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Ok guys. I was wondering what everyone's biggest fish on light gear is. Now light gear would be relevant to the fish caught, for example a 35cm bream on 12 pound line wouldn't be considered light but a 1 metre Jew on the same line would. Ill go first: a 60cm Australian salmon on 4 pound braid with 10 pound fc leader. Lot of fun andreally made me determined to fish as light as possible. Look forward to hearing everybody else's.

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4lb line 6lb trace 60cm kingfish 72cm salmon 86cm flathead alot of these species around this size whatever wants to take a litle 3inch minnow

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Wow, some amazing catches here. Mine wasn't as epic but very memorable.

My First kingfish was 75cm on 12lb mono line and 12lb mono leader.

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260.6 kg tiger shark on 6 kg

13.0 kg spanish mackerel on 3 kg

11.0 kg longtail tuna on 3 kg

Gotta love sportsfishing!!!!

Cheers,

Singers

Hats off to that...

My most memorable would have to be an 8.2kg swampy on 4lb. I must have got smoked 10 times before i fanally landed one. I reckon some of the ones that did me would have been over 10kg. 4lb, logs and weed, you do the math.. For an obnoxious pest their pretty bloody good fun.

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2lb Gladiato r Braid sienna 1000 reel pioneer 4feet 2-4kg rod 60cm kingfish but i was using a 12lb leader.

2LB Gladiato r Braid, 6lb mono caught 65 cm travelly 10 min fight at tuncurry.

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97cm flathead on 6lb braid, 6lb leader. Taken from the noosa river 5 years ago! Took 15mins

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I caught a 40cm bonito on one of those light 6 hook bait rigs while fishing for herring off the breakwall at SWR.

I also managed a 1m gummy on 6lb mono off South Cronulla years ago. It took about 20min to get to the boat.

Cheers

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Personally a real feat 5lb 8 ounce pig on Sportex 663 (sloppy 12ft luderick stick from the 60's) Avon royal mk3 loaded with 10lb dango wax and 6lb maxima ultragreen leader. took a good 5 yo 10 mins to alnd and a lot of heart stopping moments, same set up and the pig was followed up by a 4lb 6 ounce luderick! Taken off Pig rock at Kurnell.

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My best was a 10.0 kg jew on 1 kg pretest mono (it actually had a breaking strain of 925 grams). :insane:

I was catching yakkas for bait using a single no 12 long shank hook when my bait got absolutely smashed by the jew. Took almost 2 hours to land.

Since then I have not been jewie fishing because I know that there is no way I will ever beat that again :074:

Evets

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My best was a 10.0 kg jew on 1 kg pretest mono (it actually had a breaking strain of 925 grams). :insane:

I was catching yakkas for bait using a single no 12 long shank hook when my bait got absolutely smashed by the jew. Took almost 2 hours to land.

Since then I have not been jewie fishing because I know that there is no way I will ever beat that again :074:

Evets

that is heart in the mouth fishing lol :thumbup:

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My son 11 y/o 95cm Flatty 5kg on 4lb mono with no trace and 1/0 hook last July.

Me 30lb snapper 6lb braid, 20lb trace single 9/0 gamagatsu last Sept.

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A 31 pound Sydney cobia on 8 pound Maxima mono (pre braid days) and then recently a 93cm Sydney king on 10kg braid in three fathoms of water. Both fish, a couple of decades apart, ate home made hair jigs, which upped the joy.

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i usually over rig for what im catching caught a salmon on monday 48cm 2-4kg rod penn 260 slammer reel (smallest slammer reel) great fight took about 5mins to land :biggrin2:

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80cm king 6lb braid 10lb leader

25kg king 15kg mono 60lb leader

4kg groper & 3.5kg pigs 10lb main blackfish outfit

100kg marlin 15kg mono 80lb leader

92cm flatty 6lb mono

few +15kg longtails on 8kg mono land based & 6kg boat based

stack of +10lb salmon n bonnies on 4lb braid

80cm tailor 6lb braid

6kg mowong 6lb mono

The list goes on.... to many to name, i always fish light were i can.

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63cm barra on 10lb braid and 20lb leader (leader doesnt sound light but when its up against barra it sure seems light :074: )

theres some damn good catches on here

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My first Jewfish on plastics would have been my best.

6lb braid and alb leader fishing for bream in the lane cove river.

NOt sure how big??

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Wow, many amazing catches and not sure I can compare, but my most memorable catch was off the rocks at South Avoca many years ago - a 34lb Kingfish on 15 lb line on an old Seascape - and those who can remember the Seascapes and their delicate pinion gears and somewhat variable star-drags, well that was an achievement, for me anyway!

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6'6" 20 year old Butterworth fmt72l (extended 6")okuma eb20 with 4 kg mono. Bloodworm for bait, fishing for bream for breakfast off umina beach.

23kg Jew! Look to the left!!!

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