Sunday off Two Rocks
Last night managed to get a call from a friend of my Dad who was going out fishing and wanted to know if we wanted to go. I think the response time was in the milliseconds.
Left Two Rocks marina probably around 7am out to the 40m spots. The day started off quite quiet with a couple of bites but no fish. Eventually pulled up a fish that looked a bit like a sargeant baker without the high dorsal spine (grinner perhaps). The only important identification was 'bait'.
Soon after I landed the first edible fish and my first dhuie
48 cm, so back he went with a release weight but still pretty happy to catch my first one.
We tried a few spots but it was still a little quiet. The skipper managed to pull up a nice baldchin and his parter a small but legal dhuie. Bit more time passed and a larger dhuie a bit over 4kg came up.
The spots were getting bites but not much hookups. About 11 onwards though the fish started to come in slowly but steadily. I managed a small, and first baldchin
(43cm, 1.5kg)
Picked up a nice blackarse (again a first) not too long after
At 49cm and 1.75kg its a pretty good first legal blackarse :D
Another baldie and something else was picked up by other crew members, then I picked up another baldie, a bit bigger this time at 51cm/2.25kg.
Skipper with a 4kg dhufish:
My Dad hadnt caught a fish all day despite getting bites but eventually got hooked up to something decent which turned out to be a dhuie a bit over 5kg. Not large by dhuie standards but the biggest of the day and still a good fish.
I really wanted a pink snapper as they're my favourite eating fish, and as luck would have it I managed to pick one up :D. Was headshaking quite a bit as I was pulling it up so I knew it wasnt another baldie.
50cm and 1.6kg so not a thumper, but still a nice fish for my first pink snapper over 15cm :D. Just happy I caught it regardless of size.
In the last hour pulled my biggest skippy (440g) and my first harlequin (1.3kg)
All in all it was a pretty damn good day. We did end up loosing about 8 rigs to the snags of some sort two (several with fish attached) and a few dropped fish. No massive fish, but a great variety of top eating fish that I havent caught before. Ended up with 6 fish home and one released, twice as much as anyone else (from now on i'm sticking to those owner cutting point hooks, just excellent). Every one got at least one fish as well so everyone had a good time (and the conditions were perfect too, so even if your not catching fish its nice out there).
(sorry for the samey shots, my dad hadnt read the thread about the photography tips :p)
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Great catch Matt
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I like the second pic of you
I like the second pic of you dad's dhuie.
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Well Done
Well done Matt. The Deckie Gods came through for you in the end with a ride and a few fish.
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That pic was inspired by
That pic was inspired by Andy's style. Came out quite well.
Still lots of fish out there to catch Andy, lets see:
King George
Dolphin fish
YTK's
YFT's
flathead (legal)
spanish mack
mulloway
queen snapper
red snapper
a legal dhuie
other whiting besides western school (e.g. yellowfin)
shark
Certainly got a great mixed bag of some top eating fish though.
And thats not mentioning northern species you dont get here. Plus theres a lot of room for weight improvements (e.g. a legal dhuie).
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Nice
Nice day.
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Top effor hlokk !
Definately a great haul there mate - well done and thanks for sharing. Nice to see a photo of a release weight too! Good idea :))
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Nice one Matt
Some great fish and pics there. Always great to catch a first.
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Squidgy slick rig on a
Squidgy slick rig on a paternoster. It was the top one of a rig that was 2-3m+ and the sinker was about a meter off the bottom so he was a bit hungry (I normally have shorter sections if i'm doing 3 droppers, but I just added a section to an existing 2 dropper to put it on). I've heard they work well for dhuies (and looking like a whiting you could see why).
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nice!
Well done Matt and crew, was a nice day for sure and some nice eating fish. Those size dhufish are the best for sure and congrats on the good day!
You made a coment ie "We did end up loosing about 8 rigs to the snags of some sort two (several with fish attached) "..........Sounds like you may have snagged on their cray ropes at a quess?...if so did you mark the pots to let them know?
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We recon we lost a couple of
We recon we lost a couple of rigs on abandoned cray pots, but there was no rope to attach any marker to. We checked the angles of our lines and the angles off the craypot lines but they didnt seem to be the same point. The skipper was very careful to set the drift up to avoid the ropes (only one spot we were close enough to catch and we watched the rope til we were drifting away before dropping down). One rig was caught either on the craypot or the rope, but a marker was tied off on the rope. The skipper is quite experienced and we were all using braid, so you could tell whether it was caught on a rope quite easily. We did loose about 50m of braid to one of the snags as the braid pinged on deck when maneuvering the boat. We went back over the area and tryed dropping down some rigs to catch it. The skipper was jigging a really large SP and we managed to recover the line.
Its certainly good going out on a boat with people who have a release weight allready rigged up (I brought mine just in case), know about tying off on craypots and try their very best not to leave a single scrap of rubbish in the ocean. Though everyone I've been out with from the forums has been a very responsible skipper. Certainly not the case with some random shore based anglers I end up meeting.
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good repot
good report @ pics m8, congrats on your first dhu................
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great stuff sounds like a
great stuff sounds like a good day and a few pb fish some good pics to well done
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Talking of rubbish in the ocean
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pmsl, where's the pic of
pmsl, where's the pic of that one andy, changed from inflated dolls to half inflated bunnies now, hope it was a playboy bunny
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I can top that we got a six
I can top that we got a six foot pink panther , and a large blow up crock floting along 10 mile out, some kids christmas present i guess .We had the tied on the bridge for a couple of weeks, got some funny looks coming in the marina..
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lol could imagine paul,
lol could imagine paul, there can be some funny things floating around out there
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Found a 16' runnerbout once
Found a 16' runnerbout once half full of water , lost from rotto
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