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 Caught my first big mulloway

Thu, 2012-06-14 00:31

 Caught my first big mulloway beach fishing on my local beach in yanchep at 10 am the sucka took 2 people to lift to my car and weighed in at about 35kg

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That's a belter of a Mulla

Thu, 2012-06-14 07:30

That's a belter of a Mulla mate. what'd you get it on.bait gear etc. Family and friends will be sniffing around for a feed.

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great fish mate well done

Thu, 2012-06-14 08:18

great fish mate well done from the surf........ 35 kg though?

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He might have been using

Thu, 2012-06-14 09:09

He might have been using this

http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/recreational/saltwater/weigh#Mulloway--br

 

Ripper Mulla from the shore mate, and from Yangas too, awesome. Still to get a Mulla bigger than 60cm myself :(

 

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 Who cares what the weight

Thu, 2012-06-14 10:55

 Who cares what the weight was :) awesome fish and love the spots along the lateral line. Turn it into two fish off the same spot and you might have yourself a pattern. Be sure to remember the details of your capture for future records i.e date, time, moon and tide, barometric pressure and bait. Don't throw the carcass away, bury the head for the jewels or even take the jaws out if you are confident doing so. Well done again.

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Great fish mate I gotta get

Thu, 2012-06-14 11:04

Great fish mate I gotta get myself one of those one day!!!

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Nice one.....I'd say 35lb =

Thu, 2012-06-14 12:07

Nice one.....

I'd say 35lb = ~15kg would be the correct estimate?

 

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look at this

Thu, 2012-06-14 12:32

 looks bigger in this photo

http://fishwrecked.com/image/my-mulloway-35kg

awsome fish mate

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 Hey everyone thanks for the

Thu, 2012-06-14 14:22

 Hey everyone thanks for the comments the fish weighed at 29kg after the end of the day after being gutted and sitting in a salty brime in the bath tub in the backyard then hanging up on a hook for atleast 2 hours before weighed and measured at 1.35metres this fish wasnt very long just a reallly fat stocky fish and was much bigger than you think in person. I was using a mulie with 4o gang hooks and a 5oz star sinker just leaving it out watching for the right bites to come along and what i thought was a tailor turned out to be a mulloway because it was spooling line out like crazy at first i didnt think much of it tho thought it was a bloody stingray. cheers

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not bagging you out just a curious question

Thu, 2012-06-14 17:38

but why would you put it in a brine then hang it on a hook for two hours?? is there method behind your madness?

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 Yer i put the head behing my

Thu, 2012-06-14 14:24

 Yer i put the head behing my fence in the bush for same keepings so the ants can eat around it and do the hard work of collecting the the jewels and so to bad for this weather tho

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plus i caught a 10kg one up

Thu, 2012-06-14 14:27

plus i caught a 10kg one up past two rocks a week later i know i was lucky and that fish was not even a fight compared to this thing my big one took me 40minutes to bring in the only reason i probs didnt break my rod was because there was a whole heap of swell coming through and i brought it in on that.

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 you know what they say once

Thu, 2012-06-14 14:27

 you know what they say once you catch a mulloway they seem to be easier to catch after that

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 the easier and quicker way

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:21

 the easier and quicker way to remove the jewels is to look and see where the housing for them is and just crack it open with a flat head screwdriver. no need to wait and put up with the stench of rotting fish, unless you want to piss off the neighbours.

also as mentioned, doesnt look 35kg by any means . 35lb maybe. either way it is stil a nice fish.

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Have you got

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:10

any more pics of it?

I've looked at the 5 pics of it on here and still can't see a 35kg fish?

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Ripper of a fish mate have to

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:19

Ripper of a fish mate have to be stoked with that, Whats the record for W.A?

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 why not look it up youself.

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:30

 why not look it up youself. not hard to do. just google fishing records. 

just looked it up and the record is 33.100 kg caught back in 1977

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 Yer the thing about all the

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:31

 Yer the thing about all the photos you couldnt tell how big it was for sure theyre all taken on a ipad i wish i had a camera on the beach when i caught it then i properly would have let him go. ill see if i can find any other photos cheers yer i dont have any other neigbours behind me just yanchep bush which is a plus

 

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OK buddy

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:38

have a look at this Mulloway

Big Beach Mulloway

that fish was @70lbs or 32kg.

Slightly bigger than yours???

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bloomin heck now thats a

Thu, 2012-06-14 17:34

bloomin heck now thats a mulloway!

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 yer that does look bigger

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:40

 yer that does look bigger than mine ahah yer but i know it was 28kg gutted later on because we put it on the scales then and it sat on 60lbs 

 

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In that case

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:43

i'd be getting your scales checked

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it looked alot like this on the beach

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:43

 

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fkn hooter!!!  

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:46

fkn hooter!!!

 

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Sheesh

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:46

Who cares, its a cracker

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either way cracker of a croaker!!

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:50

great effort!

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good work mate

Thu, 2012-06-14 16:54

sweet. what a great fish,   fish of a lifetime.

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Great fish

Thu, 2012-06-14 17:06

Well done mate thats a great catch , mabe your scales have not been strecthed like that in a while and just need to be checked. (135cm = 26kg on competitive weight charts). It one of the better mulla's iv seen coming  out of Perth waters - top effort , Wish one of  that size would come chew on my bait.

Best of all u managed to catch it at 10am - i would of been back home already, never fish past 8am unless catching bait.

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 Does it matter if the scale

Thu, 2012-06-14 17:31

 Does it matter if the scale were standing scales because that could be it

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No matter what the weight was

Thu, 2012-06-14 17:35

No matter what the weight was im stoked as never thought id see a fish that big personally let alone catch one stoked cheers

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Lots of jealous people 

Thu, 2012-06-14 18:22

Lots of jealous people 

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What a fucking joke hey and

Thu, 2012-06-14 18:31

What a fucking joke hey and I'm sick of seeing it all the time.
Seriously who gives a shit

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Good fish young fella. I for

Thu, 2012-06-14 18:34

Good fish young fella. I for one dont give a shit how much it weighed but its definitely a good size fish!

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Nice fish whatever it

Thu, 2012-06-14 18:39

Nice fish whatever it weighed, though they do seem to look a lot bigger than they weigh.

Beautiful looking fish straight out of the ocean.

A diamond encrusted gold bar.

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thats a big mulla!!!! i would

Thu, 2012-06-14 19:02

thats a big mulla!!!! i would have been so happy with that! good on ya 

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 thanks guys for all the good

Thu, 2012-06-14 20:16

 thanks guys for all the good comments much appreciated, I would love to see some of the pictures of other mulloway pulled out of the metro shores over the years i bet there would be thumpers

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have many people had luck

Thu, 2012-06-14 20:18

have many people had luck fishing from the yanchep shores i live there and have been beach fishing for about a year now and would like to see other peoples catches from anywhere around here.