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Submitted by TGMitchell on Tue, 2013-06-04 16:08
Caught this little sucker (22cm) this morning - It grunts like a skippy, got a tail like a skippy, plays like a skippy but ain't a skippy
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The Black Baron
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till
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Yellowtail.
Yellowtail.
thebmac
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yellow tail scad. (yakka) i
yellow tail scad. (yakka) i think. could be wrong
Beats working!!!!!!
Bruce
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BAIT
BAIT
Super peg
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+1 Yellow tail scad+1 live
+1 Yellow tail scad
+1 live bait
The art of fishing consists of casting, winding, trolling and jigging
while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing.
TGMitchell
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Cool - thx - know for next
Cool - thx - know for next time
The Black Baron
smicko
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Used to get a lot of these
Used to get a lot of these around Perth thirty years ago, don't seem to see them much anymore.
TGMitchell
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One more on my species
One more on my species list.....
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carnarvonite
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Doctor
If you looked down its throat you would probably have seen a big sea lice in there, commonly known in yellowtails as the doctor.
petermac
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sea lice
are they sea lice that they get ? I saw on I saw on Ifish with Paul Worsling where he said they were a parasite that attaches them self to a fishes tounge and eat it away until it becomes the fishes tounge sounds like a horrible way to go either way just asking as I don't know, maybe some one out there will enlighten us
randall df223
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Hey, carnarvonite, on the
Hey, carnarvonite, on the subject of crawley things, what are the small centipede looking things that crawl out of the estuary cod nose (???) when you pull them into the boat.
Fish! HARD!
carnarvonite
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Sea lice
They are sea lice, have seen them up to around 30mm long.
Look like compacted a whitish cockroach that will strip a fish or shark dead on a sandy offshore bottom in a matter of hours especially over the new moon period where its super dark at night.
Know of heaps of tricks played on new deckies when they first come across them. They know them as bum bugs to give you an idea.
randall df223
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Cheers, will keep my bum
Cheers, will keep my bum cheeks severely tightened if I ever find the need to sleep on an trawler!
Fish! HARD!
catchalittle
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good live bait for snapper
good live bait for snapper and gummy sharks
Nathan
sea-kem
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Classic Yellowtail. Used to
Classic Yellowtail. Used to catch them as a kid off Freo wharf. Those Lice used to make us run a mile.
Love the West!
MattMiller
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You can catch
absolutely zillions of these buggers at the Busso jetty.
Prime live bait for Mulla's
TGMitchell
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How best to hook it up?
How best to hook it up?
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mjohns
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single or snelled 4/0's one
single or snelled 4/0's one lightly through upper tail end and one behind the head in the top of the body..
Had 2 live yellowtail out when we got our mulla and it took a mulie in the middle of the two... go figure hey!
TGMitchell
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will try that - cheers
will try that - cheers
The Black Baron