Bay Monster!

[finding_time]

We ( My mate John and i )spent the morning chasing longtails and if there is a more frustrating pastime i'm yet to find it! We threw everything at the bloody things , slugs of all colours and sizes , 10 gram through to 50 gram and everything from 3 inch to 9 inch plastics not a look . We had great schools that were always just out of reach so 3 hours passed very quickly and irritation levels were high and to make matters worse the spotties didn't turn up either so a change of plan was called for! Now i've never been a huge fan of chasing doggies but these were desparate times so we started working the beacons , 4 hours to late to really have any success but the first beacon produced i doggie almost imediately so all wasn't lost ! Fast foward 2 hours and things are a still as the wind not another hit we were just about to make a move towards the top of Bribe when a small kingy hit the jig and was halfway to the boat when it was hammered by what we thought was a spanish but it was to deep to really tell ! John rerigged with a spanish mackeral rig( wire) and i rigged another rod with a bait jig hoping to get some sort of livie to bait up with ! well the livie was easy so on it went and down it went, we worked it back to the boat a few times when about 3 meters from the back it was hammered by a very very large barracudda and all hell erupted!!! The reel was screaming the fish was heading under the boat towards the beacon i was spinning the boat in a 360 degree turn before backing it hard around the beacon so were were not bricked fortunately it then headed towards open water and stayed there and 25 minutes later John boated this Monster!!! We would have gone for a release but it was bleading heavily from the gills ( where it was hooked ) it was totally stuffed and it also had our 80 gram raider in it's belly , so it was despached quickly , shame really as you couldn't eat the poor thing!


It weighed in at 44kg and was 205 cm's long and is by far the biggest barracudda i've ever seen. Moreton bay really does produce some monsters at times!


Ian

[frankgrimes]

Holy Faaaark!!! That is a monster!!

Awesome work....never seen one that size mate....wow!!

Mick

[Horse]

Ian, That would have to be one of the biggest fish of any species out of the Bay (not counting noahs). A top catch. Shame it took the bait deep

[TimiBoy]

Ian,

Amazing! Biggest Barracuda I've seen was less than a kilo, so yours is, let's see, 4889% larger than my best.

You bastard!

Cheers,

Tim

[WestOzDesertFisher]

That is huge mate! Top effort. I would love to see one bigger than that..

[Nico.d.R]

thats a monster great catch .

cheers

[snasman]

Tuff looking conditions aswell mate, I dont reckon Id have the energy to smile after landing a fish like that well done

[jtpython]

Throw a saddle on that sucker That is a horse
Jt

[madmackrel]

Mega fish Ian, you didnt happen to get it at the M6 baecon
Cheers MM

[bayfisher]

That's a freaking monster alright.I have only once seen cudas in the bay I was live baiting the four beacons and had 2 big cudas (and they were big but not the size) just sitting in between the legs of the becon about 2m down. They sat there for about 30 mintes but wouldnt take anything i threw at then. Anyway great catch! How heavy was the gear you got him on?

Cheers Chris

[dfox]

Poor Ian, youll be the vermin king with that one , lol ... foxy

[breamnut]

thats a cracker fish! we see em around the 1m mark at lagoona lake in currumbin but i didnt even think they got that big around here!
well done again, shoulda got the head taxidermed

[juju]

Massive......just gos to show...you never know whats down there...

[ronnien]

nice!!! & it's the biggest 1 i have seen also.

ron.

[tfish]

wow!! huge!! cheers trav