Blue Groper on soft plastic
Submitted by veitch1993 on Mon, 2016-02-01 16:12
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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merdel12
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Nice, I got my first one down
Nice, I got my first one down in augusta a few weeks ago aswell!
Wes F
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Arsy or what
Would have been quite the tussle foul hooked. Nice fish.
Old fishermen never die they just smell that way.
Reel Tight
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Nice fish! Used to hear
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!
The tighter the better!
meglodon
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One very nice fish
You say you hooked him in the arse, looks more like you nearly ripped the arse out of him LOL.
Well done
hezzy
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nice work groper almost
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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timboon
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Got one out of Canals two
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
hezzy
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out of canal on a big swell ,
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
hezzy
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timboon
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Yep swell was 3m @ about 13
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 :)