Sunday FAD's 26/2/2012
So it was looking like a average day on the water conditions wise but this didnt stop us. We hit the water at 3:30 am to go and find some live bait to try and entice a few dollies out at the fads. Found a spot nice and close to Pt peron boat ramp and loaded the live well with a mix of herring, whiting and skippy with no trouble at all.
Started the 1 hr 20 min ride out to the southern FAD just on sunrise, was a little rough and so was I but still managed 20-22 Kn. Arrived to decent conditions with the FAD all to ourselves, out goes the first herring and within 30 sec it was smashed by a dolly but to keen to set the hooks resulted in one dead hezza and no hookup. Out goes another but unfortunately the fish had shutdown so a move was needed to the FYC FAD. First drift through looked promising but sizes were only average,Ok this has to be it so out goes another hezza and bang hit sraight away and not wanting to miss this one i waited a bit longer to strike but no good.By this time both me and my bro were getting rather frustrated (especially ben).So he threw out another hezza and within no time was hooked up with a nice specimen and being the good brother he is handed it to me as this was my first ever dolly. After about 5 min it was landed and ended up being about the 5-6 Kg mark, not bad for a first but i really wanted one that would weigh up against my bro's on tuesday.
Next it was bens turn so out goes the livie and wasnt to long until we saw it smashed by one angry dolly that really didnt like what was going on, with an awsome display of aerial acrobatics it got to about 100 mtrs and snap the line goes slack with a failure of the braid. We continue to do our thing when ben tells me to try the 30 cm skippy, so out it goes while he had another hezza out but it looked like these fish had shutdown aswell until about 15 min later when my rod with the skippy on goes off ZZZZZZZZZZZ. Picked it up and set the hooks and boy was i in for a fight, after a few launches it tried to wrap me around the FAD but thanks to my bro again for some excellent skippering we avoided any tangles. After the first run it proceeded to dive to the depth of around 100 m and give me curry for the rest of the 20 min fight, i eventually tired it out and won the battle and with some nice gaffing skill's from ben it was landed. What a horse it was weighed at just over 12 Kg and 1280 mm long and i got what i wanted with it being slightly bigger than the one ben had got on tuesday, But wouldnt have happened without him. Oh and a big thanks to my dad for the use of his boat(Soome).
The ride home was very painfull to say the least as the wind had picked up a bit so it took 2 1/2 hrs sitting on about 10-12 Kn, but we were well rewarded for the effort with about 9 Kg of fillets from the two beautiful dollies. All in all it was a great morning out with a first for me and the biggest fish for the boat so far and a huge thanks to my bro for helping me tick another species of my list. Happy Days
Chris
kirky79
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Great fish mate. and top
Great fish mate. and top write up! Big bait big fish eh.
Ben82
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Good Write Up
Cheers bro! We are well and truely due for good conditions one of these days!
CBKINETIC
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HaHa yeah but its gunna have
HaHa yeah but its gunna have to be a week day as it always seams to be good during the week. when im working!
Faulkner Family
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congrats, getting your first
congrats, getting your first and then doubling the size with the second. sounded like an awesome fight. gotta be happy with the result.
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
hit n run
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great work guys that second
great work guys that second fish is a good size dolly well done
It used to hurt when I got cock in my ass......now I can take three at once and not feel a thing!
dkonig82
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Great dolly!
Great dolly!
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
madkeenmatty
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f yeah!
good catch,get the boat back next week !
and the adventure begins ,cant bloody wait and then ill show you a real dollie,lol
mc
meglodon
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can you tell me what brand of braid let you down
Hi Chris do you mind telling me what was the brand of braid that gave up the fight.
Ben82
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meglodon
It was my setup which let go, I noticed what looked like a couple of knots in the line sitting on the spool. I think that is where it let go, it was cheap ebay braid 15lb 100% deynema or something like that was the description. Do not buy this stuff, from the beginning I new it was bad after about 5 casts with the fresh spool I had huge wind knots.
However I did land my first Dolly on it, so can't completely rubbish it but definately would not buy again!
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/out-wide-tuesday-21-2-2012
meglodon
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thanks for the info
thanks for the information saves me buying something that isn't going to make the grade, guess the old addage you get what you pay for is true.
Righteo
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cracker fish bro.
cracker fish bro.
Here we go again.
Ben82
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Just put together a video, my
Just put together a video, my first attempt at video editting so nothing to special.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AR2BK_4rxk