pocko79

Awesome fish boys Well done

This was about a year ago, The Family and myself went across to Western Australia for the hollys and whilst they were off snorkeling with the manta rays i managed to book myself in on a charter... Muhahaha! We were pulling in alot of sweat lip but nothing to special but towards the end of the day the skipper took us over to a special reef and lent me his small game fishing rod. I dropped to the bottom and my bait got smashed by these two suckers in a double hook up! I was using a double paternoster rig. They fought for about 25 minutes before i managed to get them to the surface and the decky hauled them on board for me. The Red Emperor was 6.5 Kgs and 93 cm The Spangled Emperor was 3.6 Kgs and 72 cm (I was thinking that might be a record) I caught them both on 25 pound braid using a mix of pillys and squid as bait *sorry about the poor photo quality, off my phone *

Hey Raiders, I went out on Pittwater yesterday with a couple of mates of mine, Rey and Pete (aka Adjustedpete) After moving around a bit with not luck we travelled past Brooklyn to the Oyster farms and had a crack there for a while. I managed to lock on to a flatty and get it right up to the side of the boat before he spat the hook... After swearing at pete for laughing at me for sometime i baited up once again and the same flatty smashed it... this time we got him 5 minutes later Pete was on to another nice flatty which we landed. No luck for the rest of the day apart from a few Jackets The Flatty was caught on a half prawn on my bass set up. Shimano Sedona 2500fb reel, Wilson Sovereign rode and 6 pd FireLine with a 10 pd Mono trace. Flatty was 465mm