Colin Hay's 82 cm Flatrock Snook/Pike
Submitted by Colin Hay on Sun, 2009-10-04 14:58
I thought this might have been a herring when it first made a tenative enquiry of my bait, then it started peeling line from my Stradic reel and I knew this was no herring.
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Paul G
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What a ripper good snook
What a ripper good snook from the beach have had some that size out three mile but normaly only small ones inside the reef.
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Thanks Paul
I think there may have been a few around as Stu lost a good fish which bit him off and it looked like a similar sized snook.
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yeh thats a nice size snook
yeh thats a nice size snook but what u do with them lol ?? shit fish to eat
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You will have to ask Uncle Stu DhuBoi
He said he has eaten them before and they were ok, so I gave him that fish.
I do know the smaller ones make pretty good mulloway baits.
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Cracker snook there Colin
Cracker snook there Colin
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Thanks Craig
It ran hard early, but - unlike a tailor - gave up after that one hard run.
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Bait
Yep some good mulloway and snapper bait there.
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schecky got one this mornin
schecky got one this mornin on plastics at the lighthouse at hillaries that woulda gone maybe 70cm. gave him some curry bit it gave up pretty quickly
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He wouldn't have had much of the plastic
left I would think with the teeth those monsters have.
There certainly seems to be a few about.
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There in plague proportions
There in plague proportions in gero aswell ay
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Yes Rueben
They seem to hang around with the tailor schools a bit.
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Leemo
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yea
yea! a lot of the plastics were coming back with slit-like bite marks in them.
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I can imagine Liam
I wouldn't like one to get a grasp on a finger.
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it actually almost took a
it actually almost took a bit off my leg whne reub was swinging it up onto the rock. glad it was too buggered to do it lol. you wouldnt have much of a finger left after one of them is done with it!
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nice little bitey thing you
nice little bitey thing you have there , looks like fun trying to get those hooks out
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It wasn't too bad Russ and Sandy
Once it got past trying to have a taste of Bobo's nose it settled down pretty quickly - and the long nosed pliers made sure it didn't have a crack at my fingers.
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good fighters?
ive caught plenty of snook about 45cm and they hardly pull but i guess one that size would be alright