Last nights Snapper from my 10 foot Tinny

Last nights Snapper from my 10 foot Tinny

Well I really wanted to go out land based during that storm, but due to having the dam flu I wasn't allowed to go out in the rain. Anyway with the forcast for low winds and not much rain I decided to head out Sat night for a few hours in my tinny. I was still coughing and sniffling but I was determined to go anyway so I did.
Halfway to the ramp I realised I'd forgotten the sounder so I turned around and went back and got it. Once I was half way down again it started to rain and I hadn't brought the wet weather gear, bugger I thought I'd just continue and hope it stops. Luckily it did, sort of.
I got a few small showers over the time I was out but not too heavy. Anyway I found a likely spot and set out my big lines. I couldn't be bothered trying for baitfish so just used old bait that I already had. Once the lines were out I got as comfortable as one can in a 10 foot tinny and settled down to wait. An hour and a half later my line went screaming off, I hooked up straight away and felt plenty of headshakes and new it was a pinky, whoohoo. After a short while I gently led it into my landing net and it was mine. Aprox 9kgs of beautiful Pink.
 


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Well done

Sun, 2011-06-26 09:57

thats a cracker in trying conditions.

Shame there's no Fishwrecked comp tag

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nice snappy was that in

Sun, 2011-06-26 09:59

nice snappy was that in cockburn?

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Yeah in Cockburn somewhere. 

Sun, 2011-06-26 10:03

Yeah in Cockburn somewhere.

 

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nice snapper , worth the

Sun, 2011-06-26 10:12

nice snapper , worth the effot!!

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 Great work mate, nice to be

Sun, 2011-06-26 10:14

 Great work mate, nice to be rewarded for putting in the extra effort! What was the winning bait?

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Old scalie mackerel did the

Sun, 2011-06-26 10:15

Old scalie mackerel did the trick.

 

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POTM

Sun, 2011-06-26 10:16

Looks like we've got a fair POTM contender there, what a cracker.

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good fish buddy , well done

Sun, 2011-06-26 10:17

good fish buddy , well done

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thats a nice one. we have

Sun, 2011-06-26 10:21

thats a nice one. we have been down there last night as well and i must say well done beeing out there in a 10foot tinny!! the weather wasnt the greatest at best!

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Great reward for the effort,

Sun, 2011-06-26 20:05

Great reward for the effort, would of been great seeing the colour when it first came into the light.

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Great

Sun, 2011-06-26 20:11

Great fish Danny.

Nice reward for all your effort

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verry nice fish

Sun, 2011-06-26 20:18

its a stonker well done

good to see some in the sound!

no id tag?

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great pinky mate, well done

Sun, 2011-06-26 20:18

great pinky mate, well done

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did you get a measurement of

Sun, 2011-06-26 21:48

did you get a measurement of the fish?

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good fish by the way and

Sun, 2011-06-26 21:49

good fish by the way and seems to be a few early ones around

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What a cracker red!!!!

Sun, 2011-06-26 21:54

What a cracker red!!!! Congrats

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some nice pinkies rolling in

Mon, 2011-06-27 08:12

some nice pinkies rolling in at the moment by the looks. Love fish like that from a small boat, well done

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Deserve after putting in the

Mon, 2011-06-27 08:19

Deserve after putting in the hard yards

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I did get a rough measurement

Mon, 2011-06-27 10:29

I did get a rough measurement as it was slightly longer than my icebox. My icebox has a fishing sticker on it and goes up to 88cms(length of icebox) and it was longer than that. So aprox 90-92cm and 9kgs. No ID tag.

Danny.

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Solid fish Dan!

Mon, 2011-06-27 10:52

Great reward for effort mate, might seeya out there sometime.

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There was one of the Kayak

Wed, 2011-06-29 05:30

There was one of the Kayak boys out that night, in a yellow yak but not you. He said he'd had a quiet night that particular night, so I reckon I just got lucky.

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hey mate can you share some

Sun, 2011-07-03 18:24

hey mate can you share some info of where you park your car and where to launch from down that way i heard its full of shit heads at night in the carpark

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I've just been parking at the

Sun, 2011-07-03 18:45

I've just been parking at the Woodman point public boatramp and taking the risk. So far so good. I guess eventually something might happen but far out you can't let what ifs, stop you from doing something you like. I've parked there quite a few times so far and no problems. (I have seen a few drunken louts about a few times but they haven't caused me any grief yet.) Also I've also launched off the beach down Navel Base by the Desal plant quite a few times to, with my 4x4 and even there no serious trouble so far either, though I did get a smashed trailer light there once but thats it.

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Nice snap from the sound and

Sun, 2011-07-03 19:25

Nice snap from the sound and here I am traveling 60 k's

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Cracking pinky mate, well

Mon, 2011-07-04 08:57

Cracking pinky mate, well done potm contender for sure

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hi danny, i finally made it

Wed, 2011-07-27 22:03

hi danny,

 

i finally made it across! Still pissed about the 12:27am text message though :P

 

she is a stonker mate!