Andy-Z Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 (edited) Report before the blow hit earlier in the week. Hit the water a bit late. Plan was to get out to the 50's and get into some pearlies. Conditions were ok until about 5km from our mark where we run into a stiff SE & conditions were crap! Sounded out a few marks & was barron, so we started the slow trog back into shallower water. I noticed as we were traveling that the targa was starting to move a bit, only to find we snapped a stud off on the rocket launcher, so we stopped braced it & continued on our way. As we got close to the mark the sounder lit up with some good showings on the leading side of the ledge. We anchored only to find that there was zero current, less than zero in fact!!! Our baits were sitting right under the boat. We were about 20m from our ledge so we berlied hard. We had a few tentative touches and then the RLF20 takes off. The bail arm was flicked and the rod loaded up to the hilt. A long powerful run to start with and we thought he might not stop it. I eventually pulled it up and we called it for a kingy. This thing didn't give an inch and all through the fight would take some long powerful runs. We thought that a kingy would have bricked me, so we started to call it for a cobia, that was until those tell tale head shakes started. Finally we got colour and the bulk of this thing kept getting bigger & bigger. It finally hit the surface, where we all gasped at the size of this thing. It was slipped into the net and just as we got it over the side the net buckled and snapped!!!! Calling it a contender it was put on the lie detector and pulled the scales down to 28.5lb !!! At home just the head weighed 7lb and the dead weight of the fish bottomed our drag measuring scales out & they go up to 20lb! It was a monster! Edited July 26, 2008 by Andy_Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riley93 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 top fish mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr magoo Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 mate that is a MONSTER well done on a fish of a lifetime congrats cheers arman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 what area were u fishing mate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbitt Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 YEAH BABY !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickman Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 awsome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robeebee Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 don't you hate when your targeting a certain species and all you get are reddies seriously top fish mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodgey Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Superb fish mate .... that's GOLD! Hodgey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Cam Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Super stonker snapper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray R Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Great fish Andy_z those big reds really give you a work out...Cheers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VA911 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Thumper!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOTM.... hands down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alasdair Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Nice, very, very nice well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve07 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 That's a thumper mate,very well done on catching a snapper like that. Its a fish you will never forget!! cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutcho1 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Now that is a FISH!!! Congrats, Hutcho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 WOW. Top effort. Cheers Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abiasin Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 unreal red there mate, most of us only dream of getting one that size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Great Red. That is a true bruiser, Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR@ZY OS@M@ Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 an abslolute dream of a red to have up your sleeve.now thats one hell of a mother red ,well done mate. must have surely got the blood pumping as soon as you saw colour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scon Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 what a cracker red , well done. was it caught off Sydney? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamtime Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Gotta love those lips! Striking resemblance to John Howard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightstalker Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Great red mate, was it caught deep - it has more of the SA look about it than the chunky ones we've been getting out of shallow water. Wish i lived on the Goldy with the choices you blokes have out wide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTROJAN Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 NICE, MAN AM I JEALOUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naddy Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 OLD MY GOD!!!! lol that is a hugeeeeeeeeEE dinosaur! *hats off* congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-Z Posted August 5, 2008 Author Share Posted August 5, 2008 Not too far wide. Most of our fishing is done within 5km of the shore. Great red mate, was it caught deep - it has more of the SA look about it than the chunky ones we've been getting out of shallow water. Wish i lived on the Goldy with the choices you blokes have out wide. Off the Gold Coast what area were u fishing mate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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