what is your wierdest catch
Submitted by snappermiles on Fri, 2010-12-03 08:34
hi guys i want to no what is your weirdest catch?? the fish you caught on the wrong gear at the wrong place??
mine would have to be after catching mahi mahi all day at the fads we took off back to the fourty metre mark for duhies dropped down and caught another mahi mahi quiet strange and havent caught another mahi mahi around perth in that depth of water since!
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Faulkner Family
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would have to be a 8kg dhuie
would have to be a 8kg dhuie on a ste of 2/0 snelled hooks for kg's
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tailor marc
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The most unusual thing
The most unusual thing happend last night acually. I was fishing at eshed and my mate was about 15 meters to my left.
I felt a few small bites and just as i was waiting for the hookep i looked over and jason was hooked up and then my line started to go tight. I thought we were tangled. He pulled the fish over the side and onto the ground and i couldnt belive my eyes, The fish had my hook in its mouth and his!!! hahahahaha Never had that in all my years fishing lol!
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Faulkner Family
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Marc. we have had the same
Marc. we have had the same thing as well. but ours was out deep and we were fishing opposite sides of the boat and the fish came up under the hull at first.
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scottland
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i was on a charters
and 3 people all hooked the same shark all in the mouth to
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snappermiles
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faulkner family
thats not really wierd! happens a fair bit!
bugger marc did you claim it as yours?? lol what was it??
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tailor marc
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haha nah i let hip take it
haha nah i let him take it as i had just landed 2 monster silver bream that went 43cm !!
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hlokk
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Most unusual would be a
Most unusual would be a lionfish on a SP.
Have caught a dollie in 8m of water off rotto fishing for salmon.
My dad and his friend ended up pulling up the same dhuie. I've also caught a dhuie with the remnants of Colins rig in its mouth, hehe.
fishnut
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occy
shore fishing at Ningaloo about 20 years ago - landed a decent snapper and had a huge occy hanging on. The snapper was still alive and I was retrieving the whole time so the occy must have seen it go past and jump on. He refused to let go, so they both ended up as dinner :-)
danno
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i have a bait chaser one
i have a bait chaser one getting some herring for bait for out wide. throw it out and watched a 40+cm herring follow the rig in and ate all three hooks. it was a mess to get out of its mouth.
also catching to bird at lancelin. my mulie was at the bottom and i felt a hit so i stuck and i was on so started winding in but it came to the surface and started flapping around. i got the hooks out and also got another set out of it foot. it wasnt happy.
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Another unusual captures was
Another unusual captures was fishing at golden ponds i caught 3 rainbow trout. Took them home for dinner and only cooked up 2. Ended up using a whole rainbow trout minus the head for bait out offshore and caught a duie on it!!!!
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shifeng
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caught a pelican on a live
caught a pelican on a live tailor meant for mulloway at the narrows
Richard Snellin
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I was fishing near the mouth
I was fishing near the mouth of the Collie river about 10 years ago and landed what i thought was some kind of eel, after some research we identified it as a hairtail which was something i've never caught or seen since.
Ewan
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WOW! That is really really
WOW! That is really really weird indeed!
dodgy
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Fishing wide of Darwin and
Fishing wide of Darwin and saw a mate catch 2 fish on a single hook. Will dig out the pic.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
snappermiles
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thats a bloody good effort
have caught two fish on snelled hooks before but never on one!!
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MattMiller
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These 2
wern't me but i've seen 2 Billfish caught on standard paternoster rigs on the retrieve while bottom fishing at Coral Bay.
First one was a Black Marlin @30kg that took an Occy tenticle on a 8/0 hooked cleanly in the mouth. The other was a ripper Sailfish of around the same weight that took a slab of spanish flag on a 8/0. The old fella that hooked that couldn't get out of his chair due to the strength of the fish and it took him about 30mins to land it. Great sight
Fathom
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An Oarfish from 1000 + mtrs
An Oarfish from 1000 + mtrs on a seamount between Aus and NZ
brg
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bonito at seal island on a
bonito at seal island on a piece of prawn fishing for herring put up a good fight
Barrd Up
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A spangled emperor about 5
A spangled emperor about 5 kilo on a squid jig off the beach.
Mark
crasny1
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Stonefish
Ugly bastard but in 15m offshore inbetween Malus and Rosemary Islands, Dampier.
I originally thought it was one of those ooglies, but on closer inspection without a doubt a stonefish, which in my role/work I have to be able to ID with certainty. Was a little surprised to say the least.
Neels
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ADDICT- dUFFMAN
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Southern Basterd Codling
I was fishing for herring at nigth in the Cut when i pulled in what i thought may have been a cobbler
turned out being a Southern Basterd Codling or also known as a Bearded Cod
winner winner chicken dinner
Markie
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my girlfriend caught whopper
my girlfriend caught whopper of an octopus on a squid jig, i was impresssed haha
Auslobster
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We got one of those...
...bastard cod things, duffman's talking about, on the back edge of the FFB one night.
Thought the long tom on an x-rap in the Dawesville Cut was pretty strange.
Hey Matt, you didn't actually land that dollie at Rotto...my son buggered up the net shot and then the line broke! Unless you got another one I don't know about!
hlokk
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Painful memories :'(
Painful memories. So so close :'(
Though, did get the leader, so that semi-counts in game fishing, hehe. Either way, I thought it fit the thread.
aalfred
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mussel
I was fishing for carp at a small lake in Germany. I used a float with a small hook and 2 maggots for bait. After a while I checked my bait and a mussel sucked my hook in the shell and closed up. So I had a float with a mussel attached to it, it looked really funny and never happened again. Luckily one of my mates was there as well otherwise no one would have believed me..
snappermiles
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well alfred
if one of my mates told me that without proof you certainly would be looking at them weird !! what was so close hlokk????
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dagree
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Most Unusual
Fishing off the rocks at Red Bluff, Kalbarri. Winding in to check bait and felt some weight.... thought it was seaweed.
Lifting out of water line went light and heard a splash. Checked hook and had 2 cray legs on it... So close to a good feed that night!!!
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aussie_breamer
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same
fishing at salmon bay over at rotto,
out on the reef, caught a mulloway and some tailor and then hooked somthing decent and pulled up a massive jumbo cray over the reef ledge.
caught about 7 more crays over the week fishing for tailor!!!
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silly
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Not me but a mate caught
Not me but a mate caught this stripey in the loop of his rig. Cant say ive ever seen anything like that.. but I've caught a big turtle while fishing on a reef.
scottland
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caught a turtle
while fishing for bream way up stream in the swan. however not just one caught like 5 over the time
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Rudog
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On a coral prawn and a
On a coral prawn and a snelled 2/0 Baitholder! No anti-reverse on the reel, landed in the dark.
snappermiles
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silly im amazed
you got the turtle in! i have been diving and tried to hold onto a small turtle and had no chance so good effort to pull it in on a rod! and to catch a fish in a loop now thats wierd! rudog would have been a great fight but a big dissapointment when that fella turned up at the beach!!! and as for the crays on the line i have heard a few stories of them getting caught on a line! my uncle actually caught a huge jumbo years ago in fifty metres of water caught it on an 8/0 and a piece of herring!
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crasny1
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Also forgot to mention
A Manta ray, but the ray caught me instead. Not a chance in hell. Was trying to find the under wing missiles with a lure, and the Manta turned directly to where I placed the lure. Accidently got hooked and you should have seen how quick I got the knife to cut the braid. Still went like a bullet and lost about 25m in a flash.
By the way no cobes to be seen.
Neels
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kye86
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Pulled up a blue ringed
Pulled up a blue ringed octopus at the e shed once, wasnt hooked, just hanging onto the sinker. Also got a monster squid on a live squid the other night. wasnt hooked but just wouldnt let go
Dicko
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Crays on bait
We used to pull up the odd cray when fishing for Mulloway in yanchep.
Also hooked a Blue manna crab trolling for barra on tuesday!!!
nana nana nana nana fishing!!!
uncle
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early 70s
fishin off highrocks south of coral,sinker wrapped around a huge crayfish,just winched him up,lovely
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Spinnerak
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Herring on a twisty, the
Herring on a twisty, the funny part is as i had been casting and retriving for 1 hour without luck, I finally nail one wen i wasn't doing anything and just had the lure sitting in the water, no current or anything
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scottland
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actually
i get a herring on a jelly bean haha
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allrounder
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years ago i was in the swan fishing for flatties
i hooked an old bucket by the handle when i lifted it from the water it had a big flounder in the bottom.Scored a bucket and a fish.
I was also fishing with a mate and he caught a little cod on a gang of hooks.The thing was his gang was through the first eye of a set of gangs that was already in the fish from when it had busted someone else off.
So tell me have you got your info from years on the water or hours on the internet?
Goodz
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LOL to both those stories!!!
LOL to both those stories!!!
snappermiles
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nice effort allrounder
thats what you call luck what are the chances of hooking a hook through the eye of another hook!
actually thinking about it this happened last year went fishing one day with my mate in three hundred metres of water and he got snagged and lost three hundred metres of braid! he was pissed! four weeks later i went back to the same spot and hooked up his braid and got every metre of it back! rolled it onto a hand line and gave it back to him!! what are the chances!!
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I was fishing the Murray
I was fishing the Murray River (SA) when I hooked a fish on a stumpjumper lure.
Assuming it was a good murray cod, I swore when I saw the lure appear with no fish on the trebles. Damn, it got off I thought. Then the rod buckled again and I managed to get the lure boatside. One of the hooks had caught a brass swivel which had a meter trace and est 8kg carp connected.