Well done just shows how close the fish are sometimes. Are those blue grouper common in metro waters? Thought they were only down south, obvioulsy not.

we see alot on the back of the reef sometimes 2 to 4 on a dive. Most around the 6 to 8kg mark

Nice Paul, what depth?

18m -21m on the back of the reef. a few snapper in with the skippy .

well they def arent that scarce then. Well done again Paul n crew

good stuff Paul, must have been really cold in the water!!

Water wasn,t to bad .Warmer than two weeks ago. Still cold but .

nice stuff paul and jessie! good fish

wat are the blues like on the tooth paul? fella i know seen and took pics of one recently over at the islands.... would have thought gero and the abrolhos bit far north but ya never know i guess..

good fish again boys!

Wicked catch Paul. You don't see a lot caught, well done.

I have never caught one on a line before but they are quite prolific on the banks .Just had it for dinner and it was fine,not dhufish standards but still nice.I have heard the big ones are a bit chewy .That was our first on spear as we don't target them usually.

At least you've been getting out!  I am still flat out for another week!

Nice catch guys! would've been great conditions not much swell around at the moment, good vis?

well done mate.

i went out form two rocks aswell with my uncle and stayed in close. we were driving round the ledges and saw a big blue groper so over my uncle goes looks around for 20 of mins and comes up empty handed. we drove around more and saw a queen snapper and my uncle again spent some time swimming around looking to come up empty handed. then we drove around and my uncle saw a dhuie he spent 15mins trying to hunt this dhuie that was doing laps around him in the caves and then my uncle finaly got the shot and got it 63cm.

it was realynice out there ay. did you see alot of skippy out there??? we saw heaps of them they were following the boat.

good fish mate, and good eating for you.

cheers

well done boys. nice couple of fish on the guns. how was the vis and conditions

Good result. Never caught a BG up that way. Never even knew they were there. Well there you go.

Good catch Paul and Jesse, the bluey suprises me i had never even heard of them in the metro area until now , good to see you can still  get out

Water looks nice, was tempted to go for a late start after fitting the sounder, makes me wish I did now!!

Plenty of blue grouper down there ,I guess there are so many because they don't usually take baits ,did see one around 10-12 kg a few months back.

What is the water temp at the moment Paul ?

Mate couldn"t tell ya it wasn't to bad.don't check the temp.It did seem warmer than the last dive some weeks back .Can't wait for somer and some warm days will be out every chance.

you definately have that area sussed

i got a rob allen spear gun waiting to be christened, hint hint :D

Are you still around next weekend if so I give you a yell and you can jump on with Me and Jesse for a dive weather is looking ok at the moment,

Just send me a PM when your back and will get you up for a dive no problem.

nice spear there fellas, I rate the blue groper as good as a dhuie on the tooth, it's suprising if you're seeing that many that there aren't more caught on rod and reel. We used to get a lot as bycatch when chasing snapper and nannygai back in South Oz.
Do you find the dhuies pretty easy to shoot on scuba or are they a little flighty?

i know you are asking paul but the one my uncle shot on the week end it was very flighty, it swam in and out of caves. but he says there normaly interested in him while he's diving for crays but wen he gets the gun there gone lol. the one on the week end had a patch where there were no scales so and its in a round hole so i think that someone had a shot at him and the spear pulled thats why he was nerves. my uncle said he saw a big blue groper through the glass panel but as soon as we stopped the boat it was gone.

cheers

They can be hard to get you need to pretend you haven't seen them as if you head stright for them they spook .Baldies are the worst.If you see a good fish best just sit on the bottom and he carn't resist coming over to check you out ..crunch up a sea urchin they love them.We had a school of snapper one day come close but not close enough to get a shot ,they were all 8kg + fish very frustrating.

Baldies are very flighty usually, I remmeber seeing a big one off cov reef, it just dematerialised when we rolled into the water.

nice catch there Paul.

That Dhuie is a lot better than what you had in your hands when I spoke to you on the phone (Lol).

Yer mate that was a real crackup ,babies can be so sweet when not covered in pooooooooooo

And now you have a story to tell when she gets older and you can embarrass her.