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Darren_R
27-04-2006, 12:19 PM
Hey all, Just spent a day bottom bashing Hervy bay, got a nice mixed bag of reefies including this nice trout jigging a squid soft plastic. I caught him using a rod I had made by Garry Howard. It was made for casting for mangrove jacks. It is a Samuri blank about 10kg with a Abu 6500. Biggest fish of the day on the smallest outfit in the boat.
Truck
27-04-2006, 12:54 PM
that is a monster trout!! did you keep that one?? i have heard there is a risk of cigeteura when they get to that size......
darrmun
27-04-2006, 03:09 PM
thats a corker !!!!!!!!
Darren_R
27-04-2006, 03:41 PM
Gday Guys, I let him go thinkin its probably a big breeder. It was caught were the charter guys collect their live bait (yakkas) so it goes to show you gust dont know were and what youll get, you just have to try. I was copin a bit of stick for using soft plastic squids but the teasing stoped after the trout and hugh chinaman fish and more hits.
scuttlebutt
27-04-2006, 04:43 PM
Great trout, they pull pretty hard at that size! done well to get him on a lure

cheers,

steve
indy
27-04-2006, 06:13 PM
geez that would have been hard to let go
well done

pete...
TonyM
27-04-2006, 06:13 PM
Well done scrotty, very nice Trout!

Am heading out tommorow morning (I live in the bay) and would be grinning ear to ear if I get a snorker like that! Am just getting into the plastics and like it so far, wish I'd started earlier :)

Have seen and heard of some interesting fish at the bait grounds, although the men in grey suits don't mind taking the area over either ;D
Craigus
27-04-2006, 06:17 PM
Thats a massive trout. :o
Well Done. How much did it weigh?

Cheers
Craigus
Darren_R
27-04-2006, 06:57 PM
Gday Guys, I dont know what the weight was, I was in a bit of a hurry to get the photo and get him back in the water. The only other fish we caught at the bait grounds were livies and heaps of school mackeral. They don't do much for the bait jigs!
coxy
27-04-2006, 07:48 PM
Holy Crap!!!

That's all I can add
TIM-DONSELAAR
27-04-2006, 10:40 PM
awesome trout there scrotty [smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

cheers tim :)
Fisher4life
27-04-2006, 10:54 PM
i have caught a similar size trout, not quit as a SP whil out on a 3 day charter at fitzroy reef (out from 1770, just fished on a paternoster rig

None the less that's still one monster cod.... Congrats!!