Pinkies by the dozen
Mate Nic and I decided to have a mid-week fish despite the 3.5m swell that was pushing through. We launched from Woodman Point just after first light and whilst making our way across the Sound we already encountered some fairly large swells. By the time we arrived between Garden and Carnac Islands the swell was breaking all over the place and I was contemplating returning to the jetty. We eventually got through the islands but Five Fathom was white with breaking waves. We decided to eliminate the risk and travelled parallel to FFB to about 5km before Rottnest where we found a safe passage through. From here a further 30 minutes and we were on our favourite bommie.
Not long after dropping anchor and setting up a burley trail we started catching Pinkies one-after-another and at times with double hook-ups. We managed a couple of smallish Sambos and both got smashed a couple of times on light gear. When the bites eventually slowed down we decided to do a drift with the sea anchor deployed and I managed to catch my largest Dhufish to date - a specimen of 79cm. Still a long way to go to the magical 100cm, but this goal is in my sights now that we are gaining a better understanding of these magnificent waters.
All in all another wonderful opportunity on the waters of Western Australia (and a great feed too).
YouTube - http://youtu.be/iVEk5V9VoD8
Story - http://fisheagle.homestead.com/Outings2014/PinkiesAugust2014/Pinkies.html
Fisheagle Ed
Colt_Striker
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Good report, fish & great
Good report, fish & great pics
Ush
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lekker
Niceone gents
Got keen?
deepwater
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nice pinkies
nice feed there fisheagle ,the colour of the pinky in the first photo s are excellent nice fish mate
jeff
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Another great report! The
Another great report! The Dhuie's are getting bigger
Love the West!
Adam Gallash
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quality
Great quality photos Ed, fish aint too bad either!
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Boydy
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Some nice fish there and top
Some nice fish there and top photos.
Well done on the PB Dhu to top off a good session.
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Nice
Great quality photos of some great fish, well done
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Concur with the photos
And the fish is as said above "baie lekker".
What camera took those crisp shots, and sorry to ask have they been doctored? They looks so clear, especially the first pink.
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Enhanced photos
I use a Nikon 3000 for my pics and pass my photos through a software program called Adobe Lightroom. I would not call it doctoring but more enhancement which removes unwanted shadows and ensures a true colour. Doctoring fishing photos in my book means Photoshopping to increase the size of the fish - seen a few of those around. And yes the Dhufish was "baie lekker" - the best tasting fish that I have encountered.
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beau
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Great explanation Eagle. We
Great explanation Eagle. We arent "doctoring" photos ie. chopping the image up and making things look larger than what they should be. Its just a post-correction of the original image, touching up colours, cropping the frame, straightening horizons etc. Once you use a DSLR out on the water you realise how hard it is to take the perfect image out there, theyre very sensetive to light change, much quicker to take 5 quick photos and do the rest at home than fiddling around with settings on the boat
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Great trip gues and good
Great trip gues and good quality pics too... and good fish :) well done
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Nice
Quality result in bog conditions. FFB was a dangerous place on Wednesday.
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