Good Day off the Cape.
With the weather looking the goods decided to head out for a fish yesterday. Reached the first spot at about 7am to find good fish showing on the sounder. First drop and i was on to a solid fish. A few minutes later had a Dhuy of around 13kg on board. Decided to move on after this fish. Dont like hammering the same spot to much. Next destination was to some ground further out. After a bit of searching found some more fish on some broken ground. My mate Gav managed to hook into something huge. After about 10 minutes he hadnt managed to get the fish off the bottom and was busted off. Showed signs off a big Dhuy. Next drift I hooked up to something solid again only to loose the fish from a hook staightening. Things seem to go quite after this so we decided to try one more spot further north before heading in. After a couple of drifts on the new spot without much luck and the wind picking up it was time to head home. Just as I was about to start the donk the sounder was showing 5 solid balls on the bottom.(Love my Koden) Dhuys. Straight back down and Gav was on. Minutes later Gav had landed a solid fish of around 16.5kg. Now it was definately time to head home.
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Brendan
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great stuff looks like a fun
great stuff looks like a fun day thats why i want a boat quick question are dhufish better eating when they are smaller or do they tast the same
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nackers
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good lookin
good lookin fish there seaquest we were out there too weather was spot on we managed two bout the same as yours plus couple of cod and two king george that were 60cm long top day
HuggyB
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great pair
some good eating in that catch!
Conditions look magic as well.
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nice feed there Seaquest ..
nice feed there Seaquest .. i was out at nato playing with tuna :)
Colin Hay
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Great work Seaquest
Some very nicfe Dhuies there. Any reason why the bottom hook is not snelled as well in the second picture?
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Seaquest
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No reason Colin. Would I be
No reason Colin. Would I be better off snelling the bottom hook? I mainly use butterflied herring for bait. Top hook though the eye and the bottom hook about two thirds the way down the fish.
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I tied a Uni knot on the bottom hook of a two hook snell set-up
the other day because I was in a hurry to get a line back down. I thought that maybe I had stumbled on a "secret" rig (Lol).
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geez brendo! Do you ever
geez brendo! Do you ever work haha, great catch! Sounds like you have the fishing all sussed out there. Im still yet to make a trip thata way. Its just been bills bills bills latley:(
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damo6230
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well done Brendan
some quality fish there.
leave some for us
wayno05
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Some nice wings there:P
And a shiz load of fillets, nice one..
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Quality Dhues
Been a while since we've seen some solid dhuies, nice catch fellas.
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Lucky Tim
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plenty of meat there, good
plenty of meat there, good work to all. I spent the morning in Busso and looking out to sea was very jealous of all those heading out to sea.
I remember reading somewhere that the dhuies with the elongated dorsal fin are the dominant males in the school/area. Has anyone heard of this before?
HuggyB
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the elongated dorsal
(the mohawk) indicates that it is a male, the females dont have them.
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nice
nice dhuie pair
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where
out in the 60,s or same ground
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well done guys. gotta be
well done guys. gotta be happy to get 2 big fish. pity about the bust off and the straightened hook , they could have been monsters.
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