Hey guys,

Headed out wide off Two Rocks with my mate Ray. We were committed and heading out from the ramp at 5am under the cover of darkness in the 660 Offshore. 

First stop was our little sambo lump north off the Marina. Set the anchor in 25mtrs when we got there and proceeded to get absolutley destroyed for 2 hours. Between the two of us we landed 20+ sambos, varying from your average 5kg bullet to a thumpin 15kg brawler. After getting that out of our system we ventured deep to our grounds 30 mile NW.

After the big journey we set the drift on my first lump and first drop saw my mate Ray land a nice 10kg Dhui. A few more drifts saw both of us land a couple of big breaksea and some sargeants. Moved to my next lump and while I cracked my first beer and set the drift my mate Ray dropped some freshly skinned Occy down 50mtrs and got smoked by what we straight up called a Dhui, after a short fight another 8kg Dhui was onboard, quick photo and it was released for another day, considering Ray pulled it hard from 50mtrs it had no barotrauma and was in excellent condition.

I managed to get my first drop of this drift and with some nice big chunks of Occy on, and within minutes my saltiga 6000 was hosed and I was on, half way up I felt a massive thump and thought a shark had just bricked me, but continued to fight on and I was amazed to see 2 nice Baldy's surface! high fives and back slaps all round!

Moved from that lump as I do not like to fish my spots too hard, and it was producing well. It was about 1pm by this stage and I thought we would try a spot I had marked the night before but I had never fished before we headed back. A little 3 mile journey north saw me sounding a nice contour line, no ground was initially spotted and my mate was calling it a day, then a big jump appeared on the sounded and it was loaded!! Sounded around to get an idea of the scale of the lump and it was decent to say the least.

I decided to start cleaning down the boat, so I set the drift and Ray dropped some thumping baits down. I was busy cleaning the boat up and soughting our tackle out when Ray's Penn International 12T sprung into life, peeling line of like a freight train. I organised the deck for him and prepared for a big fight. I must stress I have caught alot of fish in my time and we called this for everything but what it was, I called it for a big macky because the initial run was easily 100mtrs, then the second burst was 50mtrs! it was hosing him! Ray called it for a big tuna because of the deep circling and bursting runs. For sure this was a pelagic we thought, no doubt about it. After 20 minutes it all went quiet with the odd head shake but very deep and heavy, finally we thought big shark for sure. Then all of a sudden Ray started to make ground, slowly slowly he gained back metres, a big flash of silver came from about 100 mtrs from the boat, then it surfaced...... it was a bloody massive Dhui! It was the biggest Dhui ever to be brought on any of my boats. After some mahem getting it beside the boat and carefully gaffing it in the gob, I ripped it aboard for Ray and I tell you boys it was like lifting a fridge out of the water. We weighed it onboard @ 21kg. As you could imagine it was high fives, back slaps, hugs, many I love you mate comments and a few beers cracked as we marvelled at its size! That was it, the day was over, how could we top that. In the ice box it went and we set course for Two Rocks Marina.

A long way from home and a few coronas left in the ice box, we had a few beers and motored 2hours home. Wasnt too bad on the way back, sitting at a nice 20knots the 660 Offshore performed well.

Great day on the water! I get more pleasure out of taking a mate out fishing on my boat and seeing them get hosed all day and land big fish, than I do catching them myself. Their is no better feeling for a skipper!

(Its actually me holding the Big Dhui up, I did get some photos on his camera holding it up but for some reason we couldnt access them until last night, I will get his photos when I see him next and upload them, he is one happy bloke)

Shaun Clark

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