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Wrasse...good Dhuie bait

white flesh but mushy. good for the smoker and yep, great for dhuies!.

thanks guys i think they ate it we had left by that time and we didnt have a boat to use it for bait

your 'friends' have been done for Hawrassement alright. Good old Fishwreckapedia shows -

Western King Wrasse pass through several colour changes as they grow.  Male Western King Wrasse are deep pink/red in colour with a wide cream vertical stripe running halfway up the body behind the pectoral fin.  Adult females are cream to red with a red horizontal stripe extending through the eye to the base of the tail.  Juveniles and females set up cleaning stations to remove skin parasites from other fish.

Juveniles have two horizontal black stripes.  The upper one changes to red and the lower one disappears on maturity.

Western King Wrasse grow to 40cms in length. 

As with all fish, eating quality depends on individual tastes.  The flesh is soft, white and bland.  They are considered good bait for dhufish.

In Australia, Western King Wrasse are found from Coral Bay, south to the Recherche Archipelago Esperance in Western Australia, in offshore waters preferring areas of reef and sand. 

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hey guys - when you say these are good bait for dhus - have u had much luck live baiting small ones?  Or is it best to just go with a slice of wrasse on the hook?

Slab on the hook,shits on squid for bait.

How do you hook the slab ? is a snelled rig better? what size slab would you recomend?

Small ones stright on live bait .get smashed.as for slabs bigger is best a whole side hooked through a single hook a couple of times does the trick

 yers it a wrasse, crp to eat and a pain in the ass they are like blowies, nice herring but :)

if there like blowies your fishing the wrong area, unless you like wrasse

 nahh they are a pain in the ass, i was catching heaps of them off the boat ramp at coral bay