Thumping King George
Submitted by Lowza on Sat, 2013-08-31 05:05
First forum post!
Caught this King George Whiting at the back of Garden Island couple of weeks ago in around 20m of water on size 10 Long Shank hook with some peeled prawn! on my Okuma 3000 Trio with 1-3kg Tairyo Spin Stick.
Was chasing the usual feed of good size sand whiting when this thumper slammed the bait. The length came in at 71cm didn't get a weight on him....
Plenty of Sand whiting after him and 2 Reasonable skippy at 50cm a piece.
Let me know your thoughts.
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SKREW-LOOSE
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his on roids
his on roids
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scano
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Bloody cracker of a kg mate. Welcome to the site. Normally new people sign up to learn more about fishing and techniques. Judging by the look of that kg you might be instructing a few lessons....haha
cheers
scano
Adam Gallash
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71
71 is a fair horse, congrats and welcome!
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snapper_seeker
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new f/w record
Did you get a measured photo by any chance, that would be a new fishwrecked record.
Lowza
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Didnt realise!
When I brought it back to the Cockburn Ramp I got brought back to the earth by the Old boy saying he has caught them 75cm+ often on whole gangs mulies so I didn't realise it could have been a record hence I didn't weigh it. I was too eager to get it in the pan....
Lamby
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Fair ol' kidney slapper!
Fair ol' kidney slapper! Cleggy would be proud of that one
surfhead
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Funny
Funny contrast in expressions on your face and the fish's face - picture 2.
Well done, great catch
meglodon
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great catch and great on the chew
well done
TheJettyRat
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What a horse, nice one.
What a horse, nice one.
keg
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gotta be happy with that
nice fish
Jorie
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solid fish!!
solid fish!!
Browndog
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Yep, that's a cracker!
Great fish in my local area, gives me hope for a summer full of KG's.
Welcome to the site.
BD
Belly Fish
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That would be a cracker...
Our club record is 1.402kg and was only 58cm long. Strangely enough, going back through the records we did have one previously of 59.5cm that was 1.2kg
At 71cm, that one might have be close to 2kg.
Well done
DhuBoi
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The old boy is right mate ,
The old boy is right mate , my grandad n uncles have caught them back in the day near near on 90cms thicker than coke cans . For these dYs that is a crscker effort speciay on such light gear !! Thanks for sharing
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-chippy-
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what a ripper! but i dont
what a ripper!
but i dont know anyone thats ever caught anything like 71cm near Garden Island, its a fish nursery, some of which we cant even fish in, if we do we just get babies...so i had to look twice and sure enough your from Perth so i guess its not the SouthOz Garden Island, lolz
cheers
chippy
Lowza
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Garden Island
Definitely garden island western Australia keep in mind was probably 4km west south side of island.