With all our jigging pictures, every efort is taken to get the fish released alive. We believe we have an 90% success rate releasing doggies back to the water in a healthy condition. We caught a lot of doggies out in the Coral Sea, but only photographed the really big ones as a general rule. We preferred to not get the smaller sub 40kg fish out of the water at all as this aids in release.

The fish must be out of the water no longer than 30 seconds to give them a chance, and they are all swum prior to release. If this is done and the deck hose kept in their mouth most fish do swim of quite strongly. The other interesting point was that we only had about 5 doggies in the whole month in the Coral Sea eaten by sharks, which was very pleasing.

Some fish are released with the aid of a downrigger to help with decompression

An estimated 95 kg Dogtooth caught jigging Frederick Reef 2005

A 55kg doggie taken by Ek from Thailand jigging Kenn reef 2005

The head of an 80kg doggie.

  

A dogtooth of around 40kgs from Wreck reef. Sept 2005 

Brendon with a 26kg wahoo from Fraser Island. Caught Nov 01

Jai from Thailand with a 40kg ish GT taken jigging at Kenn Reef

This doggie died and was weighed at 60kgs. Caught Frederick Reef Nov 2005

  

A massive amberjack of 1.62m long, taken by Lynne Baxter deep jigging off Fraser. April 04

Triple hookup on big red bass on jigs at Kenn reef Dec 2005

Two fish on the same jig. A big Red Bass and Purple Cod ate the same jig!!

  

Jai with a smallish coral trout jigged up at Kenn reef

A black Trevally taken on a Jig at Kenn Reef

Ben Thrower with a solid Coral Trout taken jigging at Kenn reef 2005

  

Josh with a 30kg AJ taken deep jigging at Fraser Feb 04.

A smaller doggie taken on the jig at Frederick Reef.

Ek going hard on a 50kg doggie

  

A 70kg + doggie sharked right at the back of the boat for EK. He seems to make a habit of this. His AJ was also sharked at Fraser Island in 2004 with us!!.

Jai with a broken rod and the Doggie that did it to him.

Jai with a small Almaco Jack jigged up at Kenn Reef.

EK with an amberjack which may have been around 40kg if the sharks had left it alone. April 04.

  

The boys from Thailand putting a Tenaq jig rod to the test on a big Amberjack. April 04

Damon with a solid 30kg+ AJ from Fraser April 04

Aaron Concord with a respectable 26kg AJ from

  

Jose Wejebe from the Spanish Fly TV show with a beautiful GT jigged up at Kenn Reef

Jose Wejebe with a nice doggie jigged up at Kenn reef

Ek with a beautiful Purple Cod taken on the jig at Kenn Reef Dec 2005

  

Jigging isn't all Hard Work. Not when you're connected to a 50kg doggie anyway!!