Goldie 1/8 PB snap

[Adam_G]

Headed out with Honda900 through the seaway in the dark at 5am, tried to get livies but they didn't want to play so we moved east to our first and most productive spot for the day.

To cut a long story short I sent down a 7 inch gulp which was taken by what I thought was an ok snap, untill he realised he was hooked, the next few minutes had a bit of "yep it's a good fish might need the net ...or the gaff". The gaff didn't make it on board this trip so when old man snapper got to the surface we were in trouble .

The fish got to the surface and was not too happy, he also managed to get tangled in the para anchor rope and as we tried to net him he managed to get out of the net 3 times, you can imagine the words that were spoken , we did our best to get him back in the net but it wasn't going to happen (I thought about grabing him by the mouth more than once but restrained myself), in the end I stuck my hand over the side grabed him under the gills and threw him in the boat .

So I have a new PB snapper now of 9kg on the scales, 95cm long on 20lb line on a rod I built can't get much better than that!!

We ended up with a few more snaps with Honda getting a nice 4kg model also.





Regards
Adam

[whatscracken]

Top knobbie mate with a good story to go with it. Should be a PB for a while too.

Well done.

[rosco1974]

great fish mate,well done
cheers rosco

[nickstock]

Great fish mate,

It is an awesome feeling when you smash a P.B..........but god damn that is one ugly mo fo of a fish!

Nick Stock

[carnster]

That's one ugly snap I caught a similar sized one also out from the seaway and I thought it was pretty ugly. Congrats

[Scalem]

Adam, Chris!!

Out in my boat catching nice fish in the area my PB was caught... Nice work! But I'm looking forward to getting out there again even more now, thanks to your report!

That's a very nice fish!!

Well done!

Scalem

[frankgrimes]

Monster snap mate - well done!

Mick

[honda900]

That photo truly does not do that fish justice, and geez it was ugly..


Regards
Honda.

[dreemon]

Hows the expessions ! ! one so happy , and one so grumpy ,
Great haul !

[thelump]

That photo truly does not do that fish justice, and geez it was ugly..


Regards
Honda.

So was the Snapper Towelled up by the deckie eh Honda. I'm off to 1770 this week so i will let you know how we go

[thelump]

Nice work Adam. Top fish

[Kdog]

Mate, the smile says it all!!!
Good read too.
Well done guys

[Adam_G]

Thanks guys, I think I'll be reliving that story for quite a while!!

I now have a goal to get one over 1 meter, maybe next weekend!!!

Adam

[seastorm]

Well done Adam, good to see the Goldie still has a few good fish around

[honda900]

So was the Snapper Towelled up by the deckie eh Honda. I'm off to 1770 this week so i will let you know how we go

Yeah mate, deckie made a meal of the job..

Yep be keen to hear how you get on in 1770, expecting a couple of bright red photos..

Regards
HOnda.