Boat fishing for dhuies
Submitted by Rodrat on Mon, 2008-06-09 19:55
Hi All
When boat fishing for dhuies do you stand more of a chance anchoring and burleying or doing drifts?
Have had good days on a couple of spots with really good ground and caught allsorts of fish like black ass and harli's
as well as pinkys and sarget bakers. But have been suprised that no dhuies of any size have come up.
We were anchored both times.
Thanks
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I prefer a drift
But you can catch them either way if they are there.
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MMMMM
I'm sure we are on the right ground with catching
harli's and black ass and sarget bakers.
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Bigger Dhuies
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Thanks Andy
I think next time i get out i will try some drifts first before i anchor up.
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drift
im no expert but we have always caught dhus on a drift ,as long as its not too fast.you also cover more ground if there is a series of reefy areas around . good luck
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Speed
How fast is to fast for a drift? How many knots?
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Agree Drift
Yet to catch a Dhui down here Rod, but in Perth and Jurien, certainly drifting accounted for more dhui's. Certainly cover more ground and I don't think it hurts to have your bait moving past a Dhui's nose. Also, less weight is best - even better if you can float it down. So tou want the slowest drift possible IMO. Besides, no fun fishing with a house brick. :)
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drifting!
Dhufish dont live around most grounds like many other species so whilst on anchor is good it's not a way to pin point Dhufish unless you have a consistent lump then the anchoring would be more effective.
Dhufish move around however, more than what ppl think so drifting is my prefered. They love the slow moving bait as mentioned and a good sea anchor is the key!
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Agreed Ryan! Good point!
Sea Anchor - a very good point. Don't know if everyone else feels this way, or has had the same experience, but when we bought our boat and looked at Sea Anchors (Drogues), we purchased one 'recommended' for our boat length. Due to a subsequent mishap (thanks bro! - long story), we needed a replacement. In a rare moment of repentance, my bro made one - about 50% bigger with an adjustable tail opening - made a huge difference. Meant we could drift slower in stronger winds.
The replacement one was much closer to the mark as to the drift speed we wanted and suitability for our boat length.
It's not just the length of your boat - it's what (and how much) wind obstacles (biminis/targas etc) you have too.
As I said before, nothing worse that a super fast drift and ten tons of lead.
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Big Bait High? Everyone?
when fishing with a double dropper paternosta, I've always put my bigger bait on the bottom dropper.
What about other guys?
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heavy!
I use what ever size sinker that'll hold me to the bottom and if that means 8oz then so be it. The lighter the sinker the better the feel and weary fish can be put off by too much heavy weight imo. I used to be a heavy sinker person but my style of fishing has changed over the years and so does the need to discect things more!
Dreamy, if i'm chasing KG's etc on my bottom patternoster rig i'll use a small bait on the bottom and the 2 up from that bigger. If not, i'll put 3 big baits as i do well on the bottom hook with big fish, no right or wrong.....just what works for individual ppl!
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Cheers Ryan .... true
Yup, I recall your comment that you tend to move away from 'conventional' bottom fishing preferring to drift biat, with a small sinker if necessary. I've used this more and more and it's certainly accounted for both fish that are moving up and down and at different spots in the water column and for older (smarter) fish that are, of course, bigger.
As you say Ryan, there's no right or wrong, just what works.
To quote one of your favourite sayings
, 'Mix it up'! 
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