64 dhus

64 dhus

 I bought a trailer from an old bloke up in lesmerdie, and saw this on his wall, said it was in 84,in Jurien, ended up with 64, on his mates commercial boat. Took them 3 hours to hang them up! 


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3 hours to string them up?

Wed, 2014-02-05 20:57

 3 days to fillet!! Unbelievable catch! Good to see we now have restrictions

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Restrictions?

Thu, 2014-02-06 05:36

Recs yes, Pros No.

Catches like this still go on all the time by pros up and down the coast.

Still can't work out who pays $60kg+ for fillets

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Rape and pillage back in them

Wed, 2014-02-05 21:21

Rape and pillage back in them days geezus

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OMG - worked for Angus in Greenhead

Wed, 2014-02-05 21:48

 Have not seen this photo for ages, LFBG53. That's his wife Dorothy and 2 daughters, Peta and Sarah, at the back of the boat - can't see his son, Lee, in the photo. I worked for him on the school holidays when i was a young tacker at Greenhead. He lived in Gero when i knew him and had a house at Leeman but would moor at Greenhead. Knew the family pretty well but unfortunately he died a few years back of a massive heart attack in Leeman. Taken well before his time.

Every time i fished with him he farmed the spots pretty well and usually left them biting - must have learnt from prior experience. But then i would see crayboats fill the decks up with Dhu (back when they could wetline) and get mad at him for not getting into them while they were there but he was happy just to pay the bills and feed the family. Always remembered that anything i took for lunch would disappear somehow - and learnt to pack a decoy lunch.

Good to see the photo - good memories.

 

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Farming spots

Thu, 2014-02-06 06:13

Was a common practice amongst wetliners to farm spots, you would see 5-6 fish showing up on the sounder on a lump and take 3-4 then move to the next spot leaving some behind and not stripping it completely.

When working down south we would fish deep during the day to keep out of reach of amateurs then come in shallow at night to fish the smaller areas without the risk of our spots being pinged.

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takes me back

Thu, 2014-02-06 19:52

when I was a young bloke with my dad in the sixties it wasn't unusual for us to catch a hundred plus crabs in mandurah cook them up in a copper and then dad would sell them of in the pubs on the way back to freo before the Sunday session closed ( for you young blokes that is 6pm that's when pubs closed in those days)

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60 drop nets

Thu, 2014-02-06 21:31

Mate had a licence to net in the Leschnault estuary, I used to run a 14 foot bondwood dinghy with 7.5 outboard, leave from behind the Parade hotel at 0430, up to the bays opposite Australind, work 60 drop nets, 3-4 laps equalled approx. 3 CHAFF bags full, home by 1200, cook them up and have them iced, boxed and on the railway station platform by 1500 to load on to the guards van of the Australind train to Perth for them to be in the next days fish market auction. Any crab that had either one nipper or two legs missing was sold locally or given away and to this day one or two crabs a years is nearly too many for me to eat, don't mind catching them though.

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seen a few pics like that one

Fri, 2014-02-07 19:38

seen a few pics like that one but notjust dhuies. heard stories of people going north with big chest freezers and returning with them full of reds and macks. this is why we need and have restrictions.

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