PB and only sail

Got this on a trip to christmas island at the end of last yr. caught on the second last day made for a memorable trip.




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well done. love the action

Thu, 2012-05-10 16:32

well done. love the action shots. not a bad one either

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great fish and pics...

Thu, 2012-05-10 16:39

great fish and pics... bird looks a little opportunistic

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F@#$%^N AWESOME

Thu, 2012-05-10 16:42

that is awesome for a pb .... im jealous as , i want to catch one of those or at least feel the power of one...well done!

 

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Looks like a solid saily there

Thu, 2012-05-10 17:13

.... its got a bit of depth and girth. Good effort

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wicked fish

Thu, 2012-05-10 17:50

great action shots

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 Rocky from shorefire who we

Fri, 2012-05-11 10:40

 Rocky from shorefire who we fished with rated it the best part of a 70kg fish so considering we weren't really targeting them was absolutely stoked. Was lucky enough to have a mate(samc) there ready to get some shots and he time it perfectly. Never realised how much the slime on them burns your skin it was like fire!

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 Man i miss that place

Fri, 2012-05-11 10:53

 Man i miss that place

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Awesome

Fri, 2012-05-11 11:13

Awesome sail and pics there mate.Brings back memories fo my first and only sail on popper with rocky and yep wear that burn like a badge of honour!

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Sail

Fri, 2012-05-11 11:27

Cracka. You'll do well if you ever beat that PB for a saily. Great fish. Top action shots as well.

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That's a Big Sail

Fri, 2012-05-11 12:13

as Soupy said you'll be doing well to beat that PB , nice fish

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Just one more cast , honest !!!  

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Nice Sail

Fri, 2012-05-11 18:25

I hooked this blue at less than 1km from launching from flying fish cove.

http://fishwrecked.com/image/blue-marlin-0

Nice fishing ground there.

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I loved the place it was so

Fri, 2012-05-11 14:27

I loved the place it was so nice and very well run by rocky. Wanna go back ASAP but trying to find someone to come when he has vacancies is hard.

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So do I

Fri, 2012-05-11 18:37

 Booked my air tickets last october, right after my trip for this years visit.

 Unfortunately Malaysian air suspended its flight from KL to CI, only way to get there is from perth now

 Rang up my friend from perth and might as well do an exmouth trip this october instead.  2012 trip, 3 weeks in exmouth.

 CI, next year for sure after the monsoon.

 Agree with you Baker, one of the best places I'd tried. Popping off the rock is magic, especially at dawn.

 

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nice fish

Fri, 2012-05-11 15:30

 You get a measurement of it at all, what line class was it taken on?

 

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What a beauty

Fri, 2012-05-11 15:34

Nice fish mate, well done, tick that off your list, nice pics too

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 Ken dog didn't measure it as

Fri, 2012-05-11 19:25

 Ken dog didn't measure it as basically we were trying to get it back as quickly as possible. As for line class I think it was on 24kg which is what he runs on all his tiagras I think due to the high numbers of tuna and wahoo means sharks so basically gotta try get em in quick, still took the best part of 30mins to get in as it sat deep in 200-300 metres of water wasnt an easy one to get up. We thought it might be buggered when it and up but it swam off bloody strongly we barely had to swim t just goes to show what a strong powerful fish they are!

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 That they are, again good

Sat, 2012-05-12 07:07

 That they are, again good fish mate!