Popped my Cherry

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So we were booked for a charter on Absolute Ocean Charters for friday, but the Weather was crap, so we rescheduled for Sunday.  Had an awesome day with Mik and Kelly, with most people landing good fish. Their service, food, gear and attitude were just awesome.  Thanks for a great day. 

As usual Jane outfished everyone with a bag of: KGW, Blackarse, Fox Fish and Red snapper, along with a few sergent bakers.  My dad and Cameron bombed out with a few takes, but no boated fish.  My workmate Andrew got a 60cm+ Pink Snapper and a double header of one undersize and one nice dhuie, his mate Bernie got a nice Gummy Shark, and Andrews housemate Sanae got a fox fish and a blackarse before succumbing to seasickness.

I did ok with a fox fish to start the day, and then the Dhuie.  The Dhuie was the first fish of the day to take drag and probably took 5-10 mins taking it easy bringing him up.  As the first Dhuie I have caught I did want to take it home, and it looked a bit under the weather from Barotrauma. 

Weight : unknown because the scales maxed out at 20kg

Length: 120cm plus

Fillets and wings: 10kgs!

Im stoked and my arms and legs are sore:D

P.S Sorry for the photo layout but the multiple image thing kept crashing IE and I could only enter them in the body of the post.

 


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Great fish Sarcasmo

Mon, 2010-02-15 12:56

Mate, I would have been taking that one home too. That is a great Dhuie. It sure looks like Jane was on fire.

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Mate nice first one!!

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:00

No one in their right mind would throw him back, for the first dui caughtSurprised

Congratulations!!!!!!

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Wow, what a way to pop your

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:02

Wow, what a way to pop your cherry. Good luck trying to beat your PB. Could take a while.

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Cracking good Dhuie, you

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:09

Cracking good Dhuie, you didnt catch him near toothfish reef did you?Smile

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Great fish mate! Set the bar

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:11

Great fish mate! Set the bar a bit too high tho, you'll be very lucky to get a better one now! Few other great fish caught too, good trip out!

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Awesome work there Bryan.

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:13

Awesome work there Bryan. Not just even a decent sized dhuie for a first, but an absolute stonka. Good to see it was not an alvey too. Always more fun when you get to fight the fish on the right gear. Bet the memory will remain for quite some time. Gotta be pretty happy with the KG and red snapper too (quite tasty).

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That's a BIG fish

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:29

well done mate. Fantastic way to pop a cherry, that's for sure.

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Bloody awesom stuff brian,

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:35

Awesome stuff brian, shame i couldnt make it and it looks like i missed a ripper day!

 

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ahahha bryan. Got some

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:34

ahahha bryan. Got some thumpers there, nice dhu, fat looking kg, good feed for all. Awesome stuff mate, grats on that and props to the mrs for making you look bad ;)

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gotta love it when the

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:36

gotta love it when the weather and fish align like that, like the others said, it's gonna take some beating!
How big was the KG, looks pretty decent?

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I think around 54cm or something

Mon, 2010-02-15 13:53

Cheers for all the comments, yep I am stoked, my workmate isnt happy because the smile still hasnt left my face:D

Chan/James - Boy did you miss out on a cracker of a charter, always next time though!

Mik, there are more photos still to come from other peoples cameras, when I have got them all I will pick the good ones and send them off to you guys.  Thanks again!

 

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quality

Mon, 2010-02-15 15:55

The pics actually work like that.  Think you might be trying for a while to beat that one, what a horse!

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Awesome fish mate. Good

Mon, 2010-02-15 16:18

Awesome fish mate.

Good looking gummy too.

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Nice dhuie for the first

Mon, 2010-02-15 16:29

Nice dhuie for the first well done .

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It really sucks when you get

Mon, 2010-02-15 16:31

It really sucks when you get one like that to open the account, time to take up golf :P

 

Not jealous much =)

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gees that kg looks nice and

Mon, 2010-02-15 16:56

gees that kg looks nice and fat, you would get a couple of good fillets off that one.

 

 

 

 

 

oh yeah, nice monster of a dhuie too. well done to all that were out there  

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Mon, 2010-02-15 16:58

Well done, that KG is something to write home about too.

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Well

Mon, 2010-02-15 17:24

Well done, nice bag of fish mate! Now you have been out on a quality charter boat, there no going back.

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well done mate  agree with

Mon, 2010-02-15 17:53

well done mate

 agree with the above tho, you've raised the bar way way high there Laughing

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Yeh, that would be great if

Mon, 2010-02-15 19:20

Yeh, that would be great if you could send us some good pics, never know you could end up on our website with a fish like that. Cheers

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Well done looks like great

Tue, 2010-02-16 09:10

Well done looks like great weather too.

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