Best fighting Demersal Pound for pound
Submitted by crasny1 on Mon, 2010-07-19 14:00
Reading a post about the poor fight with a Dhue made me think what is the best fighter pound for pound.
Came up with Chinaman, NW snapper with Blue line top off the pops and jacks.
Interested to know others thought as there are plenty of fish I havent caught (yet).
Only Demersals but I am not sure whether a GT is demersal or pelagic.
Neels
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dodgy
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Toss up between Chinaman and
Toss up between Chinaman and Red Bass for me. Big jacks go pretty hard as well
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chrisp
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Pinks and Queen Snapper
Love the first run with pinks on light gear,If you have ever hooked a decent queen snapper they let you know about it as well,lots of head shakes and stubborn bastards fight right to the top.oh yeah forgot about the baldy.I have not caught a heap of northern demersals so cant really comment.
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Baldies go hard
But so do Sea Sweep for their size.
Thats when you get your hopes up with a reasonably strong fight only to see a bloody sea sweep float to teh surface. Pound for pound they fight well.
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Indiana
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pound for pound !
Would have to be Jacks ....their certainly the dirtiest fighters.
Next probably the travally family.
Then the Snappers
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Carry
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chinaman
Get onto a patch of these bruisers in deepwater lookout..time to stretch the arms yeahah
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Ryan C
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demersal fights
trying to hold onto a big pinkie on light /medium gear in shallow reefy country certainly gets the adrenalin pumping !!!
Jody
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definately
and absolutely an Amberjack
especially when they are 40 + kg :(
Bloody things lol
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Yer but us mortals don't
Yer but us mortals don't catch fish that big so I guess we will never know.Emperors go hard in shallow .
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Cods
The big bad boys from up north and in shallow water.
No hope at all getting them a couple of meters up off the bottom
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danno
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on lighter tackle skippy go
on lighter tackle skippy go hard and never realy give in.
snapper on most gear if you hook a good one its hard work.
kingfish. and the likes.
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Longnose Emperor and Big Reds go hard.
Hard to go past the chinaman (galloper) for all round grunt and stamina.
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Chinaman
Yep, Chinamanizza for me. Got a 10kg and 4kg as a double header in 25m of water and have never been worked on the gunnels so bad. Caught plenty of everything else but that was a standout.
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Red Bass
I've only caught one so far but it was without a doubt the best fight I've ever had. Loved it.
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Chinaman for me. Caught this
Chinaman for me. Caught this bad boy on plastics outfit in the montes in 10m of water. What a fight!
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For what I have caught thus
For what I have caught thus far, the chinaman gets my vote for sure.
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Alan James
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The hardest demersal string puller?
Up north I would say Chinaman and in Perth waters Queen Snapper. Not including cod, sambos, AJs or any of trevally species as demersals but I think a Chinaman of simialr weight would pull some of those backwards.
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or or
or
or
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up north i would say without
up north i would say without a doubt, the chinaman. down south i would say it has to be the queenie. they fight from start to finnish
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Three way tie
Its a three way tie with chinaman, red bass and jacks in deep water all take a hell of an effort to get them up.
Down south the big blue groper take a bit of shifting too.
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Red Bass and Jacks for
Red Bass and Jacks for me.
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big black jewies go hard!!!
and another vote for blue groper down south!!
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I'll vote for china's and
I'll vote for china's and Red Emperor. Bass and Jacks hit hard and try to bury you off the mark but once they can't see a refuge they seem to give up in my opinion. China's on the other hand fight hard all the way.
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So close between Chinaman
So close between Chinaman and bluebone for me.
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yep Chinaman for me too...
yep Chinaman for me too... caught a good 6-7kg fish on 10lb at the monte's on plastics, man it made me work. In only 3 metres of water too.
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green jobbie for me. Plus a
green jobbie for me. Plus a good pinkie.
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pound for pound im with you on this one
a green jobfish will pull a chinaman backwards.
So tell me have you got your info from years on the water or hours on the internet?
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Now it does appear the China wins hands down so far
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PS some magnificent photos there as well
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sambo
I got a 27kg sambo off the stones they go hard
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pound for pound green
pound for pound green jobby. Little ones go like big chinaman
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WA Jobbies must go harder
WA Jobbies must go harder than NT ones. Ones I've caught were not that memorable. Taste pretty good though.
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Must go harder than east
Must go harder than east coast ones too. My best is a 9kg fish on stickbait and it wasn't that tough. Best on light line where they get a chance to peel some string.
One of the best tasting fish around though.
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Hardest fighting Dermal for
Hardest fighting Dermal for me so far has been catching Jewfish in NT ( or Mulloway as we call them here in WA) in shallow water.
in less than 4~5m of water they steam trains!
that would followed by the Fingermark, as it was a dirty fighter and nearly snagged me twice on the anchor rope.
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another vote for chinaman.
another vote for chinaman. have to agree with red bass aswell, caught a 7kg one in exmouth recentlly and it was epic. big cod go extremly hard, caught a few around the 100kg mark in exxy a few years ago, the only way to get them off the bottom is with HEAVY handlines and make sure u wear gloves. also spangled emporer go hard for there size
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pound for pound buffalo
pound for pound buffalo bream, next would be skippy family.
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Yes I forgot about the one buff bream I caught
Thought what the. It was in the Dawesville cut on herring gear and mate me work my you no what off. After catching a couple of reds on Saturday night in shallow water I dont rate them that highly as some, certainly not a Jack and especially not like a good size Blue lined emporor. Also caught the pain in the but neighbours sweetlip and it went pretty hard and again made me think what the, just to be extremely dissapointed with the outcome. Good fun on light gear.
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I have never caught a
I have never caught a Chinaman so cant comment on them.
Of the ones I have caught I reckon Queen Snapper go really hard and NW Snapper would also be up there.
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I've never caught a Chinaman
I've never caught a Chinaman but would have to say for demersals for me it'd be big Fingermark
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Finger
My pick would be Finger mark aka gold snapper, one just about pulled me in the water this morning!