Caught a 1.4 meter shovel nose saturday night

I got the ok to go for a fish left around 5:30 went to coogee marina wall  only thing i got there was a fresh attacked cuttle fish... so i got that out of the water for bait decided it was time to move on..

i got to challenger beach around 8pm  parked on the boat ramp and fished i was using mullie on a 3 snell rig.

well  i was thinkin gof packing up to go home then i got a run it run up the beach towards the shacks so strong at 1.4 meters .

Caught on a timber wolf beach rod and a fin nor biscayne 80  line 50lb braid and mono 50 lb berkley pwr for rig making

that is the best thing ive caught in years and always new the spot would produce im happy as

it went home with me and is now lunch today it has so much meat on it..

thanks

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 awesome job

Sun, 2014-09-14 09:51

 awesome job

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 Well done

Sun, 2014-09-14 11:03

 Well done

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Cracker Shovel! Well

Sun, 2014-09-14 11:06

Cracker Shovel! Well done 

Some good flake for fish & chips there

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Doh!

Sun, 2014-09-14 12:39

 I hope they aren't good to eat I got a big one land based up in shark bay and chucked it back 

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 Good Job NW the old local

Sun, 2014-09-14 14:29

 Good Job NW the old local finaly produced ey. 

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Sun, 2014-09-14 15:11

Pretty ordinary on the chew though.

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absolutley terrible to eat!!

Sun, 2014-09-14 15:37

absolutley terrible to eat!! kept on once as we catch them pretty much every trip and it tasted like crap and had the texture of paper mache!

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this one cooked up nice fried

Sun, 2014-09-14 16:05

this one cooked up nice fried some in butter and deep fried some both  very yummy all the kids ate it to

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Good report good catch

Sun, 2014-09-14 16:25

Well done,

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they are

Sun, 2014-09-14 22:15

Good to eat when done right,
the old fillets in milk overnight does the trick