Blue Groper on soft plastic

 A glorious day in Augusta using soft plastics when I got a zinger of a run. After a decent fight I pulled this one up by the ass! 

The setup was a Shimano raider with 20lb line and 25lb leader. 

It was my first blue groper by the way!

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Nice, I got my first one down

Mon, 2016-02-01 16:59

Nice, I got my first one down in augusta a few weeks ago aswell!

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Arsy or what

Mon, 2016-02-01 17:11

Would have been quite the tussle foul hooked. Nice fish.

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 Nice fish! Used to hear

Mon, 2016-07-18 07:48

 Nice fish! Used to hear story's of my old man catching them on a handline of the rocks in Albany. Bucket list fish for sure!

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One very nice fish

Mon, 2016-07-18 20:30

You say you hooked him in the arse, looks more like you nearly ripped the arse out of him LOL.
Well done

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nice work groper almost

Tue, 2016-07-26 08:00

nice work

groper almost always blow their arse end like that , no matter how slow or well you bring them up

id be guessing it was a light wind /glass of kind of day with bugger all drift when you got him veitch ??

hezzy

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 Got one out of Canals two

Sun, 2016-08-21 21:58

 Got one out of Canals two weeks ( sat ) ago Hezzy on a pretty big swell day but you are right there was bugger all wind/drift and yep he blew his arse out.... Was also foul hooked on a 120g blade 

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out of canal on a big swell ,

Mon, 2016-08-22 08:21

out of canal on a big swell , lol
bet you had fun at the ramp timboon ??

groper ime don't like to chase a bait too quickly so you often hear of blokes getting them on slow drift or glass of days , its like they will not chase a fast drifting bait [.8-1.5 knots ] but with no wind or a glass off day they will pick up a bait or jig as it slowly drags across hard coral bottom , every one iv caught has fitted this pattern

the blown rear seal thing makes them poor release candidates usually

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Yep swell was 3m @ about 13

Wed, 2016-08-24 21:07

Yep swell was 3m @ about 13 sec Hezzy, Getting the dingi off is never a drama but because of electric trim/tilt it makes it difficult coming in hot driving it on but i fluked it and we nailed it and were outa there unscathed but what a mongrel of a ramp!! 

Its been a couple of years since i've gone north to Canals, I've been huntin Hamelin/Augusta more in recent times but i do have a spot out wide that i'm really keen to get back to but it will definately be on a smaller swell day!!

On a positive note, we had the carpark to ourselves :)