Squid, herring and Sambos at Dunsborough
Spent the long weekend with the family in Dunsbourough. Dragged the boat down for a squid and yes there were plenty around. No Pics cause I am sure most know what a squid looks like.
My Father in law tagged along on this morning as he is a keen Cottesloe herring fisherman. He uses an 15 year old Diawa spinner on a glass 12 foot rod which would be 20 years old with nice new pretest. Funny that. Any way he got a few herring while my wife cleaned up on the squid. We were given a secret spot to try for some bottom fish no more than 1 km from Dunsborough town site.
I rigged up our bottm gear with fresh squid baits and driffted across the ground we found. My wife was bitten clean off on 100 KG leader. I snapped off on a snag and my father in law thought he was snagged as well until his big arse beach rod started bending under the hull and around in circles. 30 Minutes later with the old Diawa holding on for grim death we boated a sambo that bottomed out my lip grip scales.
Big smile from the old man and pleanty of tales to tell when we got home. We took a quick pic or 2 which are below and spent a few mins getting the fish healthy for a nice release.
harro
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lol
happy days mate, near the ol mussell farm?
glad you had a good weekend, and yup squid are everywhere,
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hlokk
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Must have been a lot of hurt
Must have been a lot of hurt on the bloke getting such a sambo on a 12' rod. Ouch.
big john
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Chiro
Nice work guys. When's the chiropractor visit? :)
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Goatch
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Nice work
well done , shit that sambo would have hurt on that outfit .
Just one more cast , honest !!!