christmas miracle

My brother in law Aaron picked up a new boat during the week.So we thought we'd go out this morning on the river to chase a few crabs for chrissy as the wind was blowin all day.

along came the wives and a few stinky fish heads, and as a last thought we threw in a few rods with the thouhgt of flicking some plastics around to pass the time. After getting on the water we realised all the plastics  were left at home except for an 80g pirate that was rigged up from earlier on in the week on my demon blood pe1-2 and saragosa 4000, Oh well we thought so much for a fish.

We dropped in a few smelly crab nets around claremont yacht club and tied up to enjoy a refreshing beverage or two. After a quick swim Aaron was playing with his new sounder and out of boredom I decided to drop over  only jig for a mess around.

20 seconds later a fish pops up on the sounder and we laughed about hooking up, then... hang on a minute I'm on!

After five or ten minutes and around the boat a few times a big silver mullaway pops his head up at the boat for the gaff Unbelievable,it pulled the scales down to 17kg.

No shit, a big mother mulla at 11:00am on a jig in the river, needless to say we were quite excited with ourselves and the neighbouring boat a little bit jealous.All those night fishes with nothing and then to pick one up out of nowhere just goes to show right place right time.

I told Aaron he doesn't need to get me any other pressies tomorow i'm happy.

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AMAZING

Sat, 2011-12-24 20:34

AMAZING

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 awesome capture!!  The good

Sat, 2011-12-24 20:45

 awesome capture!!  The good old Pirate does the trick, they are dynamite those things, one of my favourite lures.  

 

I bet the girls on the boat were stoked

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amazing

Sat, 2011-12-24 20:39

would be hard to believe without the photos!

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...... Lucky much. Nice catch

Sat, 2011-12-24 20:40

...... Lucky much. Nice catch and even better on lures during the day, not many people can say that mate well done.

Nice fish as well mate good stuff.

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Arse beats class every time

Sat, 2011-12-24 20:42

Arse beats class every time  Shit hot mate, nice work . . .

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unbelievable NO very much believable

Sat, 2011-12-24 20:53

This was the most amazing thing i have ever seen on a boat. I was the lucky boat owner/gaffer who got to witness this unbelievable capture.

How many people chase these things night after night with no success and we just happen to throw a jig out and 20 seconds later BANG!!!

 

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LIVE IT UP!

Sat, 2011-12-24 20:55

that is quite astonishing!!   people fish for years to land one of them and you do it in that style!! Fantastic!!

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Hohoho

Sat, 2011-12-24 20:59

Merry Xmas you arsey buggars!

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 Awesome stuff! they seem to

Sat, 2011-12-24 21:33

 Awesome stuff! they seem to get quite a few mullas on jigs in Jurien so not entirely surprised...  great Xmas pressie!

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Wow

Sat, 2011-12-24 22:51

Wow thats great capture , Awsome

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Merry Bloody Christmas

Sun, 2011-12-25 04:18

Best present ever I would have to say.

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That is an awesome catch. 

Sun, 2011-12-25 06:50

That is an awesome catch.  Well done.  You'll be telling people about that forever and they won't believe you so make sure you carry a pic around with all the time.

 

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That's as arsy as...

Sun, 2011-12-25 07:20

... catching a marlin between Rottnest and Carnac on small Laser Pro whilst trolling for Tuna

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 What a capture!  The beauty

Sun, 2011-12-25 07:27

 What a capture!  The beauty of fishing....drop a  line in the water and you never know what might come up!

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Wow top work guys! Catch of a

Sun, 2011-12-25 07:34

Wow top work guys! Catch of a life time!

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I read this last night half pissed

Sun, 2011-12-25 07:54

Got up this morning reread it and I still dont believe it!  Awesome daytime capture there, Fillets on the bbq for breakfast eh?:D

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Thats Mad!!

Sun, 2011-12-25 08:59

Merry christmass!!

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Great fish & story mate,

Sun, 2011-12-25 09:05

Great fish & story mate, congrats

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Bloody great result that!Nice

Sun, 2011-12-25 09:48

Bloody great result that!

Nice fish

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Absolutely awesome mate, you

Sun, 2011-12-25 10:24

Absolutely awesome mate, you made the call & reap the reward! Nothing arsey about it

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fishing is a wonderful

Sun, 2011-12-25 10:40

fishing is a wonderful mistress at time...

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Well. I have no words. Well

Sun, 2011-12-25 12:55

Well. I have no words. Well done. Or more like, you lucky bastard! LOVE when you get things you are not expecting. Caught a 2kg Black Arse over a sand patch fishing for whiting in 10m earlier in the ear. It is a shock. Yours more so!

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Top Fish

Sun, 2011-12-25 17:13

 It wont get any easyer than that!! Well done

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Gob smacked, buy a lotto

Sun, 2011-12-25 18:16

Gob smacked, buy a lotto ticket pronto

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 Bloody awesome fish.. And

Sun, 2011-12-25 20:12

 Bloody awesome fish.. And very lucky mate, go and by a lotto ticket :)

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Awesome! What are the chances

Sun, 2011-12-25 21:54

Awesome! What are the chances of being able to repeat that? Come on... Bet you can't?

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Did you get any crabs to top

Mon, 2011-12-26 09:14

Did you get any crabs to top it off?

Great Fish mate sensational work

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Wanker!

Mon, 2011-12-26 14:30

You Are one assy bugger! just like when you came out on my boat last tuesday i was saying i have never caught a Harlequin or a queen Snapper, and guess what you bring in!!!!???? bloody both of them!

 

all i can say is what a wanker! haha

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Fillets

Mon, 2011-12-26 14:32

Oh and where is my fillets? you said you were gonna drop them round haha!

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 What sounder was it, IM

Mon, 2011-12-26 18:55

 What sounder was it, IM BUYING ONE

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great fish

Tue, 2011-12-27 12:22

good fish Boonmack , one for the river in the middle of the day and also no requirement to have every lure and bait out , well done

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well done! Great looking

Wed, 2011-12-28 12:19

well done! Great looking fish.

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 Awesome fish mate, extremely

Wed, 2011-12-28 19:07

 Awesome fish mate, extremely lucky!!!!

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Gold

Wed, 2011-12-28 19:20

Like to see you do that again, what a catch!

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 *shaking my head* Noice

Wed, 2011-12-28 19:59

 *shaking my head* Noice one!!!

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 Got to be kidding me.  What

Fri, 2011-12-30 21:35

 Got to be kidding me.  What a fish!

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awsome croaker mate, well

Sat, 2011-12-31 11:33

awsome croaker mate, well done on the light tackle & jig too.

cheers

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Wow!

Sat, 2012-06-23 19:31

 Same thing happened to my dad one christmas!! But he didn't land it- he rigged up for a bream and got smashed by a mulla!! Needless to say he got snapped off pretty soo. :) haha

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get out

Sat, 2012-06-23 21:24

get out....is that in freshwater bay?