104 cm pink off hillarys yesterday
Submitted by Ryan C on Mon, 2010-07-19 16:17
Icaught this 104 cm snapper on the 3 mile off Scarborough yesterday, it took some stopping in 10 m of water on my stella 4000 and 20lb saltiga braid, we released 4 other pinks around 5/6 kg and caught a heap of 1.5/2.5 kg skippy on plastics and 6 lb braid it was a top day!!!
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A couple of great fish there Ryan
That skippy would have gone hard on that gear.
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Well done Ryan
Excellent inshore fishing there.
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Ryan C
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they are hard to lift when
they are hard to lift when they circle near the boat on light 1/3 kg rods thats for sure!!! cheers
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Thats a crackin pinky
Thats a crackin pinky
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Conditions
Well done, Nice fish Ryan, those skippy fight well above their weight......
Conditions on the water look pretty good in the photo, was it is good as it looks ?
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Now that is a top snapper
Now that is a top snapper well done ,Im still looking for one that size.
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104 cm pink
the conditions were sweet all day we didn't get out till 10 am ,we went on Saturday as well and Sunday was a whole lot nicer!!!( we did get 4 Tuna on Saturday though) so it wasn't too bad.
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Ripper Snapper!!
That snapper is a beauty!! Well done.
Ryan C
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104 cm pink
it's my biggest ever and it was a miracle to land it where i did , i have lost many,many
huge pinks there before , the reef has a little pinnacle on it that they slice you off on so its lock up and hold on .
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as a matter of interest
that pink had a 12/14/0 mustad circle and about 10 cm of 120/150lb mono hanging out of it's mouth , the hook was pretty rusted so he must have been lucky to escape someone else before.
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well done m8 congrats on you
well done m8 congrats on you catch
Ryan C
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104 cm pink
cheers Mike
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stella day
nice size snapper
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Top effort
Great fishing Ryan, well done.
Did you fish any particular stage of the tide? ie. rising to high.
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Great Pink
Horse of a Metro waters fish. Stella is quality, I'm sure that helped.
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I am green with.....pride...
Go the big skips they are like a blue with Brock Larson for the ufc fans. Helluva Pink as well, that is a catch to be proud of.
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top effort in stopping a
top effort in stopping a pinkie like that one. a fish that anyone would be proud of. some nice size skippy as well.congrats
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Well done, nice fish and
Well done, nice fish and nice condition.
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Well done Ryan
Now thats a Keeper!. Well done.
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great fish !
great fish skippy fight good for there size !
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And what a nice looking pink
Well done, from the look of it it's from a NZ gene pool over here trying to improve the looks of your Oz stock.
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bloody AWESOME mate, that
bloody AWESOME mate, that pinkie is a horse!
got to love those big skipies as well, they fight like hell in shallow water.
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Very nice fish
and what a great day to do it. Flat sea's big fish that's about as good as it gets.
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104cm pink
cheers fellas
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that must be my snapper
that must be my snapper though cause i remember losing a snapper in that exact place about a week ago. i was using circle hooks with 120lb trace just send the fillets over hahaha. only joking good fish on light tackle. did u get the pinks on plastics aswell?
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104cm pink
i got the pink on the old faithfull unweighted muloie but lost another couple of stonkers on the light gear and flickbaits.
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the old 3 Mile strikes
the old 3 Mile strikes again.
Super effort that.