Pinky
Submitted by dpost80 on Thu, 2008-06-19 21:12
Headed out late yesterday afternoon for a quick fish with the Father-in-law. Beaut night - little wind, not that cold, and a fair amount of light from the Full Moon. Bites were few and far between, but we both managed to pull up one of these; actually he got a smaller one as well. Used freshly caught squid for bait; and he gave me an awesome fight. I picked up a nice fat KG as well; gave it to my Mum before I could take a pic.
I think its a PB (don't normally measure my fish) - filleted it today and it weighed 5.1KG without blood, guts and gills, just over 800.
dpost80
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Male/Female?
How can you tell the difference between a male and female Pinky?
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Gonads
Nice fish.
Cut out the gonads and see if they have eggs or milt. The eggs are small and round and are difficult to see if the fish is immature. The female nad is generally round in shape whilst the male gonad is more strap like and should produce white milt when pressure is applied if it in relative spawning condition.
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feral1975
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Thats a nice fish there , is
Thats a nice fish there , is it just me or ar all of the big snapper coming in at the moment very skinny?
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That's a cracker of a
That's a cracker of a pinkie!
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Top Pinky
Lovelly good sized pinky for sure, congrats on your PB! Sounds like the fresh squid did the job, the old equation good bait=good fish.
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dpost80
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Under 30m
Thanks guys. That was caught out on the 5FB in less than 30 meters.
We also caught a few Sambo's; first time seen about 7 or so Sambo's follow a hooked one up - awesome sight. Last time I was out (and around that area) I caught the biggest Sambo I've ever seen. Judging by other people's stats on Sambo I'd say it would've pulled the scales down a fair way... guess what I didn't have with me... hell of a fight and a great memory anyway...
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35kgs
That's a pretty hefty Sa,bo Damo, the one that I caught and was posted in the June FWA Mag (page 11) weighed 20, and that gave me some curry - mind you that was in 15m. Still, 35 in 40 would have given you some pai for sure! Pitty no camera - it's always the way!
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Edited
Edited that kg figure until I do some further research Colin 2... ;) Losing bragging rights is the cost of not measuring your fish properly is suppose.... Lol
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Hey Danno
Mate,
, wasn't questioning the Kg - you can (and they have) certainly caught them that weight for sure - was just saying that 20 gave me grief, so 35 would have really hurt! Good fish mate, whatever the weight! 
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That's a great fish
Shows what sojme fresh bait can do. Well done.
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nice pinky and well dont on
nice pinky and well dont on the PB
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Cheers guys
Thanks for the comments fella's.
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Very nice fish, gotta be
Very nice fish, gotta be happy with that.