Your 2008 fishing highlight?
Submitted by Adam Gallash on Fri, 2008-12-19 09:45
With the new year coming, what was your fishing highlight of 2008? Been a couple of standouts for me, one was getting a sailfish, marlin and yf tuna in a few hours and some sick aerial and release shots. Then there'd be the 120kg marlin from the other week, but the best would have to be hooking 4 marlin in 30 minutes in crystal clear water and landing one which went well over 100kg in my 4m tinny that took 3.5 back breaking hours.
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Tony Halliday
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my first meter plus black jewie (mulloway)
Has to be my first meter plus and not the last!!! Balck Jewie ( mulloway) in the NT. Hooking a big steam train like that in shallow water was a fight and a half... hell they pull hard.
Having caught nine or so in three hours, we where stoked and released a good few big ones as well.... YES I do now have mango maddness and will be going back to NT Kakadu as soon as I can again...
Tony (pitty about the barra that all got away...
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Full-time piscatorial-idiot, in The Vines. "It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC) Greek poet.
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Kal
Posts: 160
Date Joined: 30/04/07
Getting the monkey off my back
Catching a squid with tapout in the boat ,gees his bad luck.
Bart-Man
Posts: 56
Date Joined: 26/09/08
Pumpkin Head
Got my first permit this year (about 750mm) what a beauty and on lure land based casting what a great memory. (Released of course) Got to get one of those measuring thingies. Bart-Man
Daisy
Posts: 789
Date Joined: 24/01/08
Two Barra (85 and 87) on SPs
Two Barra (85 and 87) on SPs in 10 minutes from a very local landbased spot last Wednesday morning. No camera (typical!!!) but my eldest daughter was there to witness it. STOKED!!!
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WODF
Posts: 553
Date Joined: 16/10/08
Carnarfin 2008
Would have to be Carnarfin earlier this year. Seen some horse fish, landed a couple of PB's aswell as witnessing some spectacular weather, was an awesome week.
Bring on 2009!
"holy sh!t, did you see that?" haha
Andy Mac
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A tie
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Stevef
Posts: 478
Date Joined: 27/02/08
My 1200mm SB Tuna and a heap
My 1200mm SB Tuna and a heap of big salmon caught on my Birthday. A beuatiful calm day in May and spent a sensational morning on the water with my wife catching good fish.
Sashimi was good afterwards also
Steve
damo6230
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Date Joined: 07/06/08
PB Spanish Mackie
in exi last March (35kgs).
apart from that I have not been able to fishs much this year (and into next) seeing I got collected by a car riding my pushie so I am glad to have not broken my neck so i can fish again.
fishcrazy
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cod
think mine would have to be 17kg greyband i got out with tim
Pete D
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Looking into the eye of a
Looking into the eye of a Black Marlin (for the very first time) whilst holding the bill for Ryan. Then 20 minutes later battling my first Black Marlin myself
Cheers Pete
jay_burgess
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Date Joined: 18/08/05
For me it's between Rowley
For me it's between Rowley Shoals in July with Reel Teaser and my 30kg+ GT from Dampier.
Albee Mangles
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Date Joined: 20/05/08
First Good Fish on a Kayak!!!
landing that first snapper, just over 80cm, bout 7kg, really got the blood boiling. First Mulloway from the yak extremelly close second.
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Gully
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Ooooohhh tough one, Would
Ooooohhh tough one,
Would have to be getting my good mate Bucks his first billy. Was a good moment thats for sure.
Also spearing my 30kg mackie freediving was pretty special
Goatch
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Date Joined: 03/07/07
Getting my first
Saily at Gamex this year then picking up my 2nd one within an hour .
Just one more cast , honest !!!
shabba
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mine was a 22kg dhu, (
mine was a 22kg dhu, ( thanks again ryan ) it was an awsome day on the water with plenty of quality fish released.............
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laugh
At hillarys watching some hot shit boat owner drive his big flash boat onto his trailer....his mate yells to him" you right?" Skipper yells.." just get going" and thats when i got to see a nice etec bouncing up the notches of the boat ramp...and bits coming off everywhere.
I think i might of pissed him off when laughed at him and said oh well you have a short leg now aye!
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Vander72
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watchin some
south african make a fool of himself and listenin to the mad romanian want to kill him.....hahahahah what a night.......
then i suppose catchin my pb bream under the narrows....
SO MANY FISH.....SO FEW SICKIES!
Pete D
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Thanks Vander. I had just
Thanks Vander. I had just completed theraphy for that night. The nightmares will now return with your reminder
...so will TH's
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Tony Halliday
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be affraaaaaid very affraid!
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"It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC) Greek poet.
Supporter of Meals on Reels & The Wally Weight
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it
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"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
uncle
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onslow
would have to be the trip to onslow staying with BJ,not just for the great fishing and fish also the great experience of diving for crays,catching muddies and just the fantastic side of nature,turtles laying,whales everywhere,the pristine islands etc.
Fast fish rule!
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Getting to go out fishing with a lot of different Fishwrecked
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roberta
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My first dhuiefish
screaming to Bob I'm stuck it wont move, well you can imagine the language, (he's so nice to me) you silly $#@!%^$$ women you've got a big fish, reel it in. God I thought I had Australia on my hook, 12kgs from 90metres when you aren't used to pulling up that far and that was 11yrs ago. Plus it was the first fish on the boat, so somebody was muttering in the back ground. You know what I mean fellas, when the wife or deckie gets the first fish.
Bob's best fishing trips in the Club was four off shore championships with just him on board.
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9.5 kg dhuie caught on
9.5 kg dhuie caught on fillet of rainbow trout off 2rocks
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sherbert
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First to the last time
I fish with matty, Hooking 5 double headers of dhuie and a 12.5 kg one as well
And i cant remember all the other fish i have hooked as well
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steve
Born to fish forced to work
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mako magic
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going with paul and jesse to
going with paul and jesse to exmouth for my first trip up there and getting paul onto his first marlin and raising 12 billies on 4 hours
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connors
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going to exmouth and
going to exmouth and catching my first marlin and the next day watching dad get his first sailfish what great trip
PilbaraBrad
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Barra nationals
And our team boating the biggest barra of the comp, a 105cm beast!
soupster51
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Warship
Without a doubt for me it would be catching a Spanish Mackeral off the back of HMAS Anzac and getting the skipper to stop the ship so I could bring it in. Awesome.
Three days without it and I get a little jumpy
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roberta
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soupie
I would have loved to have been there to watch that, fantastic, Oh Captain I've got a big Mackeral on, can you pull the tub up so I can land it, classic.
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Watto069
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87cm Barra. First one and
87cm Barra. First one and couldn't have been happier since I had to travel to pentacost river to get it
So many fishing spots. Not enough sickies!!!!!!!
Paul G
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Yer im with Matt was a great
Yer im with Matt was a great trip and to get my first Marlin was a hoot.i think that would be a hard one to beat for a while, but im trying .
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SamC
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Again definatley getting my
Again definatley getting my first Marlin in April of Exmouth on boutime!
Cheers,
Sam
Cheers,
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schecky
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first golden trev :) not
first golden trev :)
not much but ment somehting to me
ribar
Posts: 27
Date Joined: 30/11/08
first dhuie on a good day
first dhuie on a good day with a nice mixed bag of 3 duies, a few nice sized blackass, kg's, snapper, baldies skippy and sambos! best day out!
Neander
Posts: 520
Date Joined: 23/10/07
Suppose getting onto a few
Suppose getting onto a few dhuies and pinkies in my year of boating.
Magic conditions and 3 nice fish each and on our way is a good enough reason to go out again.
alfred
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Magic Mahi on the last FAD
Magic Mahi on the last FAD trip for the year, measuring in at 164cm.
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Leemo
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first stingray earlier this
first stingray earlier this year at around 25 kg's .
all the other stingies ive got aswell
busselton heaps of fish and superb weather. it almost glassed off on the jetty
formerly Irish
take a woman fishing and she will want to learn, teach a women to fish and she will outfish you for the rest of your life!
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Dean
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for us, the first day we
for us, the first day we wnet out to the 100's and we had caught sweet F all in the morning and caught 14 snapper and a couple of hooter reds in 1 1/2 hours.
First dive out going for crays with matt!
Rodrat
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Exmouth in april
Catching my first Tuna in the gulf at exxy.
April 09 hoping for my first marlin! fingers crossed
Fishing isn't a matter of life or death, it's much more serious than that!!!
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mitch
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watching my then 6 year old
watching my then 6 year old struggle to land his first coral trout ,pulled from a 6m bommie .bloody lump in my throat bigger than ularu.
also finaly catching a marlin out of my own boat .
always in it just the depth that varies
Kelvin8r
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Just snuck it in
Would have to be this weekend, my first barra, bloody fantastic animals. Can see why the boys get so passionate about their barra fishing
PilbaraBrad
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2008 highlight
yeah have to change mine from the daly and the barra nationals to this weekend
Landing my first meter barra, and probably guiding so many first timers to their first ever barra, adam, my brother, fozz, damo and now sheldon. Good stuff fellas
HuggyB
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not so much a fish in particular
but getting my Furuno FCV620. Its literally opened a whole new world.
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thebear
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2008
Monties, Monties, Monties
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Pete D
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UPDATE
Swimming with spawning Pinkies yesterday - absoluting awesome experience and a case of being in the right place at the right time. Report and pics to come...when Ryan wakes up!
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yeh yeh!
haha....more like when i get time, the shops flatout at the mo......will do soon
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Mine!
Eyeballing a big school of spawning pink snapper doing their thing in the wild and being able to swim with them was truely awesome and my highlight for 2008 for sure!
Thanks Pete & Shabba, was great to see your captures also!
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Marion Reef, Coral Sea, live
Marion Reef, Coral Sea, live aboard Mothership Odyssey, with Nomad fishing adventures back in May.
Webby
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My first sail fish during
My first sail fish during the billfish comp. and im still smiling from my 86 barra i got on saturday. ah and fishing with mahi mahi charters from coral bay, getting some big job fish and a pb pinkie
I live with fear every day... sometimes she lets me go fishing.