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DougHanning
13-07-2008, 07:31 PM
After starting own building company last year have been very busy and unfortunately not getting out much.
Thankfully everythings under control now so i got a couple of dives in the last few weeks.
Two weeks ago nailed a 25-27kg hoo on the coffee rocks and today smashed a 20kg yellowfin, a huge pb for me. Also got our 10 crayfish and a few other bits n pieces.
Pics tomorrow when take off video camera.
Thanks to you ausfish guys keeping me going through those long months off the water.
Cheers all Doug

wags on the water
13-07-2008, 07:53 PM
Good to see you back online Doug. Can't wait for your reports and pics of the monsters of the deep (and shallow).

Cheers,
Wags

Spaniard_King
13-07-2008, 08:29 PM
Yeh Doug, always loved your reports.. glad to hear your all sorted!

scoota
13-07-2008, 09:21 PM
Always look forward to your reports Doug, can't wait for the pics!!!!

You are definately on different gear to the rest of the world to be spearing those sort of fish holding your breath?????

Scoota....

DougHanning
13-07-2008, 11:08 PM
Some yellowfin pics have to still get wahoo ones.

-spiro-
14-07-2008, 12:12 AM
Good to see you back Doug
Aswell as you monsters from the deep
Watched your dvd just before Christmas well done on that too

Just_chips
14-07-2008, 08:21 AM
Did you just get the one shot into the tail of that YFT? Did he take you for a ride or did that shot slow him up a bit?

Kev

skipalong
14-07-2008, 11:19 AM
excellent mate

samson
14-07-2008, 02:53 PM
nice fish but not a yellow fin its a longtail and not a bad one.

Greg P
14-07-2008, 04:06 PM
Good to see you back on deck Doug

Didnt turn a reel on a hoo round hutchies last summer :-[:-[:-[:-[


Id call that for a Yellowfin - no doubt ::)

DougHanning
14-07-2008, 06:54 PM
Got some more pics.
Heres the story on the tuna. We get out to the coffee rocks and i was first in the water saw some rocks 20m away start to swim as i load my gun and unwind my rigline. See on my left 20-30 tuna pass 10m away midwater then they veer across in front. I dive swim like a madman to intercept cause i know with these fish you get one chance. As i get closer they speed up i just get in range as the last one in school flies past i aim and fire at his head and hit him way back in tail. They were motoring by this stage. In my haste my rigline is around one of my fins and the tune blasts off pulling my fin 1/2 off while I'm getting dragged along. I get it off and my float smashes me on the way past. I surface yell "tuna" and the guys in the boat are saying 'good one wanka' until they see my float disappearing. It took about 10mins to get him back to the boat. Needless to say that made my day, i lay on the floor of the boat with it for a few mins to get my composure then back in the water.

The wahoo story.
Had been out getting crays when 4 25-30kg wahoo came and eyeballed me while i had a little cray gun. So all i could do was watch them swim away while i chucked a tantrum and cried my way back to the boat. The whole day i couldn't stop thinking about them so i convinced the guys to stop on the way home at the same spot. I got in , shot a slatey and burled for 20mins by this stage the other boys thought it was a lost cause and swam off. I stayed for another 10mins and before i left dove to the bottom and found a big cray on the sand under a rock. I shot it and on my way back up a wahoo swims right up to me. Before i hit the surface i had the cray off the spear. i reloaded and dove back down 5m holding the screaming cray out in my other hand. He could not resist coming back for a final look and i shot him through the spine, he just rolled over and it was all over.

heres some more pics

Horse
14-07-2008, 08:43 PM
As usual, top fish, photos and story. Great to see you back in the saddle

revs57
14-07-2008, 08:57 PM
Great stuff Doug, I too have mised your updates, good to see you're back at it again, means the new venture is going O.K? Good on ya

some very nice specimines there

cheers

Rhys

1337
14-07-2008, 09:00 PM
Great fish there doug but I too would call that as a LT and not a YFT

Benno1
14-07-2008, 09:04 PM
eeeeegggseelleeeent :D

lizard bribie
16-07-2008, 05:38 AM
Wahoo Well Done Doug Great Report Cheerslizard Bribie

Frank OO
16-07-2008, 09:16 AM
Good Work Doug,

Thank you for confirming that the Wahoo are there in numbers. I have been blown away four times in four trips using Skirts with Nylon trace. I will be upgrading to Steel in the next few days.

Hope the business goes well for you.

Frank OO

DougHanning
16-07-2008, 01:07 PM
Thx all,
Yes I now realise it was a longtail not a yellowfin. Haven't caught many tuna before and one of the guys in the boat said yellowfin so I took has word for it.
Still was very nice chewing.
Frank the wahoo come in to the coffee rocks around this time but only if the water is clear and 20 deg. If is green and 18deg in close they won't be there.
If you can see coffee rock in 13-15m then thats what i would class as clear.

Frank OO
16-07-2008, 03:25 PM
Thanks Doug,

I really appreciate the information and the fantastic underwater shots.

Frank OO

rando
23-04-2009, 10:33 PM
oops did not look at the date:-[