MARRON!!!
Submitted by Higgo77 on Sun, 2013-12-22 15:42
not long until the season opens for 2014! always look forward to getting back home and having my yearly marron fish. Just thought I'd add a photo of the 130mm beast I caught last year (to wet everyone's appetite)! we always get a lot of the 90mm to 115mm but 130mm this day and age is a real cracker. I remember as a youngster it was a regular catch in my local river but it's not the case now unfortunately.
I've added a photo of a 92mm up against the 130mm.
Good luck to anyone venturing out this season! Cant wait!!
Higgo
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meglodon
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That is a rip snorta
Very big marron that
Higgo77
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photo doesn't give it justice
Unfortunately the photo doesn't give it justice meglodon... you have to look at the claws to the size of my hand.
lame
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another to get everyone itching
Higgo77
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Good size
That's a great size lame!
lastcast
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i remember on my folks farm
We would throw in a cray pot once a year. that was all the fishing
Pressure that mile of the river ever got. we would pull them up
For the christmas day table for the extended family normally
Between 3 and 4 pounds sometimes a bit bigger. now its all grape
vines sme absentee hong kong banker probly doesnt know whats
Under his nose.
catch.fish
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Marron
Nice one mate, you gotta be happy with that!
I actually grew up on a Marron Farm down near Bridgetown, lived there first 16 years of my life and would catch them daily year round almost got sick of the taste of marron (almost haha)! Will dig some of the old boys pics out over xmas, scan em and post a few we got a couple of absolute monsters over the years!
Higgo77
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sounds great catch.fish! look
sounds great catch.fish! look forward to seeing them mate. I grew up the same mate. We own property in Frankland River and obviously had the dams stocked (and obviously marron from the river). Great way to grow up in my opinion :)
Anytime Brad
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Frankland
In the old days used to go out to the Frankland with Granddad and dad (RIP. some of my early memories of marroning are from there. Caught some stonkers over the years. Can still remember the march flies as well. should also dig up some old photos.
I would rather be fishing
catch.fish
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Marron
Tried to dig up some of the old photos I was talking about but most of them are buried away in packing boxes - I did find some good pics of at least one tho!
It's next to a tape measure but a bit hard to measure as its carapace is broken and missing a bit at the rear. I remember Dad putting this one on the trailer to snap a few photos and our dog grabbed it and tried to take off with it breaking the bottom carapace / top of tail in the process haha.
Looks to be somewhere around 150mm-160mm or so but I do remember we had one that was pushing 170+ with one giant claw and one little one that we kept alive in our aerated grow out tanks for a few months - I know theres photos of it somewhere so will upload them when I find em!