saturday nights efforts including a supprize catch!! (photo added)
with the weather looking good troy, my mate whitey and myself decided to head out for a night fish.
got in the water about noon and headed out to the north side of rotto in the 40's looking for some dhu's before it got dark, well, after many spots tried with nothing coming over the side at all and nearing dark we decided to head in to a spot in 20mtrs and drop the pick down and start the burly going.
after 20 mins the first fish pulled over the side was a 63cm dhu, followed by another 2 after that,
a bit smaller than my keeping rule at 60cm, but well over 50cm, so they were returned.
from then on the dhu's went quiet and everything else started, pinky's galore with some keepers and alot of under size thrown back, 2 nice KG's, 2 bronzey's, 1 leapord shark (i think), skippys by the truckload, 3 port jacksons, dirty stinken eel, plus numerous other shit fish and a couple of decent squid.
only a few fish kept for the table and every thing else returned.
there were plenty of squid but they were very fussy and wouldnt chase the jig, so only managed the 2.
then troy being the jag ass prick he is, pull's this crayfish in on the bottom hook, bloody good size as well, spewin we couldnt keep it.
heres a pick of the cray(sorry about the pick it's of the phone) and ill put up some pics of the fish 2morow sometime.
a good night with lots of fish caught by all!! with a few jimmys washing it all down.
cheers ron
this is what was kept for the night
Batty
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Good night
Well done lads, lovely night for it, bet you wish you had lemon juice on board for the Cray LOL
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SABRE
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Yep jag ass sure sums it up !
Yep jag ass sure sums it up !
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spook
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Good night then fellas!
Good night then fellas! Nearly caught them all
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sea-kem
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That's awesome Ron. Sounds
That's awesome Ron. Sounds like you were fishing an aquarium. Did you stay out all night?
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fisho-ron
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no mate, headed back in about
no mate, headed back in about 9pm
southcity104
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sounds like it was firing
chilled out night sessions are great esspecially when th fish a on. top stuff ron
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meersy
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Pitty ya didnt have a
Pitty ya didnt have a microwave on board.That cray would have made a tasty night snack;)
carnarvonite
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Tar spot
Even if it was in season, you couldn't keep it. The tar spot stands out like dog bollocks.
fisho-ron
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i dont cray mate, so dont
i dont cray mate, so dont know what you mean? yeh it had a clear black spot underneath
im guessing female or something like that?
either way i dont have a lic for them anyway and it would be a bit hard explaing that we caught it on a dhuy rig!!!!
dont think they would belive me somehow.
carnarvonite
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Tar spot
When they have got the black tar spot showing up they are just about ready to spawn a whole batch of eggs under the tail. The swimmerettes on the inside of the tail go all hairy like an Italian grandmothers armpit [was going to put something else down but kids read this too]
Its against the law to take them in that condition
fisho-ron
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thanks mate, thought it would
thanks mate, thought it would of been something like that..... learn something new every day
Faulkner Family
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sounds like it all went to
sounds like it all went to plan for you. well done with the successfull night fish,would have been cold tho.
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Goodz
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Wish I was out there with
Wish I was out there with yous mate, that woulda been a fun sesh on the pick. Nice variety too.
fisho-ron
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yeah ben it was a good night
yeah ben it was a good night with a laugh included
hekser
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nice bag there
awesome to catch a cray on a hook. bet that spun you all out :D
grayzeee
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Good night then Ron. How is
Good night then Ron.
How is it when you head miles out for nothing , come in and drop anchor and clean up. right time right place.
well done.
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
fisho-ron
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yeah mate,couldnt belive it
yeah mate,
couldnt belive it ourselves, we were on the north side of rotto in the 40's and couldnt get a bite,
i put it down to the time of the day.
come in to 20mtrs, 3.5mile out and get a shitload of fish from the word go, with the dhuy's and the cray the real supprize.
the biggest dhuy took a whole unweighted mulie floating out the back.
it was on no ground at all either, just somewhere we thought would be a good spot to anchor.
cheers mate
Dirt
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Top effort boys
Nice feed there boys,even better from ground most people wouldn't even consider fishing
Bodie
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Nice work mate, some solid
Nice work mate, some solid fish!!
crasny1
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Cray on hook
Well done on the catch and it did sound like a busy period with all the fish.
Up here in Dampier got a painted cray on the hook. Very surprised because I thought they were vegetarians. Must have just jagged it.
Neels
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carnarvonite
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Northern crays
Not 100% sure but recall they are meat eaters and think the reason why they cannot catch northern crays in pots is that they go in head first unlike southerns which go in tail first. Their whiskers won't let them enter the pot to get at the bait.