shellharbour snapper

[John C]

Fished off shellharbour sunday afternoon same spot we got the 4.5kg snapper the week before got close to the spot at 230 probaly 300m off the mark and started berly and couldnt stop getting rat kings for and hour so moved and landed right on our mark this time and it was about 4pm fished for an hour and a half and just had a few small runs nothing special but as soon as the sun went down 530pm bang all three rods screamed off at the same time! i grabbed my twin power as the line was peeling off and left my other rod which lost the fish and my dad was on but got snapped off but i still had mine on the twin power and i was in for a Battle! screaming runs massive head shakes 25min had gone by and i knew this was a serious snapper as i was using 20lb braid and 30lb leader and i was struggling to get him up but then finally some colour and and its a huge snapper would have went 8kg easy and then one more run and gone.................... after a 35min battle felt like crying but the fished deserved his freedom......

[Zdenk01]

Unlucky mate, there is nothing like that feeling when you see colour

you starting getting excited then something lets go.

Atleast you know the spot, You will get that magic fish.

cheers

zed

[Spooooled]

Better luck next time mate

[keenas]

You want to tighten your drag up a little more next time

Seems a bit to long with the gear you are using. good luck

[John C]

Thanks guys, Yeah i agree about the drag it was still tight but i think i could have went tighter and thats why i lost him i think. i reakon he was slowly wearing away my trace as i dont use circle hooks. TRUST ME ive been going over it in my head 100 times. thanks.

[aeb870]

Worst thing about the one that got away, keeps me up at night some times..

[J Hooked]

Bad luck mate and good luck for next time! These losses make us more determined to go out and do it again. And when we do land that big fish!

[billseeker]

Unlucky black magic sounded like a great fish at Xmas time I caught this on 30pd braid and 30pd fluorocarbon using a Trinidad 16 and a daiwa tunny rod great outfit fishing in 35m of water took me bout 5mins to knock this fish over it weighed 7.9kg and went 93cms my best snapper ever but I spouse every fish cam fight different good luck on your next outing anyway cheers Luke

[Sammie]

thats a nice snapper billseeker... where did u catch it?

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[Pongrass18ft]

Great going guys sounds like a hotspot for xl snapper.

Can,t wait to see the up coming posts from there in the coming months.

Looks like a pb will be coming soon

Chris.

[billseeker]

Hey lovetofish I caught it at sth west rocks it made my Xmas holidays so much that I got it fiberglass moulded on my wall and they still are pretty good on the chew as well