15 Pound Snapper

15 Pound Snapper

15 Pound Snapper just off the Southern coast of Dominican Republic. 30 Minute battle, it went into a cave and it took some serious manuvering to get it out. It REALLY did not want to come up.


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beasty

Thu, 2007-01-18 10:15

Thats a pretty beasty looking fish Clalo. Did you get him jigging or on bait?

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Jigging, on a Hopper Jig,

Thu, 2007-01-18 10:20

Jigging, on a Hopper Jig, it's like the Shimano Butterfly jig but comes riged already and 1/3 the price. ETREMELY efferctive. 2 people fishing live bait and 1 with this jig and the jig consitantly caught much more fish than live bail. I'M HOOKED ON IT!!!

This is called a Dog Snapper

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Nice fish

Thu, 2007-01-18 13:31

Dont get that place dirty cleaning that fish lol
GREAT FISH

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What size and colour jig?

Thu, 2007-01-18 14:00

Those Hopper jigs look pretty cool and would be good for big snapper and Dhuies in my opinion. Might have to see what is on the local tackle store shelves that's similar to it.

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Nice snapper there clalo.

Thu, 2007-01-18 19:34

Nice snapper there clalo. I'm with sherbet. Place looks a bit clean to have a stinky fish in...

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No Mess

Fri, 2007-01-19 02:29

This fish went straight to the restaurant where they are prepairing it whole in the brick oven, no mess in my kitchen.

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i bet

Fri, 2007-01-19 04:56

I bet that went down well with a wine or afew beers

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looking at the broad tail on

Fri, 2007-01-19 06:20

looking at the broad tail on that fish, it would have put up one hell of a fight. what rod, reel combo do you prefer to use in D.R waters ?

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The rod used was a Shimano

Fri, 2007-01-19 06:51

The rod used was a Shimano Trevala Casting rod (TVC70ML) with an Avet 6/4 SX reel. 30 pound braid and 80 pound leader and I still couln't stop it, it continued to swim down until it went into a cave, that's were the struggle began.

Usually people use electric reels with really heavy line for deep drops but I found a shollower honey hole at 300-350 yards depth at a 4 minute boat ride from my marina!!

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4 minutes to 300-350yards

Fri, 2007-01-19 14:58

4 minutes to 300-350yards deep... Bloody hell

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