Two Rocks Sunday 4/3/12
Hey there,
Just a few pics of sundays effort off two rocks... Awesome weekend of weather and a great day of fishing to boot.
Early drifts with the early morning breeze produced a number of dhuies in around the 3-5kg range on bait... all released successfully, a couple blackass and a fat baldie that went in the esky.
All went quiet when the wind dropped off and the sea flattened making things hard... A few solid hits on jig to suspected bigger model dhu's were dropped. All we could manage were a heap of wrasse on jig and a large toothy pike that destroyed my pirate assist... decided to troll around for a while till the afternoon wind picked up which resulted in nothing.
Started to worry we werent going home with a dhu in the esky, arvo breeze picked up so decided to head back in closer to a mark i made on the way out while cruising, set the drift even though the sounder showed nothing promising. My bro Dave has his mc carthy finesse minnow smashed a minute later and lands a nice 7kg dhu on light gear. All smiles :)
A friend rocks up asking to setup a drift for him as his sounder has packed it in so we decide to reset the same drift to help him out rather than head back in.
Glad we decided to make that decision as the same placcie on the same outfit gets engulfed after a few twitches immedietley after hitting bottom. Fought the fish a good 10 mins or so struggling to get it off the bottom. Was pretty sure it was a solid dhu. Boy were we over the moon to see a 17kg dhu surface 50m from the back of the boat. A new pb for the new boat.
Family were all smiles to say the least ;)
Just a quick question? Having only recently purchased a boat and started fishing... we landed a tagged dhu but had no idea in regards to how to go about recording information and who to make the phonecall to. Wouldnt mind a bit of help in regards to what should be done for future recaptures?Cheers Rob.
Rob
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Andy_b
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sounds like a great day well
sounds like a great day well done and the dhuie is a horse :)
Brody
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Awesome news about the
Awesome news about the tagged fish, and fantastic dhu too mate. Google Westag, and you'll find all the info you need, what was the number?
Ryan C
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tagged fish
can you post the number of the tag?, there are a couple of guys on here that tag a lot of dhufish including a guy that works for me, well done on the fish mate!!. cheers
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Nice
Great boat PB. The softies seem to work a treat on the bigger models.
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Great work with the fish -
Great work with the fish - thats a solid dhu
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Nice
Nice one brother
FishOn570
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nice work boys.... very nice
nice work boys.... very nice pb dhu aswell
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cheers
Thanks Brody will have a look. No worries Ryan ill see if i have the number written down still on the tub when i get home.
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thats one monster dhuie.
thats one monster dhuie. well done on helping a mate out with a drift but you could have let them get the dhuie, not. that could be one of Paul G 's tagged dhuies. i know he taggs heaps up there. great effort for a new boat.well done
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Congrats on an awesome trip
Some crackin fish there.
With the tagged fish there is usually a 1800 number on the tag itself that you can call to give them the details of the tag number and the approx location / depth etc.
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nice fish got two black ass
nice fish got two black ass and 6kg dhui on monday
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I have tagged 170 dhuies from
I have tagged 170 dhuies from two rocks you just need to get the tag number and ring the 1800 number on the tag.if you can get a measurement and depth of and gps marks caught that would help alot. all info you give is confidential. if you don,t want to give marks a rough area would be good. W ell done on the trip sounds like you had a good day on the water .
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Nice work guys and top pics.
Nice work guys and top pics. I'm still looking for my first sized Dhuie of the year.17 kg is a horse in my books
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great work rob, dave and
great work rob, dave and crew some great fish there boys It was wise to stay a little longer congrats
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Cheers fellas
Had a look in the boat for the number I wrote down but my bro must of chucked it while cleaning... after taking it out on the Monday again. Have saved the westag info on my phone for future recaptures will be glad to help those involved with tagging this iconic fish species.
Rob
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