Quite a stunning looking fish underwater and an ultimate predator of small fish, pity we only occasionally get them on the west coast. I've caught two in a couple of decades but on the plate they are the bees knees..

Hopefully get to catch some in your neck of the woods when we get there next month  

 just watched this on youtube. would have been great cruising with the dolphins. nice size dory 

 Thanks for watching guys. The John dory here get quite alot bigger than this speciman. Its always a welcome site seeing dolphins out on the water, and every single time they will swim along with you, theyre so playful

 They are amazing, I too have seen a very large pod, probably only in the hundreds though, still an impressive sight none the less

Used to get the occasional dory off the Busselton Jetty. Was fairly rare though  

 They are very common around jettys here, I remember as kid seeing one swimming around, catching a spray of some kind, putting it on a hook and dropping it down infront of the dory and it got eaten right away, it was awesome

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, magic fish.

 You put out a live yellowtail under a Bobby float on a hand line. Any of the wharves in the lower part of the harbour would produce them. Found a school of them once off Cronulla Point spearfishing, got 8 iirc, up to 4lb 12 oz., which would translate to about 2.4 kg.

 2.4kg is a good sized John Dory! We usually use livebaits set hard on the bottom