Claire's PB Coral Trout
Wade and I finally hit the water after a bit of a fishing drought......brought about by me as last time we went fishing I was filleting the fish and ignored Wade's advice to fillet with the knife pointing away from me....end result was 2 stitches, hurt pride and never being allowed to fillet fish again!!!
We hit the water at 5am and motored to our favourite spot. Being a full moon the current was up so we decided to trawl instead of bottom bash. Wade motored to the top of Bickerton Island in glassy conditions while I monitored the lines. In 5.5m of water, I heard the magic sound of the reel peeling off, zzzzzzzzzz, and after quickly tightening the drag started pulling our catch in. There was lots of praise for the skipper after I landed my biggest Coral Trout yet at 52cm.
Happy with our catch and before calling it a day, we threw a few twisties at some bait schools. Having only caught smaller tuna before (3-5kg), I had some fun pulling in a 6kg tuna - at least this one gave me a fight!
Looking forward to tasting the Coral Trout tonight as I've never eaten it before. I never ate fish until a month ago when I got hypnotised - worked a treat and am loving eating smoked mackerel!
Yet another great day on Groote!
wazzbat
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"Never being able to fillet
"Never being able to fillet fish again" sounds like a good trade off for a couple of stitches I reckon? Nice fish. You guys didn't take long to find em up there.
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cudbfishn
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Hypnosis hey. Sounds
Hypnosis hey. Sounds interesting. Well done on the trout.
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Sounds like you guys are in
Sounds like you guys are in utopia.
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crasny1
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And from the conditions
Looks like they are in utopia 2. Awesome catch on glass.
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Paul G
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Nice one clair still keeping
Nice one clair still keeping Wade on his toes I see.
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Nice
Congrats on the PB. A nice feed off of that one.
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deepwater
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Well done on the pb claire
Well done on the pb claire, i live in exxy and have still have not got any thing that big well done Claire jeff
GrahamM
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Great fish Claire and my
Great fish Claire and my personal favourite to eat well done
Faulkner Family
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well done claire on getting
well done claire on getting out of filleting fish
, great looking trout there.gotta be happy with the end resuls
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leviathan91
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looks a lot bigger than 52cm
looks a lot bigger than 52cm
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WELL DONE
Great fish there Claire and loks like your still having some great conditions as well, shame you have to do i so hard lol
claire
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Thanks for the comments.
Thanks for the comments. Yes, still keeping Wade on his toes but this was the first time I outfished him in ages (and to prove a point he is back on the water today trawling for Mackies while I'm at work!). Just waiting for the photos to get sent through on my phone to rub it in!
Groote is paradise and the glassy conditions will only get better as we move further into the wet season! Glad we moved here!
The trout was delicious!
Faulkner Family
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at least someone has the
at least someone has the easy life with good fishing right at their doorstep. gunna laugh if Wade comes up empty handed. would serve him right for getting out there while your at work
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claire
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Russ, up here you are always
Russ, up here you are always guarenteed to catch a fish, no matter what! Thats the benefit of living in a remote area surrounded by coral reef! And half his luck heading out fishing on a week day - thats 90% of the reason we moved to paradise!
Best thing is I don't have to wash the boat today!