Super Genius
Out fishing for Dhues today. Normally like to use wrasse fillets, but i havent been out since before the ban so didnt have any of my own bait. Bought some mullet & octopus & had a piece of each on my rig. Drifting around for an hour with no decent bites so i thought to myself "If its not working, change something" Put out a small outfit & caught a little western king wrasse. Perfect I thought "live bait - that should kick things along" Put the top hook through the lip of the wrasse & sent it down. Bang - straight away a good fish. "Super genius" I thought to myself. Feels like an undersize Dhuie but never mind, the plan worked. Bring the fish up & yep its an undersize Dhuie. Wrasse still happily swimming along - The Dhuie had taken the skungy bit of mullet that was left on the bottom hook. Thats fishing for you - you never quite work it all out.
sunshine
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Well there were plenty out there
Caught two and a humongous blackarse, one returned well as I was by myself....all on western king wrasse best went a good 12 kg heading back to the ramp at 9 am as all the lazy fishos were still launching
C.P
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Well done Sunshine
I was out early so that wasnt the problem. Just didnt happen today.
Geoff78
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maybe the wrasse attracted
maybe the wrasse attracted the attention of the dhuie, so you can still claim genius status
C.P
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Maybe
Thanks Geoff78. I'm sure i'm no genius, but maybe you're right about the wrasse attracting the dhuie
sunshine
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I never fish them live
Love the brightly coloured small ones but always take a fillet off one side and remove the tail (stops the bait spinning) ......left them biting this morning and the sounder was lit up over flat hard coral or limestone . The black bum is about to grace our plates with home made wedges and fresh salad......yum
C.P
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I normally use fillets
Are you meaning - The whole fish minus one fillet & its tail on your hooks? I havent tried that.
sunshine
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No tail cut off the partially filleted WKW
if you leave the tail on the bait has a tendency to spin and tangle the snood but yes take a fillet off as it adds heap of scent
larger WKW I fillet and then cut the fillets longwise and fish then on a Flexy gang of small 2/0s .......yes I know they are small but once in they seldom let go