Fish of a Lifetime!

[Moonlighter]

Headed south over the border into cockroach country for a fishing trip with the boys.

Well, had a blinder!

I kicked off with a 6 kg plus snapper on a SP, then followed up with this beast:

Species: Snapper
Weight: 11.0kg on the scales at the local Fishing Tackle shop
Rod: Shimano Jewel 6-10kg spin stick, 2 piece
Reel: Shimano Saragosa 4000
Line: 20lb Power-Pro braid, 30lb flourocarbon leader
Jighead: TT 1 oz, 7/0
SP: Berkley gulp 7" in Sweet n sour Chicken

A PB by a country mile, and unlikely to beat this one unless I go to Sth Aussie and chase a big one down there.

Happy!!





Heres the smaller 6kg model:

[Stewey]

Awesome fish ML. Well done.

Stewey

[rosco1974]

cracker fish mate...congrats on the new pb
cheers rosco

[OODIES]

ML

Your smile is bigger holding the smaller model mate, was the BP a hard fight?
Bloody great fish either way mate, well done.

BINGO (Dave)

[Pual44]

Good to see Moonlighter, just rewards for the effort.

Paul

[scoota]

That's a cracker ML... would have been exciting on 20lb gear!!

Happy days...

Scoota...

[Moonlighter]

Thanks guys. Was pretty pleased after the smaller one came on board, and in truth, it ran faster and longer than the big one.

But the bigg'un ran strong, I dont think it knew it was hooked for the first half of the fight.

I wasnt really 100% certain that it was a snapper until we saw it, it was just powerful, very heavy and stubborn. Took line when it wanted to, I just had to be patient and work it steadily. And hope and pray that the tax man didnt take a cut!

Cheers

ML

[Scalem]

That's all class to bring a fish home on light gear like that ML, there is no way you could unless you knew what you were doing. Well done!

Scalem

[WalrusLike]

Beautiful fish. That's a lot of muscle trying to break away.... Well done.

And good on you for taking it off the Mexicans.

[halfmanhalffish]

Looks a lot like the river entrance at Evans Head???Nice fish.

[Hossfish]

G,day ML.

Can you hear that sound? Its the sound of Hoss turning very green with envy.

Congrats on two fantastic fish.

Safe boating to all.

Regards Greg

[mattooty]

Nice fish for Evans! I recognized the bream hole in the background!
My mate was saying the stonker fish have moved in and by the looks of it haven't they ever!

[Goodoo haven]

Thats one hell of a nice fish there.

Well done mate.

[Jarrah Jack]

And good on you for taking it off the Mexicans.

We'll see about that pink handbagger.

Well done ML a very healthy fish by the looks.

[liltuffy]

Nice fish mate, looks like a spent female??

Do you remember when it was opened up.

Craig