Sunday report (pic added)

 So it's  up at 4.30 am for the hour and a half drive to the Bird with oldest son and his best mate who's never caught a Dhuie before all very excited to have a crack as it's been so long. Not sure of what to expect weatherwise as it changed so much through the week, but we were stinging to get out once we saw the water literally lapping on the beach.

Launch and out to a shallow water mark in 23m and son's mate is hooked straight away to a nice Banger, 5 mins later and he pulls in a nice Blackarse so he's pumped.

But I wanted to get out wide and explore knowing we had time on our side. Into the 40's and I'm on first drop to another nice Banger. So we headed further out and I nailed the two Baldies on Mulies. Son drops a a very light placcy as there was no drift and gets smashed by something huge, he battles it for around 5 mins before it smokes him.

He now agrees with me he's fishing too light as this is the second time it's happened him and what I reckon are probably dream Dhuies. So we bag out and the boys want to drop Jigs on top of the Tanais reef, very rare that we can fish on there so I sit on the wheel motor running it was good condition wise on there but was taking no chances. Anyway we are in 6m of water and the sounder is showing all kinds of crazy shit big bommies etc. So Dylan gets smashed on his light rod first and pulls in a massive Black arse, next Rory drops his Octo and bang!!! Something big is on his Gomoku with blistering runs and he's shitting himself about getting bricked I get a glimpse and it looks like a massive Pinky, I'm thinking it has to be the power display this thing is putting on. Anyway he gets on top of it and up comes a 7kg Dhuie as brown as seaweed, a true resident. Quick photo and release, high fives all round for a super day.

Little bit of sounder porn, I only use the fish symbols because I can't see the sounder very clearly from the back of the boat, bad eyesight in my older age lol.

Could've gone for a night fish with those conditions 

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Mon, 2017-02-20 20:30

 Very nice Andy, and yes, Sunday night would have been perfect for an all nighter

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 Cracking day Andy! Gotta be

Mon, 2017-02-20 20:34

 Cracking day Andy! Gotta be happy with that

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 Top bag that, nice

Mon, 2017-02-20 20:40

 Top bag that, nice work.

Great looking sunset to finish off.

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Good bag !

Mon, 2017-02-20 20:47

 top bag there sea kem !! Worth the drive 

and effort !! Nice work !

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Great report Andy

Mon, 2017-02-20 20:48

Looks like an amazing day.  

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Nice bag

Mon, 2017-02-20 21:41

nive brace of fish there Andy , well done.

looks like awesome conditions too just to top it off.

 

cheers

 

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Nice going on the fish front

Mon, 2017-02-20 22:15

you must not have been happy with your bag limit though? You kept a Sargent baker? As part of your catch?

not only are they boney as all hell, they stink like buggery Lao!

 

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 It's for Cray bait, the boys

Tue, 2017-02-21 05:17

 It's for Cray bait, the boys lined that pic up.

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Great report!

Mon, 2017-02-20 22:22

 Great report, mate!

 

Your son didn't listen to you the first time regarding using light gear?? LoL.   I'll take his spot on the boat then. Promise I'll listen to whatever you say!  Haha

 

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Awesome catch Andy. 

Tue, 2017-02-21 04:43

Awesome catch Andy. 

 

And good choice on the beer. Rogers are a fantastic drop.

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Nice fish Andy

Tue, 2017-02-21 04:53

 Where's the photo of the brown Dhu?

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 Yeah it's on my son's phone,

Tue, 2017-02-21 05:18

 Yeah it's on my son's phone, I'll get him to send it to me.

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cool

Tue, 2017-02-21 10:24

 don't think i've seen one that colour before

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Great stuff Andy, even better

Tue, 2017-02-21 06:50

Great stuff Andy, even better watching the boys pull some good fish I'm sure.

Good to see them wanting and using the different artificial's.

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 As always Andy You've got

Tue, 2017-02-21 12:03

 As always Andy 

You've got sea bird dialled in nicely. 

I did a shit load of miles on sun for Nada 

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 Lol yeah I saw the

Tue, 2017-02-21 15:34

 Lol yeah I saw the Dragonfly 

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great job Andy - good to see

Tue, 2017-02-21 12:14

great job Andy - good to see the boys onto the jigs, the pink Octo one of my favs, never misses.

We are up your way quite a bit ex two rocks, might catch you out there one day mate

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 That would be good mate, I

Tue, 2017-02-21 15:34

 That would be good mate, I always monitor 96 27 meg

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Cheers for all the comments

Tue, 2017-02-21 15:43

Cheers for all the comments fellas, it's appreciated.  

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 Nice work Andy good spread .

Tue, 2017-02-21 17:35

 Nice work Andy good spread . We did ok Sunday as well 2 dhu 6 big kg and a large whiskery .

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 That's a very nice bag mate 

Tue, 2017-02-21 18:24

 That's a very nice bag mate 

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 Sounds like a great day on

Tue, 2017-02-21 19:08

 Sounds like a great day on the water and thanks for the great report.

A nice result with some fine tasting meals coming up.....well done 

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Well done mate

Tue, 2017-02-21 19:24

 fantastic bag and lovely conditions

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Great stuff Andy

Tue, 2017-02-21 19:36

 Good read - cracker day 

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Cracker day indeed!

Wed, 2017-02-22 12:00

Gotta love watching the boys hook up, great fish there.

Mine still a bit young, we hung out on the beach at Wedge on Sunday.

Andy, ring me hahaha!! 

 

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 Great bag Andy. Wish a few

Wed, 2017-02-22 15:47

 Great bag Andy. Wish a few more baldies would swim down our way.

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 Killing it again Andrew,

Thu, 2017-02-23 08:43

 Killing it again Andrew, great fish. I will be up there Saturday to have a go.

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 I'll give you a wave from

Thu, 2017-02-23 20:55

 I'll give you a wave from the shore mate lol Delivering our new couch so no fishing for me. Will be up there for the long weekend though so fingers crossed weather wise.

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