Match the hatch- placcy vs eel
Submitted by Lucky Tim on Wed, 2009-10-07 17:58
I found a bit of reef today while chasing sailfish and my first and only drop I pulled this fella up on my placcy. I was lucky to get him in with a good 6' of shark hot on his tail and once onboard the trout coughed up this 30cm eel- check it out next to my placcy. The match was a fluke as I've never seen these eels before.
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damo6230
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old age fishing wisdom there Tim
old age fishing wisdom there Tim
DieHard
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nice catch mate! ps. its
nice catch mate!
ps. its another reggie junior !
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jay_burgess
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eel or baby sea snake,
eel or baby sea snake, Tim?
Nice trout, was he legal?
PilbaraBrad
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sashimi tonight brudda???
sashimi tonight brudda???
Lucky Tim
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No sashimi matey, we just
No sashimi matey, we just knocked off a few macky kebabs and potato salad so the trout is now frozen for another night.
I thought it was an eel Jay, it had the eel looking mouth but haven't seen a sea snake that small so can't be 100%. And the trout was around 55cm, the eel is 30cm.
Colin Hay
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I think new FW sponsors Bozos have a few plastics that look
a bit like that eel/or snake.
Great fish by the way Tim.
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flagpole
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nice trout
lovely fish mate good to see the placcys at work
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definately a strange thing
definately a strange thing to be up chucking , but at least you were using what looked like the food, well done on the nice trout too
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