Huggyb knows how to fish!
Good report Huggy - it was certainly one of the most relaxing fishing days I've had in a long time.
A simple day out slow trolling lures & drinking beer in sweltering heat... can't beat it.
Craig Pearse
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OMG Huggy is in a pic Well
OMG
Huggy is in a pic
Well done m8y as for the heat gee thats just a normal day up hereLOL
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Good report
Nice work picking up a few reddies in the crazy heat. bet that dropped fish is still haunting you tho haha. shame the marron werent playing nice tho..i picked up some monsters there near the start of the season.
Will look out for ya at the dam now, im only landbased tho. its been fairly productive for reddies the last 2weeks.
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Droped fish...
the fish you droped may well have been a big redfin there are some whoppers up at harvey they're just few and far beetween. Ive seen picture evidence of a 5 kilo one from up there!
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sounds like us, went to the
sounds like us, went to the dam friday night, got a few small reddies but Couldnt manage any marron.... only saw one which may have been size, others were tiny. we were landbased tho. Next trip will be armed with kayaks
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good to see you actually do
good to see you actually do post pics without the mask too.but did you have to make the pics so damn big , or was that to make the fish look bigger
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Would have been nice just cruising around
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really
do you have a small monitor? They aren't big on mine??
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im only using a laptop and i
im only using a laptop and i can only get half the pic on the screen at a time. does that mean the screen is small?
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in a word
yes. what is it, 15" or something like that?
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wouldnt have a clue but yeah
wouldnt have a clue but yeah its amall, i told you i dont know anything about these things!!!!!!!!
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just for you Faulkners........
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thank you kind sir.now io
thank you kind sir
.now io can see that the fish was only small
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DazSamFishing
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LOL Huggy - you've made the
LOL Huggy - you've made the fish look small
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We were there Sunday as well
We were there Sunday as well and fished down the back of the dam in the trees for a while and then a few hours on the Dam wall and not a thing :(.
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when i fished harvey dam
all i could catch was redfin as well
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was that second redfin the
was that second redfin the biggest you got or did you get bigger because thats not a bad size for redfin up ut harvey... Ive seen bigger there but the average is somewhere in beetween the first fish and the second one.
HuggyB
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nah
we caught some bigger than that, and a lot of fosh smaller than that. I think that was pretty much the first couple of fish we caught and then it got boring!!
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Eat them?
You probably did so well on the reddies because you were using lures similar to baby trout... Top one is a brown trout and bottom is similar to a rainbow trout and harvey is stocked with trout so that's probably why you got so many redfin.
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That first pic is interesting
what were you hiding behind your back?
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Haha i noticed that... I
Haha i noticed that... I also noticed that in the second pic at the top it looks like there is two fish... it looks like two fins at the bottom of the redfin.
Andy he is probably holding another beer behind his back to keep the number of bottles in the pic limited
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not hiding anything. Huggy
not hiding anything. Huggy was simply trying to avoid running aground... hey Huggy.
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thats it Daz
steering the leccie motor I was!
Just cos you hook up, you dont stop trolling (unless its a good trout)
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sarcasm0
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Is an electric motor
a necessity at harvey dam huggy? I was thinking of having a crack in the bathtub, but I dont have an electic motor.
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Haha we use our leccy up
Haha we use our leccy up there. You can cover more ground that way and once you locate a school you just head over that area a couple of times and wait for the strike.
There has been a change of law now and you are not meant to have leccy motors on wellinton dam.... Not sure about harvey but i dont think the harvey dam was included. Well at least i hope not because these two places are our main reasons for having the electric motor.
And now that you mention it i can see the trail left by the motor behind you so theres evidence that your driving haha.
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Harvey Dam is electric
Harvey Dam is electric outboard or paddles only. No fuel powered motor allowed.
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have done the paddling thing
but prefer the motor - consistent troll speed (not pulsing along), quieter, easier.
When it was 1am and I had to paddle back to the ramp and it took my about an hour, I decided then and there that was the last trip paddling with oars in a tinny!
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sarcasm0
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Fair enough
Theres another item to add to the list:D The bathtub paddles like shit with its blunt nose so I wouldnt even bother until I got it sorted.
When they say no petrol motor, does that mean completely off the boat? eg could I have a bow mounted or aux mounted electric motor, and have the petrol engine up out of the water?
Sounds pretty awkward to me, Might have to just borrow the olds dinghy if/when I get an electric.
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you can have the motor attached
but if you can remove the fuel tank, do so. If you cant, then disconnect the fuel line.
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Just gotta do something
Just gotta do something extra to show that your not using the outboard.
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Outboards
Speaking of electric engines only i was actually at the dam lastnite hoping to have a last chance marron but only to catch 2 guys motoring around in a petrol outboard dingy!! Flew past right on nightfall creating decent waves and stirring up the mud ruining everyones nite marroning along the particular bank there.
So being in a 4x4 i followed close to shore and lit them up light daylight with the spotties to let them know, consequently they werent seen after that. Bloody moron's like that ruining it for everyone else!
End of rant haha.
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They probably thought you
They probably thought you were the ranger or something haha well done. If you go out the back of wellington dam on the collie side there are plenty of boats with outboard on.
We went camping there one weekend and for the whole weekend people were waterskiing on the dam!!! Knee boards, biscuits, you name i,t they had it. I assume it is people like that that are also to blame for the marron traps that youu find tied to tree stumps in the middle of the dam...
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Yeh but with Wellington Dam,
Yeh but with Wellington Dam, you can and there's designated areas for boating and water skiing. Likewise for Waroona.
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are you sure?
are you sure that there are spots you are allowed outboard motors on wellington dam honsu???
where did you find that out?