Sunday fishing with the Dhuie Lure
Well we wen't out yesterday for a bit of a fish and test the repaired motor out.
Left oceanreef at 7.20 am and headed to 3mile reef testing the motor for about 1 and a half hours around there. Plenty of wrasse, but not much else.
So we headed out to the 40M mark to a couple of spots searching for dhuies. When heading out we ran over a bit of good ground so turned around for another look. The ground looked real good and at one stage had about 15 fish on the sounder. So down went the dhuie lure did a drift - nothing.
Second drift the lure hit the bottom and BANG it was off heading west and not slowing, had the fish on for about 20 seconds and snapped me, end of the dhuie lure!
So we did another 5 or so drifts over this spot each drift showing huge numbers of fish. Though we didn't hook up again.
Then we moved we moved out to a lump and this spot had 2 cray pots, in 40M of water and the pots had approx 100M of line out, so I hooked up to a fish and within a couple of seconds I was around the line and lost it!
Try number 2 the boat was left running and we stopped right over the the top of the lump, after about 30 seconds I hooked up, again the fish was heading straight for the the ropes but, I managed to turn it, so after 20 or so minutes of fighting we begun to see some colour but the fish didn't like that so back down it went to the bottom. Another 10 minutes later I got the fish up enough to see what it was a bloody stingray 6ft wide, so again it started to run as it didn't like the look of the boat, at this stage 30mins had passed so I clamped down and broke the line.
In the end we ended up with a couple of breaksea and a few wrasse.
Craggles
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Bugger mate Those cray pots
Bugger mate
Those cray pots can be annoying sometimes.
You'll have to give that new spot ya found another crack
Dean
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Yea pots are a Pain,
Yea pots are a Pain, hopefully the fish will be biting next time.
max199
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mmm
Damn pots. Hope you marked the line if you lost gear on it Dean. Otherwise the poor prick will cop a sinker in the head! MAXY
deepwater
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hi dean a bit of a bugger
hi dean a bit of a bugger about the pots there but they will be gone soon trust me, i got 6,16oz sinkers come around the winch today ,all most got me with 12 hooks , we only have untill the end of the month them we are pulling our gear out (i carnt wait)pots off all the good dhufish ground
jeff
ps : is there plans for a new dhufish lure???
Dean
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Yeah marked the pots with a
Yeah marked the pots with a rag so no probs there.
It's down to city farmers to see if i can pick up a couple more fake lobsters.
I sent down the fake cray on it's own, though next time I am going to run it on a rig and use it similar to a lumo squid on the bottom hook, that will hopefully ensure that it doesn't go upside down and I can fill the insides with a few mulies, should be less chance of it catching the bottom aswell.
Hey jeff thats a bit scary, luck you didn't cop a hook in the arm or something.
deepwater
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cray pot hooks
yer got use to it now ,we would get about 2 a week out side 25 m(14fathams) . looking forward to see how the new improved modil goes dean ,sounds good
jeff
ps :not to many people mark the floats at all :{
Dean
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yeah thats no good doesn't
yeah thats no good doesn't take much to tie a little rag or something on, it could save someones life. I would won't to get hit in the head with 20 oz of lead.
Though it doesn't help when cray fisherman use 100 meters of rope in about 40M of water.
Will bring the video camera next time, wish I had the fight from the ray recorded, Hell of a lot of power in a fish to be brought up from 40M of water after 30mins and see the surface and dive back down 30 or so meters.
Ryan Thipthorp (not verified)
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They use 100m so that they
They use 100m so that they can move their pots in or out without changing ropes over all the time.
A tip, look where the ropes going down to the pot and drop on the spot, straight up and down and less chance to loose rigs and leave dangerous hooks & sinkers on ropes. Marking the floats as you did is a good thing, so is tying the floats up if you dont have a rag or plastic bag!
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Dean
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Yeah we were fishing right
Yeah we were fishing right on top of the lump marked on our GPS, and when I got the fish on it went straight to the rope, so not much you can do about that.
We learnt though, keeping the motor running then moving away from the pots slowly when a fish is on helps to try and turn the fish.
deepwater
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thats ok we only we use so
thats ok we only we use so much rope with the tides,no tide we got lotes of rope on the surface and we the tide is on we lose all of our gear so we are doon if we do and dooned if we dont
we are all there to catch a feed amatures are there for an hour and pros are there for 24 hours (some times )the water is all of ours thanks dean