Slippery as a eel ..
Submitted by chris raff on Wed, 2016-01-20 07:30
Something different for me yesterday catching this fella , it ended up doing a houdini twisting up and dehooking itself off . Which was a bonus because no one volunteered to grab the bugger .
Fairly quiet day on our spots but got a feed , Skipper Duges salvaged the day with a dhu .. and a good size black ass . We kept the one sambo as he doesn’t mind his sambo / potato patties .
Fisheries research boys back at the ramp , most probably not the best place to set up but it was pretty quiet ..
Good to get out been all work and no play for a while ..
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Sam_Wood
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sunshine
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Great second photo
Seen several smaller versions - that one is a specimen - pity you didn't measure it as it would surely go on the record board (for most undesirable species)
Hate the slime !
duncan61
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Cool report
Sambo
s eat up good as long as they don't have the parasite that makes them mushy
just do it.
kirky79
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Sambo
We keep a few Sambos they make fine Thai Fish Cakes. That is a cracking BA
Dazzler
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Nasty
Great photos of the eel, especially the second one. Nasty looking piece of work.
chris raff
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Is it a Moray eel ? .. I
Is it a Moray eel ? ..
“Intelligence is like a four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.”
sunshine
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I call if for a green reef eel
But stand to be corrected
hezzy
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nice feed chris often come
nice feed chris
often come across an eel when we get our abalone ,
they love to sneak out and steal an easy feed or bit you if your sticking your hand in close to their lair , gloved or not lol
also sometimes get one in a cray pot bait basket , more on the winter reds than any other time ime
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petermac
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not eals but sea snakes
when I lived up north if we saw a sea snake we would drop over the side for a dive as we saw them as a good sigh as it was good reef country ( that was back in the days of paper sounders)