More massive walks and epic fish

 Did another mad dash to the south coast with a good mate just for the days fishing on Sunday. Arrive sat arvo and slept the night before getting up at first light and starting the walk. Went to a great sambo spot of ours and I picked one up 4th cast on my light gear which reefed the crap out of me on the 40lb gear. Persisted for a few more hours for nothing exciting then decided to walk further and explore up the coast further. Found an insane looking hole just absolutely littered with Bommies. This has groper written all over it. First cast for me and missed a big bite. Rebaited and second cast my crab got smashed. This fish tried its best to reef me but I got the upper hand and a lovely groper about 10kg came up. Josh’s turn and his first cast resulted in an absolute smoking. Second cast for him and he stayed connected and landed a great fish. We took turns for a bit more with him landing a tiny one, I pulled hooks on 2 more which one of them was massive. My crab got hit by something that felt like a car and I had my Stella 18k drag tightened all the way down with not another click to go and this fish pulled drag as it hit my bait before pulling hooks shortly after!! That was very large!!

after a mad hour fishing for groper we packed up and started the 2 hour walk back to the car then headed back to Perth. 

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 You guys are insane! Well

Fri, 2018-03-09 11:21

 You guys are insane! 

Well done again, keep the awesome LB fish coming

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 nothing like a nice walk and

Fri, 2018-03-09 11:24

 nothing like a nice walk and a bit of weight training on a sunday. 

well done to both of you. sounds like you had  a freight train hooked at the end. there is some monsters out there. always remember a blue that my grandfather got down augusta way that went near on 6foot long. that was 30 odd years back tho. 

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 There still is monsters like

Fri, 2018-03-09 20:01

 There still is monsters like that out there. True monster fish that we wouldn’t stand a chance of landing on a rod and reel. 

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 rippa report and yes you

Fri, 2018-03-09 17:47

 rippa report and yes you lads are killing it but working bloody hard too. 

 do you think these places you are finding are being fished by others? 

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Thanks!

Fri, 2018-03-09 20:00

 The locations we fish I know used to be explored by my grandfathers generation. Nothing or very little info from my dads generation and not a mention of my generation so I would be happy to say that 80% of the places we go to haven’t seen a person in at least 5-10 years. Pretty much every spot we are now fishing there isn’t a sign of anyone having been there at all. We have gone to places and left markers of our presence like footprints or broken branches so you can see when people have been to a place and we are yet to see a mark other than our own with the places we are visiting that we class as super remote.  

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 thats awesome... so much

Fri, 2018-03-09 20:05

 thats awesome... so much land left to explore, good luck to you lads

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Thanks

Fri, 2018-03-09 20:08

 cheers and yeah the exploring and getting to untouched places is half the adventure for us now. Pushing our limits and finding new places is what drives us. The fish are just a bonus and are getting more regular and larger each bit of extra effort we make. Started with common spots then 1-2km walks and now average 2 hours and 7-10km each way now but the results you can’t even compare to anywhere else you can fish. 

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 you lads taking full first

Sat, 2018-03-10 05:37

 you lads taking full first aid kits, gps epirbs, extra water and so on? 

 read all your reports on here and facebook, look forward to reading more of the unknown 

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Good onya guys...

Fri, 2018-03-09 19:15

 ...nothing special, shifty, or secret about your success...just good old fashioned bloody hard work and commitment!

Is the single on that Xrap meant to look like that, lol!

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 Just the angle of the photo

Fri, 2018-03-09 19:54

 Just the angle of the photo but it was all good haha

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 Nice work mate. Couple of

Fri, 2018-03-09 23:20

 Nice work mate. Couple of crackers there! Love the socks on the other dude ha