First post

On Tuesday a mate and I decided our time would better be spent fishing than at work given the weather on the weekend is not looking flash.

 

Headed out from Mindarie at about 8:30 to look for a spot we'd heard about. After sounding around for a while we found what we were looking for and the first drift produced a cracking sambo on a jig. There was another boat anchored up nearby doing well on baits so we decided to do the same. Within about 30 minutes we'd boated and successfully released a fish each - my mate's son needed a bit of help but got there in the end. Not much action on bottom species so went home empty handed, but since everyone caught a pb sambo was still a great day! The last one caught was the biggest and we estimate it would have been at least 25kg.

 

On another note, people on the boat near us were picking fish up by the gills and taking a fair while to get them back into the water. A couple they'd released hadn't swum off and weren't looking real flash. They did the right thing though by pulling up anchor and going over to the fish to make sure they survived. It's great to see such powerful fish swim away to fight another day.

 


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Welcome

Thu, 2010-07-08 09:58

Great first post Tim and welcome to FW'd.  Congrats on the PB's...the young lad will be grinning for weeks with a fish like that.

Just a tip with ya pics.  Spin ya boat around so the sun is directly on the fish and fisho and try to keep the launcher shadows out....oh and fill flash on (if you have it).  Might aswell get a top pic to go with PB captures (or any capture for that matter).

Once again a great first post.

Cheers Pete

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Sambos

Thu, 2010-07-08 10:04

Nice work on the PBs. Slept well that night I'm sure.

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sambo

Thu, 2010-07-08 10:06

some nice fun there, always a great sport fish, the young fella would have been stoked

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nice fish and welcome to the

Thu, 2010-07-08 10:09

nice fish and welcome to the site you learn alot on here

cheers matt

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Gday and welcome its nice to

Thu, 2010-07-08 13:32

Gday and welcome its nice to see you getting into some sambo's they go hard and are great fun to catch

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great work timvb good to c

Thu, 2010-07-08 17:00

great work timvb good to c new members having a go and look forward to seeing more report and pic well done

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Welcome timvb

Thu, 2010-07-08 17:14

Sambo's are fun and a nuisance all at the same time.

 

Good work on getting a fish in before the big blow. This weekend looks aweful.

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nice work, good to see the

Thu, 2010-07-08 19:42

nice work, good to see the young fella getting amongst them

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would have been fun for all

Thu, 2010-07-08 23:09

would have been fun for all getting the pb sambo's. great effort to the young bloke.good fighters and great fun...............BTW welcome to fishwrecked. its a good clean family site to share your passion with many others that feel the same

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nice work Tim , sambo's are

Fri, 2010-07-09 08:30

nice work Tim , sambo's are always good value!!

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Welcome mate

Fri, 2010-07-09 08:48

And nice work on the sambos. The little fella would have grown a couple of inches pulling in that samson. His arms anyway! LOL

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welcome to the site

Sun, 2010-07-11 09:12

good to see a bunch of mates, kids and all, out fishing and enjoying the spoils.

sambo's sure are fun and a great fish to learn the basics of fishing.

look forward to more reports

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Welcome aboard ,some nice

Sun, 2010-07-11 11:02

Welcome aboard ,some nice sambos always good fun to get into them until the arms start to burn .

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