queensland Dhess Cracked It!!!!

[crazywalrus]

Head out with @dhess again on Monday, hunting to bag out on some bigger specimens than last week.  We headed out and grabbed some Live Bait in close which were biting hard with some toothy critters amongst them.  

We then punched out to the FAD to try and get amongst some Dollies. With plans to put 10 in the boat and our expectations were high, we were quickly deflated.  We found a school of good-sized 1.1 to 1.2m Dollies, but for the life of me, we could not get them excited. They were at the back of the boat, we where cubing, dropping livies on their nose, throwing poppers, plastics, cubed pillies, and everything in the tackle bag with only a brief follow on a popper.  Very disappointed as the size would have been superb. 

We fished some marks nearby, and this is where I started my day "stuck in the nursery", pulling up the smallest Pearlies I have ever seen. If they where legal I would have bagged five times over as they were biting hard.  Needing a change, we head in a little closer, and then I started catching undersized bloody Snapper instead.  We tried this for an hour and then headed out wider.  

I decided to hit the mark on its own on the way, and 10 seconds later wack DHess was on, secretly I was not happy and wished I had got my pillie in 10 seconds earlier.  I solid fight ensued, and Dom and I were calling it for a good-sized AJ however it comes up Red. 90cm of beautiful Snapper.   OMFG, Dhess was lucky. I grab his net after taking mine out in the morning, I net the fish, and it fails just when Dom grabs the frame luckily.  The Beast is on board only to have him bite through the 100lb leader on the snell. It could have been a very different outcome. 

Dom managed some nice sized Bonito here; I caught a Gold Spot which we later reidentified as a Fox fish, either way, it was delicious.  However, once again, I was destined to catch undersized pearlies and Snapper.  In a desperate attempt to catch something legal, we made the call to head out deeper, and this is where we made a fatal mistake. We should have sounded around that depth and tried to catch some more quality fish, but we left fish to find fish. hmmmm 

We got out deep, and the current died, we were drifting at .2knots to nothing and could not raise a fish, and there were absolutely no shows. Worked this line and our marks for another 6 km but still nothing.  So we head to the 33s near the bar until sundown. However, the current was hauling and even with the drogue we where drifting at 1.5knots making float lining pretty much impossible. 

A great day out and we went home with something to eat thanks to Dhess. 

## also eomthign to note the Bonito cared for correctly and trimmed was superb grilled. 

On another note. 

i do not like to waste anything from an animal I kill to eat.  I will recover as much meat as I can, this time removing the wings and cheeks on the large snapper. I turn the frames and heads into stock and freeze it to use in cooking.  We pressure cook what is left and feed it to the chooks safely. The bones end up soft like in a Salmon can.  

Images 

Fish Stock in smaller sizes 

Dhess the bastard

the esky half way through the day 

Bonito sashimi 

The Whales that came to visit 

the chook lovin the bones and meat 

Me quick gutting fish in prep for the stock pot. 

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey crazywalrus (and maybe dhess)

Nice session. That is a great snapper... You wouldn't mind me asking if dhess is a Southsider would you?  

Good fish, and some very tasty meals there.

Cheers Hamish

[crazywalrus]

1 hour ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hey crazywalrus (and maybe dhess)

Nice session. That is a great snapper... You wouldn't mind me asking if dhess is a Southsider would you?  

Good fish, and some very tasty meals there.

Cheers Hamish

Thanks. No DHess lived on the Northside like do 

[Do$tylz]

Oh man - so good to see some old names pop up

How are you Ted? Great to see Dom is still out and about as well.

Big trip to do man. Who's  beast rig is that?

[crazywalrus]

51 minutes ago, Do$tylz said:

Oh man - so good to see some old names pop up

How are you Ted? Great to see Dom is still out and about as well.

Big trip to do man. Who's  beast rig is that?

Hey Henry, did not expect to see you still on here. I am good, great to back on the water after a long time away.  Dom and I decided to put the best parts of our boats together am his Hull and my motor. We spent over a month working up the shell and setting it up. This is the 4th trio now and it is great. Stable and awesome on fuel.  How have you been going? I was only talking about you the other day. 

[Brodie_S]

Noice snapper bet he put up a decent fight shame about Little perch though

[Do$tylz]

17 minutes ago, crazywalrus said:

Hey Henry, did not expect to see you still on here. I am good, great to back on the water after a long time away.  Dom and I decided to put the best parts of our boats together am his Hull and my motor. We spent over a month working up the shell and setting it up. This is the 4th trio now and it is great. Stable and awesome on fuel.  How have you been going? I was only talking about you the other day. 

yeh mate. I only started coming back in the last month or so. Kids are old enough for me to now be able to get out for a fish. I think the big change was actually the mrs now finding a hobby and understanding and having a perspective of the obsession I had with my hobby of fishing

But happy to be back and slowly contributing again. I think this whole work from home thing is also letting me get on AFO more too. 4 screens on my computer desk with 1 committed to AFO. Just like the old days

I just caught up with Rob Searing and we had a good chat about some of the old names and it's so great to see and hear of so many fishing circles that formed because of BFO are still getting around and catching up.

Great idea to combine your boats. Yeah, last I recall you had a terrible situation with your rig and the builder selling the business so wouldn't fix?

[ellicat]

Well done, Dom. That's a ripper !

It's been tough fishing this week so you guys did well.

[Old Scaley]

What a great snapper. I also enjoyed the little Jamie Oliver vid at the end, Ted. 

[ellicat]

5 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

What a great snapper. I also enjoyed the little Jamie Oliver vid at the end, Ted. 

The Naked Chef ?!?! Don't give him ideas. haha

[tugger]

What a ripper I love the runs  and head thumps uou get from a big snapper like that.

[Leosonfire]

Fn cracker snaps! Very jealous well played 

[kmcrosby78]

Great snapper there @dhess and good to see you pair out on the old briney @crazywalrus. Shame the dollies weren't in the mood. I wondered whose boat you were out in - what is the boat and what motor out of interest? Oh and thanks for the effort to make the video - great work  

[jon]

Wow what a cracking snapper Ted, or dom I should say looks like a quality day out on the water well done lads 

[crazywalrus]

1 hour ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Great snapper there @dhess and good to see you pair out on the old briney @crazywalrus. Shame the dollies weren't in the mood. I wondered whose boat you were out in - what is the boat and what motor out of interest? Oh and thanks for the effort to make the video - great work  

The hull is a Stessl Bluewater 5.5m and s Suzuki 90 

[crazywalrus]

3 hours ago, ellicat said:

The Naked Chef ?!?! Don't give him ideas. haha

CAn you come around and film me? 

 

5 hours ago, Do$tylz said:

yeh mate. I only started coming back in the last month or so. Kids are old enough for me to now be able to get out for a fish. I think the big change was actually the mrs now finding a hobby and understanding and having a perspective of the obsession I had with my hobby of fishing

But happy to be back and slowly contributing again. I think this whole work from home thing is also letting me get on AFO more too. 4 screens on my computer desk with 1 committed to AFO. Just like the old days

I just caught up with Rob Searing and we had a good chat about some of the old names and it's so great to see and hear of so many fishing circles that formed because of BFO are still getting around and catching up.

Great idea to combine your boats. Yeah, last I recall you had a terrible situation with your rig and the builder selling the business so wouldn't fix?

Yeah my hull is a long way or never back o the water 

[kmcrosby78]

1 minute ago, crazywalrus said:

The hull is a Stessl Bluewater 5.5m and s Suzuki 90 

What year is the Suzuki Ted? Reason for asking is I had a problem with my DF90 that was a Suzuki problem in their 90-149hp engines (from memory) for at least 5 years.