Cobes,crays and coffee rock wahoo!

[DougHanning]

Its been a record six weeks without a dive. Have been working up in dysart on a mining housing development, so money's good but lack of boat time is definately not good. Headed out from scarborough at about 6am and went straight to a small wreck off the top of moreton and in no time had two nice cobia. The cobia hang around on the sand or around any rays as you will see in the photos. Dove some other spots but there was no current so was not many fish around, still managed a 12kg kingie and a moari cod and estuary cod. At about 10:30 went to the coffee rocks and got 10 nice size crays. Brett was filming and taking photos all day and had just put the camera away when we got our last cray. He was beside me on the surface trying to get the cray off the spear when between 25-30 wahoo ranging from 20kg up to one 30kg swam in behind us. I only had a cray gun so I screamed at my dad to chuck a 1.5m gun and rig over. By the time I hade loaded up they were cruising off so I started after them. After chasing them for about 5 mins they turned across in front of me and I had a long range shot and plugged one about 20kgs. The spear must have been resting on his spine because he did not run hard and in 5mins he was in the boat. The image of that many wahoo in 15m of water is burned in my brain, it topped off a great day to be on (or in) the water.
Cheers all Doug

[DougHanning]

wahoo again

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crays

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cobia1

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cobia2

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cobia3

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cobe school

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batfish

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crays in a crack

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my two cobes

[Lone_Wolf]

Awesome shots Doug!

[DougHanning]

last one me coming up

[Fixation]

Awesome crays there Doug. Those underwater shots are brilliant. Always love reading your reports.

Regards
Craig.

[masterdusky]

WOW awesome pics mate. keep the mcoming with ur next outings ;)

nice catch also :D:D

[jim_farrell]

Great shots mate. Must be hard to be on camera duties with that much action around.

[capt]

Great report Doug !!!!!!! Did you free dive or use tanks ? Jimmy

[Toppy]

Hey Doug great read mate, I'm not much of a spearfisherman myself but was recently on a holiday at Ascension Island where I met some hard core blokes. They were from London spearfishing club, we became friends after the 10 days there & I managed a trip out with them in there boat. It was a real eye opener watching & listening to what they talked about & techneques that they used on certain fish. One of the guys Paolo, speared a world record Big Eye Tuna during our stay in the same spot a massive Tiger shark ate a 30kg yellow fin. My hat is off to you blokes & that crazy sport, I think I'll stay inside the boat! ;)
It was a fantastic destination to visit & I'm sure you will be reading more about it soon as its fast becomming a red hot destination for Europe.
Cheers
Toppy

[DougHanning]

My pleasure fellas! ;)
Brett loves filming so he is happy to film all day and not pull the trigger. I'm happy to take my turn as I enjoy watching someone stalk a fish as much as I love doing it myself.
Jimmy- we only freedive as in QLd and most other states except WA spearfishing on tanks is illegal and in my opinion impractical anyhow.
Toppy- I know some of the blokes from that club and dived in the solomons with on of them. A mates mate was on that trip. We have dived solomons, fiji, new zealand and all up the east coast and the diving off brisbane is about as good as you can get. We get all the cooler fish species eg kingfish,jews,snapper and also all the tropical fish species eg trout,parrotfish and then the pelagics such as wahoo,tuna,sailfish,marlin,mahi mahi,cobia all of which we have speared right on our doorstep, then 5 hours drive north and we are on the GBR.
Its easy to take for granted what a diverse fishery we have right here.
Off to our local chinese restuarant tonight for a feast of crays in salt n pepper,tiawanese style, ginger and pepper, cheese and blackbean then some honey chilli moari cod all for $15 a head - its a tough life :D
cheers doug

[Slient]

[smiley=tekst-toppie.gif] You made my mouth open and loved all underwater pic's
Those Crayfish looks so easy to pick up... :o

happy fishing
Silent

[GT_warrior]

Couldnt agree with you more about our back yard, we are very lucky. :)

Spear fishing or Blue water hunting, the best way to meet and understand fish i think...

Love your work .... well done

8-)

[outsiderskip]

crays fish and rum
what a mix

pete

[pegasus]

Hi Doug,

love the report-awesome photos- sounded a great day- thankyou for the report/photos

cheers

lew

[Smailesy]

how good is that

[F1SH_BOY]

awesommmmmme pics and even betta catch well done! ;D

[wayne_cook]

great underwater shots
by the smiles u luv it
thanks for sharing
bear

[Petenoosa]

AWESOME PICTURES there mate... 8-)

[Nick_Currey]

Great pictures, and you plugged some nice fish. Good to see the Whoo are still around

NC

[Toppy]

Doug is your mate from coffs & is he the friend of Colin the Sth African who does the guiding for Ascension. I know what you mean about the variety of fish species here, we are extremely lucky!
I have included a photo of Colin in Ascension with a lure caught Black Jack Trevally.
Cheers
Toppy

[Toppy]

sorry for the side image I just can't get it to stay upright with this program.

[-spiro-]

Jeez Doug you sure do know who to find a good feed. Brilliant photo's again for us to see under the water. 8-)

[browndog]

great under water photos,you must get a serious adrenalin rush when you go under.

michael

[outwide1]

;)Thats awesome doug welldone,beats fishing with a rod mate.As for the photos keep them coming,i always try to imagine whats under us when fishing as a sounder only gives you a 1 dimensional image.I think it is alot more interesting then seeing images of reef up north as it is in area we all fish.OUTWIDE1 ;)

[seapup]

some epic pix there mate.. you clean up everytime! well done!
cheers,
ben.

[chicken]

Awesome pics and very tasty feed well done.

[devocean]

DOUG WHEN DO WE GET TO SEE THE FILM OF ALL THIS. IM HANGING OUT FOR THIS DVD BIG TIME CAN ONLY WATCH IMMERSION 1 AND 2 SO MANY TIMES WHILST WEATHER IS CRAP- HELP ME OUT

[-spiro-]

Yeah i want a copy of that dvd Doug to. I forgot that you were making one 8-) How far off are you?

[seafarer3]

Hi

Fantastic under water shots..
Good on yas...

Cheers
Scott

[Jeno]

Great stuff Doug.
What sort of water depth are you in, beautiful and clear.
stephen