Horse snapper

[ALO]

Gday fishos,

Good friday was just that. Dogpound got to my place at 5.30 and says "dude, i forgot the sounder and gps" Cardinal Sin!!!!!! Anyways, i said we would still go except we would fish old school.

The day was looking mint, we headed out from cleveland straight for the bar. We cut a fine line after peel island and ended up running the skeg into the sand, a couple of minor adjustments and we were back on our way. We go to the bar (what there was of one) and straight out for the halfway line. We started with a couple of drifts and after a bit of trial and error, i ended up with this. A 7 kg snapper( on the bathroom scales. Got a nice parrot too and that was about it. The snapper livend me up as it took off pritty damn hard, After some quick thinking by dogpound, we managed to land him. It was awesome....

[Guest]

Wow nice snap Mate well done

[Dav0]

Awesome fish great work would be stoked to land one that big! I'm still working on it!

[wesfish]

very nice snap snap!! solid beast :woohoo:

[tugger]

wow awesome snap you got to be over the moon with that brute

[ALO]

Yeah Tugger, i can honestly say i didn't care if i caught nothing for the rest of the day. We were stoked, especially without a gps or sounder, had to revert to the oldschool without any choice.

[dassa]

that is a ripper of a snapper mate well done

[blockah]

nice fish mate, i wouldn't mind only getting 1 or 2 for the day if they were like that horse. :woohoo:

[straddiebrad]

thats a good snapp there mate,i was out there on friday crossed the bar about 5.30 ended up with a few snapper but nothing like that well-done

[ryanyoung]

Fantastic snapper there mate, great to see!

Ryan.

[dog pound]

Was the highlight of the day no dought, you forgot to mention the massive chinaman you also landed ( smartarse) lol

Who needs a sounder hey.

[eg_vtec]

monster mate. well done

[Do$tylz]

Nice one. Id love to catch a snapper at that size. Do they lose any flavour at that size?

[ellicat]

Nice one. Id love to catch a snapper at that size. Do they lose any flavour at that size?

No.

Ripper specimen ALO :woohoo: Can see how proud you are by the number of pics taken. (Just to sure )

[ALO]

forgot about the chinaman, he was a horse too lol. Always a pleasure dave..

[ALO]

mate i dont think that you can go past a pannie for the table, having said that, he taste pretty awesome. I have given a bit of him away and still have plenty left in the freezer. To be real honest, hard to go past a snapper for the table regardless of what size.

[kmcrosby78]

Awesome snapper Alo - well done. Don't supposed you measured it - I'm trying to guess roughly how long a fish that size would be? Unfortunately all my snapper (well, squire actually!!!!) are measured in centimetres and not kilograms!!!! With a PB of 43cm I have a long way to match that one!!!

[benobfo]

Thats one sweet fish dude, bet it tested the gear to the limit.

[keen_as]

Awesome fish mate.

[ALO]

15 to 24 kg wilson live fibre, Shimano tld 20 with 30 lb mono. No leader, just a floating 4 ball and a set of 6/0 mustad big guns ganged together with a pillie. Pretty basic rig man, good knots and there is my tip. Another tip is to fish as light as possible lead wise. I cant give you a gps location coz we did'nt have one..lol

Cheers bro...

[daveylad]

hey Tugger I reckon with those pictures we should be able to locate that spot....great fish well done

[bay_basher]

maybe gps/sounders are overated. So next time we go out alo, i may by accident forgot the lowrance. Maybe its good luck.....

Top snap bro, well done

[kreel]

Old skool rulz - bloody lovely fish Alo.

[Bri The Pom]

Cracking fish buddy, well done.

[Doobsy]

Cracker Snap...

[collvan]

Nice mate, well done.

[tugger]

It like many of our trips kreel who needs the electronics

Old skool rulz - bloody lovely fish Alo.

[Funfisher]

bloody beast!!

[RyanG45]

nice snapper you got there boys, wish i could get into some that big

cheers ryan

[J-DOG115]

awsm fish :woohoo: good to see some big ones still around!!!!

cheers

joel

[fishing_teen]

that is a horse mate, well done on the catch

cheers

nathan

[ALO]

Thanx for all your comments guys. Myself, baybasher and Dogpound are heading out maybe Monday. Weather seems to be looking ok so will post some more photos. Promise!....