With the weather looking the goods on Friday, rang around during the week to see who was available for a fish (Poor JohnF!!).

One of the guys from bluewater morley had the day off and had a mate who was keen for a run so made the plan to leave reasonably early from Mindarie.

Plan was to spend the majority of the day chasing KG's and a little bit of jigging.

Wind was up a little bit early on so stopped in at one of my shallower KG spots in 29m and had a look around. With the Fresh local Occy still being frozen, we strapped on the jigs for a bit of a play whilst the wind was up a little.

Well... First drop..jig jig and 2 bent rods. 1st up for Jarrid with a small Dhu about 48cm and i was on big. Did not really know what is was, but on PE 1.2 it was fair to say i was getting smoked.

Ended up calling it for likely a big Sambo and after 20 minutes and a bit of reversing up it popped finally. Not bad for the first drop of the day and on light gear!

Decided to continue out to the 40m coral chasing some KG's. Wind was starting to ease so putted our way out for a look. Didnt start off too well, getting railed a few times on the KG gear really isnt fun, think i busted 4 rigs in the first hour alone. Got a few fish up and plenty of sambo's about with a few small dhus.

Moved around a bit looking for fish and with me being sick of getting toweled up, i pulled out the big gear (And i must say inever bring the stella 8k out Metro unless jigging for sambo's!)

With  the sounder lit up i dropped down a couple mulies in hope of a sambo, and sure enough loaded up big time. Only having 60lb leader i didnt want to go too hard, and this thing had one thing in mind, run and hide! In an instant i was bricked...strange i thought, a sambo bricked me on flat coral!

Next minute Dano loads up big time on his KG gear. PE 1.2 with 40LB leader running snelled 1'O's using a small strip of Occy. Up and down like a a yoyo (definitely not a KG!) and thinking how the hell has this sambo not bricked him or atleast busted him off. Finally started to get some line after 10 minutes and Dano started to go a bit harder as we just thought sambo..

A few minutes later, this thing popped up behind the boat!!! One hell of a big Dhu boy and smashed my boat record. Went 106cm and measured on the digital scales at home at 21.2KG bled! what a cracker of a fish and probably 1 in a thousand chances of getting it up.

Struggled to get a picture that really did this fish justice.

A lot of luck in getting it up, not just keeping it off the bottom, but how did his leader not wear through on 40lb with snelled 1'os. Well ths pic below shows why. Could not had hooked it in a better spot, very little chance of the teeth wearing through the leader. How would you be catching a 20+kg dhu on a small strip of occy the size of your little finger with a dhu having a mouth big enough to fit your head in!

Rest of the day saw a few more fish come onboard finishing with 2 dhu's, 1 KG, 2 pinks. Probably landed 15+ dhu's just couldnt get away from them but all went back without a release weight including a 70cm model.

All fish except kept 1 pinky fell to snelled 1'os and skinned strips of occy. Jigs were slow, only 3 or 4 dhus landed on them

Will be hard to beat this dhu now! first on the boat over 20kg. Just goes to show, small hooks catch KG's and big dhus!

Bodie