Amazing / Bizarre Fish Photos and Stories

 Was just doing a bit of work on our new website (still under construction) and came across a few photos I had forgot about.

 Below is a photo of a Goldband that as far as we can tell must of broken its back early in its life and still managed to survive and grow to quite a good size. Really quite amazing that with all the competion down there fish like this can survive and live long enough to get that big and then be unlucky enough to be caught by us.

We often catch fish that have had these type of things wrong with them, or have truly amazing thing that you would not believe unless you see, just dont allways think to get a photo of them. We recently had a punter drop their rod over the side only to have another person pull it up an hour later (with 4 fish, double header on his and double on the lost rod!) in 100+M of water. Also had a Rosy Jobfish with an old hole through it (billfish maybe) that you could just about poke your finger through but was doing just fine.

Anyway this got me thinking that there must be plenty of these type of captures stories out there that would be a bit of fun to read. So if you have a amazing story or photos of a bizarre capture post it up and I look forward to someone bettering mine. I know this type of post may have been up before, but I'm sure there are plenty of recent or forgotten stories. It's got to be a better read than grown men having a school yard whinge at each other or endless speculation over dead fish (at least untill we find the true cause of it). Got to have something to entertain me now the Block is over?

 

 

 

 

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Caught this black jew in

Thu, 2015-11-26 07:11

Caught this black jew in Hedland harbour a few years ago.

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He's hung a bit lower than

Thu, 2015-11-26 11:53

He's hung a bit lower than the rest!

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no photo's to prove but had a

Thu, 2015-11-26 07:51

no photo's to prove but had a very windy day in coral bay so just wanted to get couple of fish for dinner. Headed out the south passage (about 500m out the passage and another 500m north.) Brother didn't even have his rod on board so grabbed one of the handlines.....this was quite a few years ago.

hooks up a sail and boats it on handline ..mono.

only small but made the day.

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Simultaneous double hook up of stripe marlin on jig in 160 m..

Thu, 2015-11-26 09:46

 Double hook up of stripes , we were jigging about 5 ms away from one another on the boat...he had a instant hook up that raced up towards the surface, mine was a a horozontial side way pull fr the first 5 mins down deep till it came racing to the surface... landed 1 from 2.

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Similar experience with the stripes

Thu, 2015-11-26 10:13

Lucky enough to have a simultaneous quadruple hook-up of stripes out the back of Rottnest the season before last, landed 3 from 4 but would have been interesting if we'd had a fourth person on the boat! Seems they like to hunt in small groups.

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Ive never taken a photo of

Thu, 2015-11-26 09:52

Ive never taken a photo of them but ive lost count of the number of pinkies ive caught off cape nat with golfballish sized calcification lumps in their spine.

They make filleting a pain in the ass!

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 Funny that. Nearly every

Tue, 2015-12-01 19:31

 Funny that. Nearly every pinkie that I have caught off Carnarvon had the same deformity. I just thought it was something that affected the local population up there. Apparently not.

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Close proximity to Carnarvon

Tue, 2015-12-01 20:09

 The Shark Bay Snapper do too. Good question for Glenn from the museum. 

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I was under the impression

Wed, 2015-12-02 10:13

That the lumps in the spine are caused by the same things that grows the bump on the head?

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I used to work as a filleter

Wed, 2015-12-02 11:11

I used to work as a filleter at a couple of fish markets, and almost every pink snapper over two kilos had the bony lump near the spine just behind the anal fin. I always found the lump was more pronounced / extra smaller lumps were present, in direct correlation with the size of the hump on its head.

I always assumed it's a similar thing to the lumps on threadfin salmon.

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Biggest fish ever hooked

Thu, 2015-11-26 16:53

 I took a work mate out from Two Rocks a few years ago. He was a complete novice and had no idea what was going on most of the time so when he started to jump about saying he has a monster i was not too fussed.

The line started a nice slow peel from the reel with no head shakes so my call was snagged. The line then picked up the pace a bit and i was starting to think big ray until it started to head for the surface. I had the camera out taking some shots of the whales near us so i grabbed it expecting a massive leap from a big sail or something of that type. 

Both of us got a big shock when a 30 foot humpback surfaced with the line going straight to it. Biggest fish i have ever seen hooked.

Nothing to do but lock the drag and snap the line.

This is the shot i took 3min before hookup.

Whales by the boat

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lol

Mon, 2015-11-30 23:08

Bet your novice mate will be re-telling that story for years and years

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 Heres an old story that our

Tue, 2015-12-01 20:54

 Heres an old story that our port hedland members may relate to.  I was stationed at south hedland in the mid - late 80's.  Use to fish from a boat quite a bit but also from the town jetty.  Saw some really good mulloway caught there.  Also a massive groper and saw a 3m hammerhead foul hooked and bought to the surface before the hooks pulled.

 

One night there was a freighter alongside with some foreign crew members on board.  One of the town locals had hooked a good mulloway and got it to the surface before losing it.  The fish was flapping about on the surface not able to get back down.  The ships crewhad spotted this and next minute one jumped over the side and into the creek.  He wrestled this fish for a few minutes which was still flapping about until the other crew lowered a rope down to him and pulled him back up along with this decent size mulloway!  Then they disappeared inside and we didn't see them again that night.   They had "caught" their dinner!

 

Balls of steel, or just plain crazy jumping from that distance into the port hedland harbour on a rising tide with the distressed fish flapping around.....

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That would have been

Tue, 2015-12-01 21:00

  bloody funny to see. 

Those guys know how to make any fish taste really good too. 

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 I remember few years back

Wed, 2015-12-02 14:16

 I remember few years back story and picture in sunday times of guy walking his dog along bank of swan in bayswater/maylands area. sees very large mulla flapping on surface with  tail chomped off tells bloke walking who promptley jumps in and grabs fish . Must have been a big bull shark to chomp tail of as it looked a very large fish.