3 hoo in 3 hours

[DougHanning]

Zipped out at 1pm today and Dan,Brett and myelf all managed a wahoo.
Me with mine.

[DougHanning]

underwaterpic of Dans

[DougHanning]

Mine in boat

[snappa]

bloody hell ... excitment plus .... :)



plenty of burley ...

[snappa]

bloody hell ... excitment plus .... :)



plenty ;D of burley ...

[snappa]

bloody hell ... excitment plus .... :)



plenty ;D of burley

[Darryl]

We gotcha the first time snappa ;D

You need to get that stuttering problem sorted matey. ;D ;D

[DougHanning]

Yeah 3 blocks of pillies. Server seems to be a reasonable speed tonight so here goes. We got out off straddie at about 1ish and collected a couple of parrot fish till the boats trolling left. As soon as they were gone it was as if someone flicked a switch and there was wahoo everywhere. Dan got his first as it was munching on the burley ( I was on camera duty). He put a good shot in it so it only took about 5mins to retreive. Back up for another drift, driving slowly as not to spook any others. Brett had the gun this time and once again I was stuck with the camera. Brett breathed up and was about to head to the bottom in about 25m, as he dived he saw a wahoo cruising past at about 5m so he moved in and bang it was off. It took off at warp speed and we started after his float. He shot a little high so I called Dan over to get another gun to secure it. As he was driving over I noticed a 20kg wahoo in the distance( attracted by the excitement. I gave Dan a hurry along and made sure he gave me one with a rigline. I loaded up and started scanning sure enough he did another pass at about 10m and I dove camera in one hand gun in the other. Luckily he was a bitlazy and I got within range, crack I smashed his spine and he just rolled over. We saw a few more small ones but then a couple of tinnies started trolling and they scattered. Not a bad afternoon. Good to have a nice bit of weather for a change.
Cheers all Doug

[Big_Ren]

Hi Doug

Man o man they are some great pics. I am drooling 8-) You absolutely deserve the fish you get mate. The fish you were holding above the water seems so much bigger inside the boat.

Cheers and well done again.
Paul :)

[snappa]

i tried to delete but ....

[DICER]

We can see where you put the spear in - it's as if you had two toranas put together after a crash

Nice work. Interesting that they came out to play when no trolls were about.

[uripper]

Doug your a legend - awesome underwater pic, just awesome.
Also interested in them apparently being scattered (but where to?) by trolling boats - any further thoughts on this??
how does a line fisho catch a 'hoo if not on the troll??
how did you burley the 3blocks of pillies?? container?? cubing?? on the drift??

MalM

[nuffy]

spear fishing? dont know seems to take the sport out of it.

[DougHanning]

Mal - we just don't see them when boats are trolling so I don't know what they do?
I'm sure you could burley them up to catch them.
We just throw a handfull of pillies in every few minutes while drifting.
Dicer- whenever we hit the spine of a fish they change colour at that poit.
nuffy- I still do the odd bit of fishing and trust me sometimes when snapper come on the bite it can be a bit unsporting but we still catch them for a feed. I would spear about 3-4 wahoo each year nowhere near the number that I have caught trolling in the past. I've had this conversation many times and having to hold your breath for a couple of minutes and swimming in excess of 50m on a single dive and shoot a fish with a rubber powered gun,that is what I class as a sport. What fisherman would not try a technique if they thought they would get better size fish. My boat is always open for anyone to show me how easy it is.
Cheers doug

[DICER]

Doug mate you have to be fit for that excellent catch

[outsiderskip]

hi doug
that hoo looks as big as you
nice fish great pics

cheers pete

[wessel]

"My boat is always open for anyone to show me how easy it is.
Cheers doug "


I wonder how many takers you are going to get on that one 8-)

Wessel

[nigelr]

Nuffy - give it a try sometime, might suprise you how sporting it is!
Cheers.

[damons33]

doug- having been in flippers and toting a 9'pranger in hand myself'-it only strikes me as naive to call what you do "unsporting"......it takes some kahuna's to swim with bleeding fish in hand, in known tigershark inhabited waters

nuffy- try it and see how you go, before you verbalise your negativity. what you are is called "jealous". even if you put it in a question.
:-[

so many people making ethical commentry on the activities of the more adventurous or more able.....i wonder the name of the boat they ride in? funny our society doesn't count first hand experience for much these days, i think it's a burden of governments prior, who have "over-educated" alot of people under 40years old. i hope we see a drop in white collar public sector pay rates to bring em' up to speed with their own productivity.
:-*

do we set the programme for world full of basket cases who know F.A and can tell you all about anything (googled up on the net').
wish i could catch a trout off hutchies/flinders- i was one of those trolling on sunday morning
:'(

i used to do better trolling in my little cuddy with a fourstroke engine, we were in the seafarer victory with the evinrude engine 2strk. smelly they are but a fast ride home!
i must seriously look at getting back in the water with a gun.
damon-hypocritical as ever'
;D

[vertico]

bloody nice wahoo
you caught around the sevens region

[pegasus]

Doug,

great fish- awesome photos- my hats is off to you guys

regards,

lew

[devocean]

Another excellent catch doug, still waiting for clean water up this way as the last 3 dives I had have been about 2 m vis and the 90 mm of rain we just had yesterday is not helping either, especially since a few spanish have turned up on the scene.

Its a shame people still think that spearing is like shotting fish in a barrel.
Nuffy it takes alot of work to set up your gun for a fish like that not to mention the swimming and breathhold.

Just interested to know doug at what depth and range are you taking those hoo? Also how the johnno been goin?

Dan

[kingcobe]

Good on ya. Well done.

Jay Jay