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DougHanning
26-10-2005, 02:25 PM
Took a relative from NZ up to 1770 fri,sat and sun. Had great weather dived lamont,fitzroy,boult,outer wides and some wrecks. Got plenty of 3-4kg trout, 3 spanish a 11kg tusky and some parrotfish. It was the first time I had dived the outer wides and it was quite a productive spot. Needless to say my cousin was blown away. Highlights were fending off some pesky whalers at the outers and diving amongst huge schools of cobia,trevelly,barracudas,mackeral and sharks over some of the wrecks in 30-40m. Also took some crays and a few squid off the reef. Will post some pics when I get camera back off a mate. Cheers Doug.

JB
26-10-2005, 02:44 PM
Dam that sounds awesome doug, cant wait to see the pics. You blokes are nuts swiming around there with noahs about. Dont u feel like a dangling carrot sometimes ?? I'd be paranoid as .. lol.

Jas

Mick
26-10-2005, 05:02 PM
I just read Mad Dog Mick's comments in the feeding frenzy 1770 post about sinking a boat with sharks around and looked at Tony's picture of the sharks teeth marks on the outboard, then come here to read that Doug has been happily frolicking around with local noahs. What a crack up!

Nice going mate, those whalers are nuts eh? The last couple I saw were trying to get my trout off the spear which was in a cave. I saw them thrashing around then suddenly leave with something in the biggest ones mouth. I thought they had the trout but it was a piece of coral. Then they were all fighting over the piece of rock. Sh!t it was funny.

kitty_cat
26-10-2005, 05:18 PM
mad
yous guys have brassies ithought of having a look under there a couple of weeks ago but was to shit scared

DougHanning
26-10-2005, 05:34 PM
Will get photos tomorrow. Jb I try to keep that carrot tucked in the wettie! Mick, they love a bit of coral tasting, there were a lot around. After losing three and having to retie my rig we put them straight in the boat. Sharks are bullies, you just have to give them a good poke with a sharp spear and they back off. If any of you guys want to give it a go I'd be only to happy to come out and show you the ropes. I love line fishing as well but diving gets the adrenaline pumping. Those sharks were around the coast and we were out 60-70k's on the reef, but if I had of known we would have been in amongst the bait balls filming and diving, we aim to do this next time they appear off Straddie. They have more than enough food around. Doug

DALEPRICE
26-10-2005, 05:39 PM
cant wait ti see the photos dug.
11kg parrot :o
top report mate
dale

Mick
27-10-2005, 06:46 AM
Doug, you don't have to show me the ropes, but you can take me with you to the reef. When is the next magazine out, must be soon?

By the way mate, i read your recent story about diving inside Morton and picked up something you said about water vis being better at low tide inside the Bay.

The water is filthy in my area at the moment, so i took your advise and dived the low tide. Wow, 3 foot visability to 25 foot vis in only a few hours and then back to 3 foot vis again, not long after low tide.

Thanks mate, i had a window of opportunity for only a couple of hours which helped land 3 trout and 2 crays.

Cheers,

Mick

DougHanning
27-10-2005, 08:47 PM
Okay got the camera back. Pic1 me with a 15kg spanish

DougHanning
27-10-2005, 08:48 PM
Pic2 me with 2 trout from the outer wides about 22m

DougHanning
27-10-2005, 08:50 PM
Pic3 My brother dan with 2 more

DougHanning
27-10-2005, 08:51 PM
Pic3 mate skinman with corker 11kg tusky

DougHanning
27-10-2005, 08:53 PM
Pic 5 Me dad with 2 of the crays

perko
27-10-2005, 08:53 PM
Think we drove past you at the Outers Saturday morning about 7-8am. Were you in a stabi. We were in a 6.5 Sailfish. Got some good fish just out a bit further from where you were diving. what depths you diving? did you dive the barcoola wreck? Tony.

DougHanning
27-10-2005, 08:54 PM
Pic 6 us on the boat

DougHanning
27-10-2005, 08:56 PM
Pic 7 at home with a few hard hours ahead.

DougHanning
27-10-2005, 09:01 PM
Tony that was us. We were diving in about 22-24m. Saw lots of trout from 3-6kg. We went to the lump before fitzroy and fitzroy itself later that day. We never got around to getting to the barcoola but dived the cetecea and got more spanish there. That place is alive with big fish! Great weather hey. Had not been up to 1770 for almost a year. So it was great to be back.

Jeremy87
27-10-2005, 09:04 PM
Tough luck, you guys will be eating nothing but trout for the next few months.

Kiktz
27-10-2005, 09:23 PM
Great selection there guys look like
all good quality fish

trout3030
27-10-2005, 10:45 PM
Looks like you might have to start swimming for your trout perko. The more you can get the better.

perko
28-10-2005, 07:24 AM
You can have your trout stuie. Rather eat an iodine.

Scott15
28-10-2005, 07:36 AM
awsome report and bloody good fish!!!

bugman
28-10-2005, 08:12 AM
Doug,

Nice work. Some guys from Diveoz were up there at the same time. They, like you, reported an amazing amount of fish life on all the wrecks. Sound like everything is pretty thick at the moment.

I still can't beleive you guys dive down to 22-25m. I would use half my tank to get down that far ;D ;D

Bloody mad I tells ya !!!! Where's my scuba?

Bugman

snappa
28-10-2005, 11:09 AM
:-X

Sportfish_5
28-10-2005, 01:55 PM
Will get photos tomorrow. Jb I try to keep that carrot tucked in the wettie!


LMAO ;D ;D ;D ;D

No free diving and this is definitley a carrot free pic forum ::)

Nice mack :P

Were you guys diving N/E corner of Flinders couple of weeks ago ?

Cheers

Greg

devocean
28-10-2005, 05:02 PM
Awesome look forward to reading the article doug, you guys get all those on rabis?

DougHanning
28-10-2005, 06:22 PM
It could have been. Was it a tuesday? I just completed an open water snorkeling coaching course and took the guys who ran the course out for a snorkel and spear. That was a pearler of a day as well. Got a nice coro and a big blunthead parrot. Lost a 25-30kg wahoo at brennans shoal, had him on for about 15 mins, it was heartbreaking. Saw a school of about 10 hoo's all over 20k's. Devocean- we were using 1.2m rabbi's as trout are pretty easy to spear and a smaller gun is easier around coral and bommies. Here's a pic of the two fish I got a few weeks back. Cheers all