my catch off groote island with a hand line

my catch off groote island with a hand line


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nice fish

Fri, 2008-07-04 19:08

good stuff, the biggest cod i have seen.

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Great fish mate

Fri, 2008-07-04 20:26

That would have given you stick on a handline. Where you working off Groote Island?
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cod off groote

Fri, 2008-07-04 23:14

Yes i worked on the prawn trawlers for a while...in the Gulf of carp and Kimberlys. In tiger prawn season you only trawl at night..so the day is for sleeping. But being the keen fisherman i am..i would skip the sleep and get the skipper to anchor us over a lump 4 the day. Then i would put every hand line i had in the water..and i was in heaven...if you ever have a chance to fish up that way, dont turn it down!

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Great handline catch

Sat, 2008-07-05 07:22

Hope you were wearing gloves wade, I've pulled decent sized skippy in with a handline and hands were cut to ribbons. Nothing worse that a running fish at the end of a line that is buried in a previous line cut! Ouch LOL

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got to love groote ... used

Sat, 2008-07-05 22:18

got to love groote ... used to trawl that area as well ..... hmmmm fresh morton bay bugs *drool* loved the mack and trout fishing there .... the vanderlin (sp) islands was my favorite fishing spot :)

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groote

Sun, 2008-07-06 07:55

Yes morton bay bugs on toast for brecky, was hard to take!