Stonker Baldie

Got out today after a long dry spell and decided to have the kids babysat so we could get out of the sound.

The decky(missus) didnt feel real well so we stayed in pretty close, anchored up and fed the burly out, pulled in a nice Black Ass, the wife pulled in a couple of rat sambos, which she enjoyed.

Had my littel 10kg outfit ouot and next minute something took off. i could feel a decent bit of weight. I was hoping for a snapper as we had pulled in a few undersize, a couple of head shakes, but only short kinda slow runs had me wondering whether it was something differen...maybe a small sambo even.

Winding in a few small runs, calling it for everything thinking snapper, but didnt feel right and then got a bit of colour. Silver, ok good maybe this maybe that, and then the big friggen head came ito view, ouot came the net and I did a little fist pump, far out a "baldie" huge. And my first, I didnt expect that especially since we were in 12m of water, a Sambo, Kingy, snapper but not a Baldie.

Best of all it measures a full 72cm, STONKET yaaahooo....   :)

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huge

Sat, 2014-05-03 17:14

Awesome baldy mate well done

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horse

Sat, 2014-05-03 17:38

Yep gotta say thats a fair horse

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Cracker

Sat, 2014-05-03 17:44

Great fish!

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Thats a beauty

Sat, 2014-05-03 17:54

Thank god for baby sitters.

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Belting Baldy

Sat, 2014-05-03 17:54

 And the best eating metro fish IMO

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Baldie

Sat, 2014-05-03 18:49

 Nice one mate

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 Now thats what I call a nice

Sat, 2014-05-03 19:07

 Now thats what I call a nice Baldy. Great work.

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that's a stonka baldy mate

Sat, 2014-05-03 19:09

that's a stonka baldy mate well done

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Crakka

Sun, 2014-05-04 08:45

Top fish there, gotta love a nice baldy!

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Quality

Sun, 2014-05-04 09:05

 Great fish mate, tastey feed.

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 Thats a horse mate they dont

Sun, 2014-05-04 17:32

 Thats a horse mate they dont get much biger than that well done

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Woohoo

Sun, 2014-05-04 18:10

Wooho, its now on the record board, beauty fella, thanks and lets hope theres more.

Now maybe I can say I'm a fisherman, lol....a very lucky fisherman. :)

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wow

Sun, 2014-05-04 18:15

 biggest i have seen ,top marks.

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 That's a cracker mate well

Sun, 2014-05-04 19:03

 That's a cracker mate well done!

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 kin-ell!!! Biggest baldie

Sun, 2014-05-04 19:27

 kin-ell!!! Biggest baldie i've laid eyes on. Congrats! 

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Now thats a HOOTER baldy

Mon, 2014-05-05 08:52

Gotta be happy with that..

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 WOW M8, thats wicked and in

Tue, 2014-05-06 11:43

 WOW M8, thats wicked and in close to. well done.

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You sure thats a baldie

Tue, 2014-05-06 15:35

Mate that looks more like a very decent Big black spot Tuskie, that move down south and grew a gray goaty.

See Bluebone that size up north, but a baldie that size is more than a horse - its a truck. Biggest I have seen aswell

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Hard to beat

Tue, 2014-05-06 18:53

I've never seen a bigger one and I know quite a few fishermen who say the same, but to hear it from everyone so far is just amazing.

Was the biggest I had seen, surely a once in a lifetime capture, just glad it was my lifetime.