Snapper off the beach
Submitted by pauldoohan1 on Mon, 2012-07-02 11:56
Went for a lazy fish on Sunday at a south metro beach with a mate, he was targeting sharks (and got smoked) and I was as usual targeting Mulloway. Had a sand whiting I had caught 20 min earlier taken by this monster.
Pretty bl00dy stoked with this fish, was outta the blue and guess I was just in the right place at the right time. From nose to fork was 1mt. Good reward for many hours put into beach fishing lately.
Rod Daiwa Ballistic
Reel Shimano Thunnus bait runner spooled with 30 pound Finns braid.
Running sinker down to a 1 mt 60 pound trace and a pair of snelled Gamakatsu's.
Apologies for the pictures had some better ones but they might show where it is.
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Bodie
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wow Nice fish in deed, well
wow
Nice fish in deed, well done!
Bruce
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look at the bumps on its
look at the bumps on its head!
Great fish
beau
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Solid!
Solid!
Andy_b
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fark well done
fark well done
dkonig82
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not too many crack the 1m
not too many crack the 1m mark!
solid fish
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Zoggy84
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Very nice work!
Very nice work!
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Rick
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Awesome
Great catch from the beach, bet your still smiling
Well done
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Leemo
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Honker! perfect bait aswell,
Honker! perfect bait aswell, they love those whiting!
Good job mate!
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grantarctic1
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Great fish
Great fish mate, and a bonus to get it land based, well done
crasny1
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Your killing me
Magnificent snapper, and from the beach. Between you and Vis22 just awesome.
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beau
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Just had another look at this
Just had another look at this now that I'm not driving, such a fricken beast, look at the head and gob on that thing!
Someone on here said whiting are the Mars bars of the sea, I think they're onto something!
Aaron Santos
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Cracker pinky mate, and land
Cracker pinky mate, and land based makes it even better. nice work
Still trying to catch fish!
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Handi 1
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Beauty of a fish , congrats !
Beauty of a fish , congrats !
Dhui on river to sea jig a few years back , 16 kg ! PB for me .
grayzeee
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Fark. that trumps a mulloway
Fark. that trumps a mulloway in my book anyway.
well done.
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Brody
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Awesome snapper mate,
Awesome snapper mate, especially from land.
mrbishi
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Absolute cracker - top
Absolute cracker - top effort from the beach!!
PilbaraBrad
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good stuff, very well done
good stuff, very well done
shorething
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serious beast!! lucky you
serious beast!! lucky you have a site like this to show it off too!
SABRE
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Gotta be happy pulling that
Gotta be happy pulling that out of the surf well done
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mucsavage
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Great fish mate, well done on
Great fish mate, well done on getting that bad boy on the sand. Fair play..
MK2
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Well done, nice catch
Well done, nice catch
rails8291
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Monster
Well done, very jelious , nice beach catch, how far out did you cast,
aalfred
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Thats awesome from the
Thats awesome from the beach!!
pauldoohan1
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Thanks everyone for the
Thanks everyone for the congratulations. I'm still smiling about it, just can't believe the size of him , not sure I'll ever beat that Pinky from the sand. I didn't mention the fight but it was pretty epic and he just didn't stop but once I got him beached he had fought himself out and could not be returned. I'm usually keen not to take the bigger fish home and love to watch them swim away so I took alot of care getting him filleted up and he will be feeding me for awhile. Will remember this fish for many years.
Always at the beach.
Lamby
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Cracking mate & LB too!
Cracking mate & LB too!
Adam Gallash
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Sick
Thats one siiick snap off the sand, well done mate.
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Gadsy
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Yes, a memorable catch indeed
Well done!
Perry Home
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"Will remember this fish for many years."
Fish oof a lifetime mate - congrats - awesome work - continues to show what a restriction on Demersal Gillnets is providing for the greater Perth Region. It would be interesting for a collection of some of the classic catches, particularly off the beach to see if this has improved since the restriction of netting. That would at least anecdotally show fisheries how much better things have become since the Metro closure .Any which way thats the type of catch to motivate anyone to get out there with world class fishing on the doorstep of the city!
thebrett
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great catch, great size
great catch, great size seems to be allot of rare land based catches happening, have to get out and give it a go for some land based snapper, good work
craigb
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Awesome... set the bar high
Awesome... set the bar high with that one. Well done
pricey10
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Very Nice!!
Very Nice!!
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naydog36
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niiiice
a snapper that big off the beach is worth 10 from the boat. great catch
sea-kem
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Very nicely done there mate.
Very nicely done there mate. The sand Whiting are awesome bait live we got two cranking Pinkies last summer on livies.
Love the West!
carnarvonite
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Yesterdays
Not much use trying to disguise where you caught the fish because now its yesterdays fish and cannot be caught again, that is if you took it home.
The chances of catching another one like it again are bloody small because look how long its taken you to get a ball burster like that one, you just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Well done.
pauldoohan1
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TRUE and in all for sharing
TRUE and I'm all for sharing and normaly do but was just thinking of the locals. Didn't want to offside them.
Always at the beach.
soupster51
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Pink
Great fish LB. Congrats.
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metroLBfisher
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absolute stonker! awsome
absolute stonker! awsome stuff mate. i hope my first is even half the size of that!
Good things come to those who bait
Jase123
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Beast male
Huge male that one mate. One to show the cocky South Australians! :P beautiful stuff
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adian73
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well done
well done mate,
i got one at two rocks 2 weeks ago
tantrum
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That's a beautiful fish mate
That's a beautiful fish mate and land based too!... The big snapper seem to be hanging around in close at the moment. As I was coming in from an unproductive day of fishing on the boat yesterday the fisheries officer just told me that some lucky bugger had just landed a 9 kilo pinky off the rocks at the woodmans point groyne... Just goes to show what happens when you're in the right place at the right time.
JohnF
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Top notch from the beach!!!!!
Top notch from the beach!!!!!
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Ian Macca
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Well done very jelous
Well done very jelous here!
I'm yet to catch one that big from a boat!
meglodon
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thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing your experiance with a great lb catch