Sunday Tinny Bash!!!
Went Out off Shoulwater with my Dad chasing some squid and maybe a pike or 2 plus a few herring.
We were on the water by about 8.30am and headed round to where i usually pick up a few squid.
Started off pretty quiet with no squid about, but on my first cast with the squid lure i saw a pike follow it up.
after 20 minutes of flicking the squid lure about, decided to put a Mulie on a gang under a float to see if i could lure some squid up.
After about 2 minutes of the mulie in the water, this little fella jumped on!
He went about 50cm in size.
After this it was really quiet for a while, and with the clouds over, it made it hard to see in the water even with the polaroids.
Decided to move a bit after about an hour, and headed about 50 metres or so away from where we were still trying to get some squid!
Finally we found some, and landed a few nice sized ones.
I was still floating a mulie under a float and attracting the squid to it, and bringing them closer to the boat (As i still couldnt see much in the water)
Then something bigger grabbed the mulie, and on 8LB line i had a bit of a fight on... managed to get this big fella onboard!! Went 95cm!!!
Sorry about the blood, but he swallowed the hooks.
Biggest pike i had caught in this location. Then the water started to heat up once the sun came out, and everything came on the bite.
So after about 6 hours on the water, we ended up with 5 pike, 11 Squid, 1 cuttlefish, 8 herring and 3 skippy.
All squid except 1 or 2 had tubes of over 30cm in length!!!! The unfortunate part was 2 of the squid were full of egg's which was a first for me, and if i had of known that i would have released them :(
Great day on the water!! and the Tinny is still producing!!!!!
Andy Mac
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Nice feed of squid there
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Top effort Body
Plenty of action and variety there Body, well done mate. As Andy said, that biggest pike is a cracker.
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Daniel Westerduin
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Nice meal there,Or some nice
Nice meal there,
Or some nice snapper baits.
Bodie
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Andy Mac, Let me tell you
Andy Mac,
Let me tell you Pike are one of the best fish to eat, especially fresh. They dont freeze that well, but they have very white flash and veryt ender and flakey (Scano can vouch!)
I cannot recommend pike enough to people...eat quality table fish!
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Heh Daniel, got plenty of
Heh Daniel, got plenty of Gardies for Snapper bait and a few herring too
Elora Danan
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Pearler of a Pike or Snook!
Loverly feed there mate and a few Snooks to boot too. Awesome!
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Good stuff Bodie
Some great squid there. I hear Pike makes pretty good bait.
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Monsters
Monster squid!! I always thought pike were full of bones for eating? Maybe not.
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Shorty
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Good Eating ?
Never heard of snook being good eating ? Will give it a try i reckon.
Recently brought myself a fishing kayak and intend to do most of the fishing in that area, but am a bit concerned with those sharp teeth flashing around while i sit on a small lump of plastic,lol
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Bodie
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Snook and Pike are 2
Snook and Pike are 2 different Fish
These are Pike, not snook :)
Nah Adam they are not full of bones, actually the opposite, they have big bones as their backbone and only a couple of centre bones
And no i wouldnt use them as bait, they taste too good!! :)
Jdubya
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big pikey looks like she
big pikey
looks like she would've pulled some string off that reel too
yeeha
tommytomato
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Well done Bodie, I've seen a
Well done Bodie, I've seen a few of these come in at bent street over the past week, shoalwater islands seems to be the hot spot, lots of squid caught near Pengiun island too.
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Those Pike are the biggest I seen in Rockingham area
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Bodie
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Yeah ive never fished for
Yeah ive never fished for Pike with a mulie under a float before, but it was the only way to stop the small skippy destroying the bait!!
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were were these caught?
were were these caught?
Hutch
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When? 6 years ago.Where?
When? 6 years ago.
Where? Shoalwater (Rockingham)