Fish of a lifetime!!!! Monster LB sambo
havent been on here for a while and i have a fair few reports to put up soon including a recent trip to NZ chasing Kingys at ranfurly banks
ill start with this sambo because i still cant wipe the smile off my face at what i achieved yesterday arvo back at home in albany!!
was fishing a common rock spot just out of town for sambos or kings and after trying to get a lively to slide out and not being able to i rigged up the light setup while i left the 2 80lb setups out without baits ready to. anyway first cast with the light gear (300m of 20lb braid on a 4000 catalina and majorcraft KG Evo 962HH rod) bait hit the bottom and tap tap BOOM!!! i was on in a big way, huge headshakes had me calling it for a very big sambo before 100m of line dissapeared in a flash, felt the line touch reef so i backed off as this beast pulled the other 200m of line through the reef and out goes the backing knot, with about 20m left it finnaly stopped and i had to gently fight the fish on 6kg mono with the line still rubbing on the reef, 40 minutes and a tense 200m later the line came free of the reef but it was chaffed all along it so i had to go very easy on it, another 10 minutes and this huge silver shine rose from the depths and broke the surface!!! MONSTER SAMBO!!!! as i was fishing on the ledge on my own it took another 20 minutes to cliff gaff it and when i tried to pull it up with the rope gaff i finally understood how big this fish actually was, draggged it up the top and my friend took some photos for me but as i had to rope down a face to the ledge she stayed up the top and watched it all.
this is a fish of a lifetime for me and im still shocked how i managed to pull this off!! not going to put up a weight but its 160cm long and 144cm fork and the biggest sambo ive ever seen in person. still cant wipe the smile off my face!!
always looking for a new challenge!!
Belly88
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yeow!!
Fecking monster.. Well done Chris another awesome lb catch.
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big john
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That's a truly great capture, kudo's to you Chris.
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Bones76
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Great fish from anywhere let
Great fish from anywhere let alone the rocks...
sea-kem
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Off the planet!! LB capture
Off the planet!! LB capture of the year!
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Boydy
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That is one big unit! Good
That is one big unit!
Good skills.
Lamby
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Epic mate
Epic mate
Marineboy
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Fw record
hey previous best was 159cm you beat that by 1cm, good stuff.
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Ben Derecki
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Yeww that's a beauty. It's
Yeww that's a beauty. It's not only the fight but the line rubbing on the reef and the whole touch and go nature of it all that makes it such a memorable catch. Great work mate.
Hutch
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Holy crap that's a bloody
Holy crap that's a bloody monster sambo Chris, great capture on the light gear and LB
EL SYD
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Top stuff , will have to do
Top stuff , will have to do a road trip down that way big con grats
Johnny's
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Hell yeah. Great work
Hell yeah. Great work
Sharktale
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your heart still pumping!?
So are you keeping the 80lb setup's Chris? .....now that is fishing!
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Cheers guysi think I could
Cheers guys
i think I could of hooked this fish 1000 other times and I would of lost it. Still have no idea how I didn't get dusted when it got me on the reef, was a good 10 minutes there where the line was solid snagged and wouldn't move, just had to be patient and waited for it to swim out and free the line a little bit. Then gaffing it solo was an entirely different challenge haha using a cliff gaff on my own while the fish is washing around in the surge and I could see damaged braid above my leader made it a very tense time.
always looking for a new challenge!!
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SICK
Who took the pic?
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Chris fish
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My friend she stayed up the
My friend she stayed up the top at the car as she couldn't rope down to the ledge I was on so she could only watch as I fought and landed it solo and I brought it up top so I could get a photo.
always looking for a new challenge!!
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Killa, wld love to know the
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Chris fish
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we couldnt find scales heavy
we couldnt find scales heavy enough to weigh it so we had to cut it up and weigh pieces of it. i wont say what it went cause it causes arguments but its well over 70lbs of sambo on 20lb line
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Adam Gallash
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Yup
That's just crazy man, done extremely well!!!
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Guardy
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Well done
Especially as u did it on relatively light gear.
Formerathlete
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Outstanding achievement
Outstanding achievement Chris. Congrats!
crasny1
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Wow
Blown away by this. But nothing surprise me about your fishing Chris. Well done. Bloody beauty.
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devhay
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What a monster! props for
What a monster! props for pulling that thing in off the rocks
uncle
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thats a HUGE sambo
change to the avatar coming up,you will relive that for a while
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Bootboot
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Top fish and an awesome read
Top fish and an awesome read thanks for sharing it!
TorquenFish
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Holy shit! That's a
Holy shit! That's a ridiculous effort off the stones and solo to boot!
Brock O
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Fish of a Lifetime!!
For sure, Congrats Chris.....heart beats per hour would have gone through the roof.
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Cracker fish off the rocks
Cracker fish off the rocks well done!!!
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Great effort Chris, well
Great effort Chris, well done !!
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MJ
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Awesome Chris!
Your amazing captures just keep coming!
chipper
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Awesome, thats what i have
Awesome, thats what i have being trying for since moving south.
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Bunny
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If you had of caught this on
If you had of caught this on 130lb stand up off the stones I still would have said what a brilliant capture. To do it the way you did is just unbelievable. Might as well give up fishing now mate, you won't beat that...
WSHN4FSHN
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That is a cracker of a
That is a cracker of a catch!! Awesome work Chris!!
Burley it and they will come.
meglodon
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Un b liev able
That is one great sambo and to catch and land it off the rocks is something else. Well done
bod
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fantastic effort
fantastic effort Chris and great write up
SpinMeUp
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Wow and congrats
Awesome with a capital A ... well done mate, fish of a lifetime. Just blows my mind the way you caught that.
SHAMAN
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FISH OF A LIFETIME
AWESOME ANGLING CHRIS...WELL DONE !!!
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nice sambo cobber!!
nice sambo cobber!!