Beautie of a week
Submitted by AmericanBen on Thu, 2010-06-03 20:34
Tue arvi, thumper whiting and a flounder, Wed bagged out on herring and today; 48cm Queen Snapper, 32cm Nannagai, 40 cm skippy, 2 large sweep and (2 dhuie and a pinkie ...all 3 at 48 cm). In the past 3 weeks, I must have caught and released at least 10 just undesize pinkies and dhuies :(. It was so nice out there that catching fish was just a bonus. If that wasn't enough 2 whales came right up to the boat on one of our drifts and put on a show with the tail out of the water. Man I love WA!
till
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Sounds like you found some
Sounds like you found some good ground, just gotta work on the size =)
Despite all the good weather I only managed an arvo off, so it was just a few squid for me.
AmericanBen
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got a late start
which may be the reason for getting smaller fish ..not that 48cm is that small. I have been using 4/0 Mustad circle hooks.....just wondering if I should increase hook size. We still need to get together with Matt and teach me how to jig for Sambos sometime soon. Cheers, Ben
till
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Its a bit of a quandry
Its a bit of a quandry really;
big baits = big fish?
v's
small hooks can catch big fisg, big hooks only catch big fish.
I'd probably go to 6/0 for dhufish, but ask Paul G, he catches a lot more than I!
Lucky Tim
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I thought it said "beauty of
I thought it said "beauty of the week" and was expecting something else......
Gotta love WA!
Faulkner Family
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sounds like you have been
sounds like you have been having some fun.gotta be happy with fishing like that
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together