Long day on the water
Took my brother Rob out today for a day on the water hunting for Dhuies. Started off for a quick sunrise sesh on the Five fathom trying for a snapper and had the floating mulie go off first drift which resulted in a fiesty sambo.
No snapper to be found on the drift and with the breeze picking up a little we anchored and soon had a school of skippy under the boat thanks to some burley. Spent some time catching a few skippy on the light gear which was fun. Got this unusual little guy which I'm told is a Thicklip Trevally.
Soon as we'd caught enough skippy and no sign of the wind getting any worse we headed out. The aim for to look for new ground in an area I'd never been before with the prize being a well overdhue dhue! Search and search we did.... we found ground with fish... but none that wanted to play the game. Only a couple undersize snapper and nothing more in the esky by 2am hopes were dissapearing fast. As I was quickly retrieving my soft plastic it got smashed hard and my stradic screamed for mercy. The new Trevala rod got a great work out on a solid fish
The result after a good fight.
We then made the call to head towards home with one stop on the way back to look at one last spot. Found some good fish on the sound and I dropped an alright fish on the jig first drift so we did one more.... Just as I was winding in and calling it a day Rob finally hooks up solid. We were hoping for the long awaited dhuie but didn't complain when this solid snapper hit the surface. Rob's first size snapper and a good one at that. Went about 8kg and 90cm.
Long day on the water for not much return.. but was nice out there when the winds eased! Fun to get a couple sambos and see Rob land a great pinkie too!
danno
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Good stuff mate a nice day
Good stuff mate a nice day on the water for sure. Could have been worse you could have been working or at school. Nice work.
Xtreme Coolers
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Nice to see you out again Goodz
Fencing must be going well. Love the snapper and the conditions.
Dave
southcity104
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Great report goodz
Your bros Snap is a beauty!
"Its a life style job"
Goodz
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Work is slow at the moment
Work is slow at the moment so thought I'd take a nice weather day off and just go enjoy it. All day out and only used 25ltr of fuel!
John_M
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nice one ben
nice one ben
Bones76
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great pinkie
great pinkie
dkonig82
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Cant complain with a couple
Cant complain with a couple of good line burners and a good snapps for the table.
Good day by the looks of it
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n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
crasny1
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Just love a day out on the Briney
With only 25l fuel and a few fish you cant complain to much.
Big old man snapper.
Neels
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Aussie Boofhead
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Great Day out on the water
Great Day out on the water there
weather looks magic
Lucky Tim
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nice snapper to open your
nice snapper to open your mate's account and a decent day on the weather side of things as well.
JGS
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Nice
Great photo of the snapper
Anthony Hall 87
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Looks like a nice day on the
Looks like a nice day on the water judging by the last pic! Good stuff
Tight lines to all :)