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3rd Dec
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:13 am
by UBZ
Went soft bait fishing out near Great Barrier Island. Company Christmas trip.
20.9lb Snapper. My first time in the 20pound club
Just one of about 30 snapper that we kept
I will never use smelly raw bait again.
Re: 3rd Dec
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:55 pm
by wopass
UBZ wrote:Went soft bait fishing out near Great Barrier Island. Company Christmas trip.
20.9lb Snapper. My first time in the 20pound club
Just one of about 30 snapper that we kept
I will never use smelly raw bait again.
fishing softys is good fun eh!!
i run a Diawa 6-8kg set with 6kg braid, makes for a wiked fight with the big snapps
and kings
Re: 3rd Dec
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:57 pm
by Beer_Cruiser
Very nice well done...
Re: 3rd Dec
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:10 pm
by UBZ
wopass wrote:fishing softys is good fun eh!!
i run a Diawa 6-8kg set with 6kg braid, makes for a wiked fight with the big snapps
and kings
Fun doesn't do it justice. Its like fly fishing at sea. Fully interactive, instead of just sitting and waiting for bites.
And so clean!
Re: 3rd Dec
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:00 pm
by Heath
I have 3kg set up at the moment but it gets an absolute hiding with big fish (havent landed any yet (could be my knots etc) but its a lot of fun) so can you recommend a cheap 6-8kg setup (oh yeah and some knots). I will use it in my kayak and off a mates boat so something cheap incase it gets damaged would be best I guess.
Nice fish to by the way
Re: 3rd Dec
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:41 pm
by wopass
Heath wrote:I have 3kg set up at the moment but it gets an absolute hiding with big fish (havent landed any yet (could be my knots etc) but its a lot of fun) so can you recommend a cheap 6-8kg setup (oh yeah and some knots). I will use it in my kayak and off a mates boat so something cheap incase it gets damaged would be best I guess.
Nice fish to by the way
my diawa rig was only 199 plus braid so came to 230 all up from memory,works realy well off the kayak. you should pop out for a fish one day over kenedy with us mate
the top one weighrd 18lb and the bottom 2 were over 20
allways catch something to eat
Re: 3rd Dec
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:11 am
by UBZ
We were using 6-8kg rods, amazing the abuse they can handle.
King Fish my work mate caught on the same day.
45min Fight - It took over 200m of line at one stage.
Re: 3rd Dec
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:11 pm
by Strait23
Nice fish, my brother lives on Great Barrier Island. There was a snapper comp over there a couple of weekends ago. The biggest caught was 25 pounds. Wish I was there to eat it! YUMMY!!!
Re: 3rd Dec
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:04 pm
by Heath
Goty a nice little Shimano rod and reel (6-8kg) put sdome 14lb braid on it and grabbed a tub of gulp nuck chooks. Not a bad price (wife didnt go berzerk). Tried it out at work today on our wharf (yeah thats right I was fishing while at work - Had a sport afternoon - perk of the job and there arent many of them now) but too windy and not much but little nibblers. switched to the bait rod and with a 5 oz sinker managed to get out and into the bigger nibblers. Caught 4 snapper and threw them all back. We have a rule at work anything under 35cm goes back and these were all just under (yeah if I stood on their tails and pulled maybe they would hit 20cm, with one less than 10 cm long).
Came home sunburned and empty handed but had a nice afternoon at work.