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Kgs
Submitted by dj dvd on Sat, 2013-10-12 12:59 Been having a bit of luck with the kgs lately
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Another family trip to Exmouth...
Submitted by Wannafish on Fri, 2013-10-11 14:01Due to the wet and cold weather the South West has had (and is still having), we decided to load up the car and boat and have the first week of the school holidays in Exmouth... The weather the whole time was between 28 - 34, and although the wind was up at times, we managed to get out at Tantabiddi a couple of times, and the Bay of Rest when the wind was blowing. The rest of the time we mucked around on the gulf beaches, swam in the caravan park pool, explored the west side, etc.
On the fishing side of things, I speared a few Tuskies and Trout in the gulf, and we caught some good Rankin, Spangleds, etc on the west side, but sharks and possibly big cod were a problem. I lost 2 lures with good Macks attached due to the sharks, before managing to land one.
Attached are a few photos....
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Cockburn Sound Squid
Submitted by gibbs on Fri, 2013-10-11 09:27The squid are there you jut need to put in some work to get them. I fished about 2-3 hours and landed 4 squid and a tasty cuttlefish. They where all caught within an hour of each other on PINK!
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Back from the Montes.. Pic Heavy
Submitted by outdoinit on Thu, 2013-10-10 19:21Hi All, Yeah we had a great trip and weather was good for all but one day, (that day we explored in and around the islands and done a bit of free diving. (we got 2 mangrove jacks free diving and the biggest was 5.5kg, Stonker, but forgot pics.. Duh)
All the guys caught good fish and all had a ball, but I was lucky enough to end up with the 3 biggest fish of the trip..
1, Mackie (Nearly got spooled by him and had to chase him around in the boat) I could not lift it, hence why I am sitting on the Gunnels, we reckon it was 40kg+ (took 2 of us to lift it out of the water..) Released
2, Was a good Coral trout that went 77cm, all on soft plastic.. Yeah Baby.. LOL
3, Was a Brassy trevally that was too heavy for our scales and too long for our stickers (We reckon approx 1050mm), I caught it out of the Tinny and on my little overhead bait caster rod, yes the one I usually use for squid.. ;-D, also had to chase it down so I didn’t get spooled.. No Pics of that one as I didn’t take the bloody Camera out.. Released
Mind you the young blokes Long nose Emperor went 89cm so I suppose that takes 3rd spot... (That will get a bite for sure) LOL
I didn’t catch any Reds though, but everyone else did.. Never mind..
As for trip info the basics were - 530kms done in big boat with the total fuel used of 630 ltrs..
In the Dingy we used a total of 40 ltrs and also ran a 2 kva gennie 24/7 which also used approx 40 ltrs..
As for that poor coral trout being smashed by sharks, unfortunately that was one of many fish that got smashed, the sharks were just ridiculous, you would find a spot on the sounder and drop over and boat a couple of fish then drop over any would not get them 2 feet of the bottom before the sharks would smash them.. :-( Overall rating for the Montes, (7 1/2 out of 10) IMO, it was good to go there spend a week doing what we done but would I go back.. Mmmm NO, Abrolhos for me.. ;-)
Some trip pics just from our boat below..
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Manji/Pemby area update
Submitted by bardzman on Tue, 2013-10-08 14:07Hi all,
Just spent 4 days in the manji/pemby area searching for trout and reddies, so I thought id better put up a bit of info for anyone heading down their. First up the rivers are flowing fast - very fast lures were getting ripped along the rivers at an amazing speed, making it difficult to fish. The rivers are right up and most are hard to get to, river banks that were used to fish from are not existant. Ground conditions are VERY soft under foot making just getting to the spots interesting. Mozzies are about in force and snakes are starting to venture out. Offroad/gravel roads are water logged so take care. We fished the Walggarup, warren, lefroy, donnelly and smith brook for not much luck we even loaded the kids and mrs' s and fished big brook dam for zilch. My friends who we stayed with took me to some private dams ( they got permission as they have property aswell ) still no good. we did manage a few reddies and trout for the 4 days....bit dissapointing really. But the areas we visited, the scenery and good freinds made it all worth while.
Everyone we spoke to said, and I quote " give it a month and the fishing will go off " also... the locals reckon it should be a bumper marron season.
Hope this helps any heading down that way...iv just got to get time off in 4 weeks.
Thanks all Bardzman
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Lancelin Fishing
Submitted by Thomo 85 on Tue, 2013-10-08 00:39G'day fisho's!
Heading up to Lano on the weekend, thinking of drowning some bait off the beach/jetty. Haven't fished the area in a while, same old fair as usual around the joint? Any tips, idea's anyone would like to share would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers
Thomo
Port Kennedy
Submitted by BoozeFishSnooze on Sat, 2013-10-05 02:20Hey guys, went down to Port Kennedy friday arvo to try flicking some soft plastics for the first time, using a zman grub 2" in bloodworm I hooked up to my first fish on a lure.(not including some small squid on jigs) Before this I was sort of thinking catching fish on lures is a myth even though seeing people get fish on lures in the past. Other than the flatty I hooked(released and swam off strong after the picture) I got some trumpeter with some of them being not even 2.5 times the size of my plastic (often foul hooked but all released and swam away healthy)
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Shark bay Denham jetty
Submitted by brucedog1 on Fri, 2013-10-04 22:33Just been camping up shark bay, awesome place if you havnt been yet. If you are planning on tripping up that way can recomend giving the jetty ago just after dark for pinkies. Great for the kids and size pushing mid 40s to 50s. Would have landed 12 to 15 fish tonight and could have kept at least 2.
Its probably no secret but handy to know if you want to have some fun with the kids.
Bait was yellow fin whiting from the local tackle / servo shop.
Cheers
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todays report
Submitted by sammy85 on Fri, 2013-10-04 20:24with the boss giving the go ahead for the day off me and two mates headed off two rocks in chase of dhuies and sambos while hoping to break my drought I have been going through lately. After taking off from the ramp and one of my deckies started peeeling a banana and eating it I wasnt feeling too confident. Since putting a new sounder in 2 months ago I thought it would be easier to catch fish but has been harder, today was a good way to break the bad luck.
after finding a new spot in the 40's I picked up a nice dhuie on an ima ro jig probly around the 6kg mark. Followed by an agressive little dhuie just under that hit my jig 6 times before I hooked it. soon after dave pulled up a nice dhu around similar size.
with our dhu limit reached we went to the sambo spot where we jigged up sambos for the next 3 hours with triple hook up's every drift. no monsters with most around the sub 10kg mark. the whales put ona nice show for us about 100m from the boat. also caught a gold spot trevally which surprised us! with the last drift called we did it in stlye with another triple hook up and with my brother dean pulling up a horse and his pb sambo as a rough guess around the low to mid 20's.
all up was a great day on the water with a lot of hi 5's all around.
thanks for reading
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kalbarri with the kids
Submitted by james1989 on Fri, 2013-10-04 18:39just got back from a couple days fishing in kalbarri. First day was a bit slow with only a few tailor bream and whiting in the rivermouth in the dinghy. Ended up catching a snapper in the river mouth on the bream gear it went 67cm was awesome fun. The second day i went out the river mouth out into to blue trawled around picked up a couple nice pinkies on deep divers but no macks.ended up berleying up in about 10meters of water started to hook a few more pinkies but i kept getting sharked. This morning was going to get out one more time but was to ruff to take dinghy out the river mouth. Next time im bring a bigger boat :)
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long weekend fish at beaches south of kalbarri and murchisen river
Submitted by Callum24 on Fri, 2013-10-04 18:28took a extra day off and shot up near kalbarri to chase a mulloway or 2 we fished 60 hours with a bait in the hole consantly taken turns of snoozin and fishin friday night was wobbygong night must have landed bout 20 we were rewarded with a mulla on saterday arvo bout 4 and then sunday i was woken up with me mate tapin on the window with a 76cm pinkie and a mulla simlar size to mine the tailor were also on the chew most around45-55cm slabed up to quick for a photo with a couple big mullas lost in the shorey (big swell) and unstopables every day even on 80lb braid. skippy slabs and fresh tailor done the damage and the 55g halco twisty
when the weather went bad went up the murchisen and got heaps of bream 25-35cm and heaps of baby mullas 25-35cm also smoked on the bream gear by a few bigger models the odd tailor was caught and after an explore with the torches theres penty of bait aroun prawns garfish mullet an amazingly heathy river
156 cans of piss later we were on our way home lookin forward to a wash and a feed of fish the followin day went to chop them up after wok on my last fillet to take off a slip and 10 stitches later cut tenends the whole bit i was off to hostpital and out of action for 2weeks what a bloody turkey i've been choppin these buggers up for 12 years
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Wednesday Sambo
Submitted by craigb on Fri, 2013-10-04 11:08Wednesday was a slow day but I managed to boat this samson. My biggest so far. We didnt get a measurement as I wanted to return him as soon as possible. Caught him in the 40 s off ocean reef.
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Dawesville cut
Submitted by liam97 on Thu, 2013-10-03 17:27Has anyone fished the cut recently? Will probably be staying in mandurah for a few days next week, keen for a fish!
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Harvey water level
Submitted by grantarctic1 on Wed, 2013-10-02 13:38I went down to Harvey on Tuesday morning for a quick fish to find the water level very high. Most of the spots i fish were not accessible any more with the roads leading straight into the water .
I didnt catch any fish and only saw a few rises all morning. But i thought i would get a couple pictures to show the water level around the dam.
Nearly every road i turned down ended up looking like this.
The water looked realy good but i think it is still too cold and there are no insects hatching or flying around yet. If we get a few warm days in a row the trout should start to feed on the surface.
Here is the boat ramp with the water getting very close to the top .
Altho its high , going by the dam wall there is still a bit of room left to fill right up . And the water is rising quite fast with all the streams running well.
Now i thought i would show an area i fish alot, and then add some photo,s from a few years ago when the water was very low. In this photo i am looking across towards the road i come in on when i fish over there.
Here is a zoomed in look from the same spot. Note the road leading in towards the water.
Here is a picture of the same spot, from the same angle that i took a few years ago when the water was very low.
What i hope it shows, is there is alot of unseen structure around the dam. But some areas a very plain in contrast to this location. I fished here a for a few years and had no idea there was a road running right through the spot that kept producing fish.
In the next picture i have panned to the left looking at the causeway. The white rocks are a great platform to to stand on and fly fish when the water is just over them .
And here i have gone over to the other side looking back at were i parked .
Now the water is right up into the tree line and you cant drive into that whole area.
So if you are thinking about goint to Harvey for a fish, you might want to take a dinghy or cannoe. Otherwise you will be limited to a few spots like the boat ramp, or you can walk along the causeway,s . I cant wait for it to get a bit warmer and the water to start dropping. I find every year the conditions change alot, and its worth doing some recon trips at different times of the year to scout out stucture that might hold fish.
Cheers Grant ..
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what has been happening busselton way
Submitted by dale 308 on Tue, 2013-10-01 13:33any one got any reports from busso way of the beach jetty or boat cheers
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Lancelin Tailor
Submitted by Browndog on Mon, 2013-09-30 20:12Hey all.
Travelled to a mates place in Lancelin to watch the GF. Had e aquick session off the beach on sundown Saturday evening for one good fish, 44cm. Another hooked up but lost. My mate landed the fish, we perhaps could have done better but as we had a few bevvies during the game we forgot to take a torch :( Still, was filleted and eaten within an hour, very tasty.
Next morning we took the tinny out with the kids for a quick troll, 2 landed and one lost boatside, all in 10 minutes. Swell was crazy.
Photo (if it works) shows the two from the boat, slightly under the 44cm from the day before, but much fatter!
Cheers,
BD.
Jurien bay Long weekend
Submitted by Bodie on Mon, 2013-09-30 19:33Stayed up in Green head over the long weekend, but due to the swell the ramp didnt look too friendly and a lot of sand and weed so fairly shallow.
Ended up heading back to Jurien and heading out from there.
As most probably know, the weather wasnt the best, but we did get out Saturday and Sunday. Saturday had little wind in the morning but a fair amoount of swell. Sunday had a little more wind and big swell, biggest i have been out in! Sounder was showing over 5m variances frrom top to bottom of the waves. Ended up with an engine issue on Sunday so the day got cut a little short as i could only put around as one engine wouldnt go above 3k revs without the engine oil light coming on...likely a sensor.
Anyway Saturday was the best of the day, being my first trip out of JB, i didnt have any ground so just winged it in some locations. 2nd drift resulted in the best fish of the trip, a 11-12 kilo Dhu for Laurie...not bad for your first ever dhu fish.
Managed a few more fish, a reasonable pinky, couple BB's and another dhu, but did end up landing 9 dhus for the day. Pinky was a good story, one mate carl snagged the bottom and snapped the line close to the tip of his rod. Next drift he hooks up and starts the wind up with a fish on. As he gets closer to the top we couldnt see any fish, and he was actually tangled with his old rig. Being a little pissed off he starts to untangle and the says 'i think theres a fish on my old rig!' and he brings his old rig with like a hand line and sure enough there is a pinky on it! All ass that was!
Sunday was a different story, with engine issues our day was cut short, but did end up with another BB and a good baldie. It was pretty swelly out wide.
Ended up Sunday arvo having a round of 9 holes at Green head golf course...that was an experience, sand greens and weed fairways!
All in all, not too bad for the weather we had, will definitely be up there again for another crack!
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Last Snapper Hunt - Cockburn Sound 27/09
Submitted by jarrid on Mon, 2013-09-30 08:41Had the opportunity to get a fish in before the ban Friday night. I have recently done alright at a particular spot with my brother (Rocktron on here) and as a result of that my old man has been extremely jealous, especially given his gross incompetence and inability to get a snapper in the metro area for the past couple of decades.
So, after messing with my old man as to where our secret spot was we headed out to some new ground pretty close to where we wanted to be at sun down. We tried for a while for nothing despite fish on the sounder. We told him it was the spot, then that it wasn't the spot, then we told him to get his rain coat on as he was going to get wet getting to the spot, then to drop his line because we were on the spot etc etc, was good fun actually.
Eventually we got to the spot but didn't tell him it was the one. We have done well there on baits and my brother and I thought we would have a crack at the soft plastics. Can't remember if it was the first or second cast but rocktron (Tim) hooked up. Soon after, ie just after I had netted and as he was unhooking his 75cm pinkie, I hooked up on a plastic as well. Not long after that the old man was on to his first metro pinkie. He called it for a metre but is full of shit and it eventually came over the side at a slightly less than a metre 65cm. I had left my plastic on the bottom to net the old mans fish, and we agreed to move to try and find another spot given we had a fish each. When winding in I "accidentally" hooked into and landed another. So we decided to move and take a few photos of the four landed on the way to try another spot a bit closer in to shore.
So tried another spot and had plenty of fish on the sounder but no joy again. Tried for another hour or so but no luck. Eventually decided to head back to secret spot after constant pestering from old man and brother...
Long story short, got another one on bait for the old man, one for the brother on plastic in the pitch black, and another for me (released) on bait again pulling in after agreeing that we were done.
At the end of the day we ended up with seven between about 65 and 75. Rocktron claims to have caught the biggest two but I remember it differently. We got two on seven inch gulps, two on five inch z-mans, two on squid and one on a scalie. Pretty random. At this spot where we got them all we would have fished for less than half an hour. Unfortunately we have still only caught fish at the one spot but we will keep looking for new ground after the ban. So that takes this spot to a grand total of 11 fish from 3 visits, and every other spot to a grand total of zero...
Photo of Dad quickly grabbing the bigger fish which was caught by his son.
Great photo taken by the old man. Ironically he used to be a professional photographer
Dad showing how to balance in a small boat. Its important to keep your feet as close together as possible and preferably wedged into the side of the tinny so there is no opportunity to try and save yourself when you fall. Luckily the bait board saved him and more importantly that he didn't lose the fish
Shot of me, apologies for reflective pants
The final haul. Half the fish are already eaten and the remainder are safely in the freezer to be consumed over the coming weeks/months.
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Swan Breaming
Submitted by brg on Sun, 2013-09-29 19:48Hey guys caught a few good bream today and one pig middle swan.cheers BRG
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Metro tailor??
Submitted by dan.the.man on Sun, 2013-09-29 11:25Just wondering if anyone has tried or had any luck to report for metro tailor at the moment especially with lures,not looking for spots just if there on the chew at the moment or not and how's the weed situation cheers guys,
dan
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Port Douglas, QLD 28/09/2013
Submitted by nicko_cairns on Sat, 2013-09-28 16:43Hi, full report to follow later. 83.5cm Saddletail Seaperch (Large Mouth Nannygai), have submitted to the record holders page although I haven't hit the 50 posts yet.
Report later as I'm stuffed sorry! Few more rumbos then sleep! My PB is 86cm from memory, so almost a new PB.
6.8kg cleaned, so no monster but not a bad fish. I give this about two weeks before Bunny smashes it! He's caught a lot better, just hasn't got the measured photos (that I know of).
Cheers,
Nick.
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Cockburn Sound 27/9
Submitted by sunshine on Sat, 2013-09-28 11:26Thought I would give the sound a bash giving it is nearing the end of the snapper season, launched solo as a mate let me down at the last minute and avoided the crowd around the D9 and instead headed north of Woodmans seeking to fish the narrower northern channel edge.
First problem - the 8120 wouldnt find a gps signal - hmmmm that is a new one - so without a gps relied on the sounder and channel markers to find a spot, very clearly there was a fair swell running as it was actually breaking on the very edge of the channel in the 4 metre stuff this side of Carnac so headed north of that arriving at only a little after midday
Dropped a burley bucket (more on that later) and choped a whole block of mulies for progressive burleying
Being my usual stupid self fished with three rods, skippy fillet and mulie on two and unweighted mulie or scalie on the third, never expected much interest this early so settled back with a coffee and roll for lunch, murphies prevailed and two rods went off on bait runner pealing line of both at a rapid rate - picked up the first set and put pressure on - hmm clearly not a ray as I could feel distinct tail beats of a strong fish and was continuing to loose line - as I was well clear of obstructions I reset the first in the holder and picked up the second and engaged the reel, uhoh another fish but with the distictive feel of a good snapper - - I'll go for this one ! good fight later the inevitable happens, the snapper (i'de seen it clearly before it saw the boat and bolted for a seond good run cross lines (braid) with the other rod with the fish on which was tight and still taking line. Tried my best to untangle the mackrame ? that had somehow formed but to no avail and the snapper line was now knoted and wasn't moving either way. Picked up the other rod and afer a few munites had a madly rolling 1.8 metre gummy at the boat along with an even more tangled snapper with both visible. But the inevitable happened, the snapper took one last run and the mess of tangled braid gave out leaving me with the gummy (I would have preferred it the other way around) Landed the gummy happy with the feed it would provide but disappointed at the loss.
Rest of the afternoon resulted in several rays, the loss of an even bigger gummy at the boat and the securing of a second slightly smaller that the first which will be eaten today by some kids who love "fish bites" while we eat steak ........great afternoon, only one other boat briefly joined me before moving off, weed was an absolute pain even with a faily small tidal current but you cannot complain at two nice fish.
Just before leaving and after a totally biteless half an hour boat gave a huge lunge and the burley bucket rope twanged taught before snapping loose, hmm, no more bucket on the end ...........takes a big shark to snatch a whole burley bucket and cut through cleanly a nylon rope, might think twice before leaning over the side to wash my hands at the moment.
Have a great weekend and go the dockers !
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Barra update
Submitted by Bunny on Wed, 2013-09-25 19:30Since my last report where I nailed a 118 cm fish my brother has been about a dozen times. He's caught fish every trip and I reckon the total number is somewhere around 45 in those trips. Well over a dozen have been over the metre mark. Maybe even half the fish have been over the metre. The very next trip after mine I turned down the deckie spot and the guy that went caught a 129cm fish. Mick himself has caught his fair share with the biggest of 128cm form memory. Mick and Erica's son got his first metre fish a few days ago so they're all getting into the action.
Yesterday Mick got a 114 and a 118 in quick time to go with the tally for the day that already included some impressive.
They just sent me these photos of a fish Mick caught that his by far his heaviest. It went 126cm and well over 30 kilos. The other fish that were longer were not as heavy, perhaps as it was still in the cooler periods of several weeks ago.
I'll check with Ron but if he is not a member does this fish now count as the new record displacing mine since they got a tape shot? It would be good to see the record broken.
I'm hoping to get some better photos soon.
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Montes
Submitted by outdoinit on Tue, 2013-09-24 21:56Well once again all the planning, packing and maintenance is just about done, we head off this coming Sunday for our first ever trip to the Montes, to say that we are slightly excited is an understatement..
We have 2 boats and 5 blokes along for this trip and all first timers, we plan to be over there for a week fishing and exploring...
We have decided to launch from the Fortescue River.
I would like to say thanks to the people that helped out with info and tips over the last few weeks. Cheers
Will post a report when we get back..
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trip report
Submitted by Ollie on Tue, 2013-09-24 19:05Recently returned for a tip up to coral bay with the boys. Unfortunately slr charger failed halfway through the trip so not many photos but some good ones in the time we had. Idea was to get some spearing done but conditions were testing and meant we were only able to fit a few dives in. Big swell and strong winds were persistent most of the trip but we did get a few very nice days in-between. Ill keep it basic, landed 6 blacks and two sails from a few days trolling along with few hoo’s, tuna and dollies. Had one ripper morning spearing spanglies in 20m, whilst being teased by many large tuskies and baldies coming in for a look. Also had some good dives out deep all spearing mak’s ranging from 15-21kg. (sorry about image quality res had to be dropped considerably) enjoy
quick dive in close:
spearing:
out wide:
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Moore river
Submitted by Em801 on Tue, 2013-09-24 18:14Does anyone know if Moore river/wilbinga is fishing any good lately and if so what baits would be best for some big tailor and mulloway thanx guys
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IGFA World Record For Giant Snakehead 2013 - 26Ibs (11.79KG) landed By BKKGUY
Submitted by bkkguy on Tue, 2013-09-24 00:39
My Dream !!! My Passions !!! IGFA World Record for Giant Snakehead 2013.
My name is John aka BKKGUY as many fishing anglers know me by this nick name in FaceBook and my youtube channel.
I came from the tiny red dot Singapore. Thailand is my 2nd home , the country of smile is also home to the giant snakehead of asia. My love for snakehead fishing started 3 years ago. I was browsing through the IGFA world record book and was looking at the snakehead freshwater page. I noticed the last world record catch for this magnificent snakehead was back then in 23 aug 2005 by a Malaysia angler – Christopher S.G. Tan. The record weight was then 10KG (22 Ibs).
I know toman in the wild can grow up 20KG ( 44Ibs). I set myself a personal goal to attempt to break the IGFA world record of 10KG. In my 2 years of wild snakehead fishing, I have landed countless toman range from size 3KG to 9KG. A few occasions during my many wild toman trips, I ever landed a 10KG toman.. but that wasn’t my target. I wanted to break above the 11KG mark…then the record will be worth the efforts.
On 19th April 2013 in the far province of Northeast dam, history is rewrite and a new IGFA world record is rewrite.
I was fishing at my usual toman spot on the 19th April 2013. It was hot and the fishes are not active on my topwater buzz bait. Just then I spotted a few toman rises , popping their heads next to the fish farm. It was a dedicate cast. One wrong move my lure will land on top of the fish farm. Not only that, the minute the toman got hookup, it will definitely make a dive underneath the fish farm net. Not an easy way to fish.
With all the hazes and factors taken into consideration, I decided to lock my reel’s drag 90% tight. I was using the daiwa Ryoga 1016H then, the best BC for toman as far as I know.
As soon as the toman rises, I casted my evergreen combat crank bait 320 toward it. With slow retrieved motion then suddenly I felt a big thug. As fast as lighting, I strike the fish with all my might. I gave it 2 strong strikes then it fish on…
The fight was nothing I ever experience before. It was heavy and the snakehead keep diving down towards the fish farm. I quickly thumb and turned the fish head away from the net.
At one point, it remain stationary as if I felt like it has stuck in between the ropes. I pulled it upward for a while, it started to swim again. After a hard 3mins fights, I managed to bring the toman to the surface.
The sights of the monster toman, once floating on the water surface, made my heart beats faster than usual. It was the fattest and blackish toman I ever seen in my life..
Now the problem is to net it. I carefully instructed my boatman to slowly net the fish in. Once the fish was in the net, I know I have a record catch on my hand… It was at least a 10KG toman with it big fat belly. I took out my measuring tape and original USA boga grip. The length is 93cm, width 22 inch and weighted in 26 Ibs (11.79KG).
I know straight away I have a IGFA world record catch on my hand. After a few photo takings and measurement, I released the fish unharmed back to the water.
It will be a day I never forget. Snakehead fishing is always a big game fishing for asia anglers.
As a professional fishing guide in Thailand. Having the WR snakehead title belt under my name, it will be a great achievement for myself. I have one more extra memories bedtime story to tell to my future grandchildren…
Rod : Major Craft – Beneyro 12-25 Ibs- 7ft rod.
Line : Variva no.4- 64Ibs braided 8 x strength
Reel: Bait cast reel Daiwa Ryoga 1016H
Lure: EverGreen Combat crank 320
Hook: Decoy hook size 1/0
IGFA world record weighted- 26 Ibs ( 11.79KG)- U.S.A Boga Grip 30 Ibs
Length of the fish- 93 cm- IGFA measuring tape.
Width- 22 inch.- IGFAmeasuring tape.
Any other supporting evident: 2 video clips- Go Pro and back view video cam.
Photos- All photos taken of the fish and measurements according to IGFA guidance.
The awesome fights !!!The full pack actions video clip !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8NSpCaDRLw
I have the IGFA WR on my hands.
Awesome feelings !!! Top of the world feelings !!!
It is the day I never forget for the rest of my life.
26 Ibs (11.79KG)- IGFA New World Record for Giant Snakehead (Channa Micropeltes)
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Half a boat
Submitted by CURT on Mon, 2013-09-23 01:21How bout this weather crazy, just got back from down long point boat ramp where I was parked at the ramp watching 2m chop waves smashing the jetty noticed the hull end of a small boat had washed ashore about 50m east of the jetty. Went over and saw that it was actually from a reasonable sized boat maybe a 14 odd footer hard to tell. Was Fiberglass with an enclosed hull and anchor well. Struggled to pull it up the beach with a mate and it was soon dragged back out and along the beach. Was probably just washed up from the seafloor or busted a mooring but it didnt have much growth on it hopefully not a mad storm snapper chaser hahahah
Awesome Wild Fishing !!! Uttermost Experience !!! Giant Snakehead By BKKGUY
Submitted by bkkguy on Sun, 2013-09-22 09:38When it come to snakehead fishing in the wild, it like a big challenge for me and as well for the coming anglers.
Most of the time, newbie anglers came ot me for tips and advises on how to catch this awesome fish of asia. Snakehead can be ferocious in the way they attack the lure. Lure fishing is the best way to get them.
Anglers must have the basic fishing skills in term of casting accurate and fast... Keep focus on the baby fries when chasing after the mama toman or keep casting in between the bunches and tall brushes at the edge bank, that's where most snakehead fishes like to hide..
That's why snakehead fishing is so addictive to many game fishing anglers like myself.
From 1KG to 4KG snakehead fights is easy to fish and the fight is not so intense.
Any snakehead above 5KG to 10KG & above, the game level is totally different...The fights is awesome and pound for pound it is the strongest fish among freshwater fishes in asia. (Forget about mekong catfish, that's not fishing but simply bull strength pulls)
True facts :
"The giant snakehead or giant mudfish (Channa micropeltes) is the largest species in the family Channidae, capable of growing to over 1 m in length (3.3 ft) and a weight of over 20 kg (44 lb)."
This fishing trip consist of 3 anglers from 3 different countries. One from Singapore, one from malaysia and the one from french side.
They have 4 days of wild fishing adventure with me and I planned in such a way that we have 2 different fishing spots to fish, so my coming anglers can experience 2 different kind of feels and terrains of snakehead fishing.. (It kind of boring if we keep fishing at the same spot for days)
Enjoys my epic catch report & exciting youtube clip below :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-M5MiVgSRE
Highlight catches........
Exotic scenery and fishing grounds....
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some more albany fun.
Submitted by Chris fish on Thu, 2013-09-19 12:32thought i would throw up a few phots from around town, been mucking around in albany for the last week or so and inbetwwen getting ready for my trip to steep next week ive been doing a bit of fishing with the brother around the place.
shark fishing at a few spots around town, few bream on lures while chasing mulloway in the river, little salmon on a live herring slid out after kingys off the rocks and bait collecting at the local jetty for up north.
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