Yesterday off Mindarie
The forcast was looking good so headed out with 3 mates from Mindarie at 6am. The plan was to go a bit deeper than normal for us and try to find some ground in the 70-100m range. We had an area picked from the charts that we though looked promising but it was really going to be hit it and explore.
As we got to the 40's we passed over a nice lump in the middle of nowhere and decided to hit it for a quick drift so 2 of the blokes could get their gear sorted. 2 of us were already prepared.
Bluey, who was on only his second fishing trip ever, hooked up and landed his first Dhuie, a nice little 55cm model. On the back side of the lump i hooked into a 5f bronzey that was released to live another day.
The easterly had started to pick up a bit of pace by then and the skipper decided he didnt want to head out much deeper in case the wind got nasty as it would be an uncomfortable trip back. The decision made we headed for some spots in the 40's to see what was around.
The morning was very slow after that with almost no pickers and only a couple of little pinkies released and the biggest sargent backer any of us had seen. As the arvo rolled around it picked up a little bit and i landed a nice 74cm pinkie that went 4.5kg. (the only photo that we took for the day)
We landed a nice whiskery shark and while that was being sorted the skipper hooked onto another little Dhuie of 56cm. As he was de-hooking it Tony got a big hit that he lost. I told the skipper not to spike the dhuie as we were going to hook a much bigger one and 15sec later i was on. After a nice little fight up popped a 8.3kg model so the smaller one was released.
The southerly was picking up by then so we headed in.
Good day out with mates and a feed for all.
Sometimes when the water is quiet, you can hear the fish laughing at you !
uncle
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Better then work
Nice pinkie
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
dw72
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good write up..
some good meals comin up there
was the smaller dhuies lucky day!
dw72
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Date Joined: 19/02/15
good write up..
some good meals comin up there
was the smaller dhuies lucky day!
Deleted
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Nice one
Nice one
Cold Feet
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Good call on the Dhu fish.
Good call on the Dhu fish. luck or skill...? LOL!
Nice day out - great report - well done!
Cheers,
Cold Feet
Madmerv
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Luck or skill
Well there was a fair bit of good natured Ribbing going on especially as the first words from my mouth on hook up was "Now that's how you hook them Tony' followed by plenty of "watch the master at work etc". Just asking to cop shit for an hour or so...Lol
The call to save the small dhuie was because i was running a much smaller sinker than the other guys so my rig was about 10m behind theirs on the drift. I was also running a snelled hook rig with 2 fresh strips of seargent baker that any hungry fish must not be able to resist and Tony just showed me something was there.
Skill : Fresh bait presented as naturally as possible.
Luck : There was a fish hungry enough to eat it..
My call is it was the skill of the man but if someone else had caught it i would have called it luck. Lol
Sometimes when the water is quiet, you can hear the fish laughing at you !