what is your personal best
Submitted by Faulkner Family on Sat, 2008-11-15 08:06
as the weather is not looking good this weekend for fishing
i was wondering what your personal best capture is (not nesecarily biggest) but the fish you are proudest of catching.
so share the story with all of us
you can feel proud while we feel jelous
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HuggyB
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No pics (cant find them)
But landing a 4/5kg salmon on my 6wt fly rod. I thought I was gone at one stage there with it taking me well into the backing, but my mate skippered the dinghy and chased it down while I stripped like a madman.
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jay_burgess
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Date Joined: 18/08/05
30kg plus GT from Dampier in
30kg plus GT from Dampier in some brutal ground. Best fight I've ever had on a rod a reel. Half my twisted leader was shreaded through but it held up and I landed it on one strand.
Simon C
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From a fishing point - 38lb
From a fishing point - 38lb Sambo on 15lb line or my 98cm flattie on 2kg braid(looked like a shovel nose shark).
From a "oh WOW" standpoint, the Mackie in my avatar, went near on 50lb and looked awesome when it came up.
Kasey L.
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this one
I still have a few records I want to break before I think I can leave...
but I'm very satisfied with this one
(sorry to put it up again, I just think its a great shot - thanks andy!)
saltatrix
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Whats the rod your using
Whats the rod your using Kasey? Well and the rest of the gear too.
That would have been fun? Shallow or deep water? Nice day for it.
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tailor marc
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3 meter Sailfish from the
3 meter Sailfish from the rocks :)
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Colin Hay
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Longest fish was a sailfish caught off Dampier many moons ago
Favourite capture - a 25 kg Mulloway at Geraldton.
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allrounder
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A trout
It was a massive 30 cm rainbow(just joking about the massive part).We went down south near pembie and for two days we fished the treen creek .I cast to a tree and got a solid little hit but no hook up .
So tell me have you got your info from years on the water or hours on the internet?
D_DOUSH
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Either have to be the marlin
Either have to be the marlin on jig or the 30kg GT from the monites all within a week of each other!!!!
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allrounder
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MARLIN
The marlin i have caught came a close second with a few others .Just didn't have to work as hard for them.BILLFISH RULE
So tell me have you got your info from years on the water or hours on the internet?
carnarvonite
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Mulloway
After great consideration it has to be the 62lb clean on 15lb line mulloway from the rocks west of Parry's.Was a heck of a lot of top ones over many years to pick from
roberta
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Well Bob's
favourite would be his 2kg harlequinin 20 metres of water behind the stragglers
his biggest was 36kg sambo and carpet shark weighing in at 30kg plus both caught in a 100 metres of water by hand with 80lb hand line, took up most of the deck on the boat, I've got photos but can't scan to put up to show, caught out on the bank straight out from Garden Island.
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sharkfisherman
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my favourites r 28 kilo mack
my favourites r 28 kilo mack @sharkbay and 25kilo mulloway@eshed
Adam Gallash
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Marlin
Would have to be the 110kg marlin landed in my 4.1m tinny this July. 3 hours 45 on bottom fishing gear (only took 1 trolling rod) with a snapped live fibre in 3 pieces for the last 40 minutes of the fight in rising seas, lowering tide, an exhaused deckie after 2 hookups that dropped, and the double hookup which saw a 50kg billie dropped and the 110kg black stay connected. Was the best 35 minutes of trolling in oil slick seas I've experienced. That was after dropping a few reds and landing a smallish one. Also had no teasers, they were just purely hungry for plastic, was insane. Landed and raised plenty of marlin this season past, but nothing like this day.
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Faulkner Family
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some great fish tales my
some great fish tales
my most memorable would be a 7lb 6oz black bream on 4lb line down at canning bridge with a screaming currant using a rod that would have been 30 plus years old
my biggest fish other than a shark would be a 21kg mulloway ,again down at canning bridge on 18lb line with my sigma shakespear 080
RUSS & SANDY
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Jack
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Gamex
150lb Marlin.... Ya cant prepare yaself (physically) for the big buggers. 3 hrs of pain...
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mitch
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just for the record .jacks
just for the record .jacks made a typo .it was 150kg not pounds.i was there
one of my best catches was a 4to 5 kg dhui on squid gear i had pulled out it out of a mates shed to go squidding in geo bay after a few hours of drifting around for naff in the squid steaks the boys went for K.G s .not me ,biggest rusty hook in his box [about a 5/0 ]big hunk of bait and bam 10 minutes later with no net no gaff and about 15lb leader .i asked a mate to grab it and he went the eye gauge lift,, NO DICKHEAD ..5 minutes later i comfort lifted the dhu myself. the boat had been in that family for more than 15 years and that was 1 of 2 dhuies i caught in 3 days to christen the boat as far as dhuis go .
always in it just the depth that varies