Red Emperor on the Salmon gear!

Fishing the Mackerel Islands recently and was surprised when we were told you dont have to go out past 50m to catch reds. Using my all rounder combo that usually catches Salmon (4000 Catalina, Smith 68m, PE2) I was hopping the ever faithful ZMan 5inch pearl Jerkshad off the bottom when one of the guys gets a massive hit on bait and misses it, next second I'm on and after I great fight on the light stuff I was pretty bloody stoked when this hit the deck. Old mate couldnt shutup about how I'd caught his fish, yeh yeh whatever, sure enough seconds later it spews up a whole mulie hahahaha. Beautiful fish and measured up at 66cm fork so maybe 6kg.

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 that is a cracker fish and

Wed, 2016-08-24 18:10

 that is a cracker fish and even better pic

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Awesome

Wed, 2016-08-24 18:13

I bet it went hard. Put that up as a POTM. Great catch & pic.  

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Yep

Wed, 2016-08-24 18:31

 Great photo of a decent fish that one.

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Wed, 2016-08-24 18:44

 Ripper red in anyone's book, well done.

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Yeah def a POTM!

Wed, 2016-08-24 18:49

 5" jerk shads...what DON'T they catch? Great fish, mate, and always a bonus when a stinkin' bait fisho comes off second best!

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That's a great catch

Wed, 2016-08-24 18:53

Well done on a very good catch well worth putting up as a POTM contender. a real good clean photo of your catch as well.

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 Thanks guys! Do I have to do

Wed, 2016-08-24 21:11

 Thanks guys! 

Do I have to do anything to put it for POTM?

The 5inch Jerkshad? Spanish Mackerel, I never pulled in a spaniard on one, quite often I did feel a small tap and wound in a full leader with the end cleanly snipped off though.....weird hahaha.

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 Just add the pic in the

Thu, 2016-08-25 07:46

 Just add the pic in the image forum with title POTM 

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When I was up in Kcity

Thu, 2016-08-25 08:00

tried and tried and tried to entice a red on a placcy. Trout no worries, but never got a red on artificials, so in my Humble opinion that is a great catch. Well done.

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Kurt you legend..

Thu, 2016-08-25 08:55

Mate awesome fish an awesome pic! assume the wrist was O.K?

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 Cheers Damo,Looks like the

Thu, 2016-08-25 13:36

 Cheers Damo,
Looks like the limp wrist issues will continue on for some time at this rate, but I can still use a rod and reel albeit with some funny angles so thats a big positive. 

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Thats very nice

Thu, 2016-08-25 11:32

 

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 As far as a Red on

Thu, 2016-08-25 13:38

 As far as a Red on artificials goes, not somehing I thought I would tick off the list either, I think the plastic just happened to be right in his face!

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 Just came back from a week

Fri, 2016-08-26 19:05

 Just came back from a week at mates shack of dampier, played with plastics a bit, red Emps, rankings, nw snapper, cods, trevallies etc.

havent used plastics much and was amazed at big variety of fish caught and lots of bust offs