Potential record cobia
Submitted by davewillo on Tue, 2025-02-18 13:31
How was the size of that cobia caught yesterday! Massive fish but for it to be caught metro is even more amazing.
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still trying
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Makes you wonder about what
Makes you wonder about what is out there that we just haven't come across yet, I would have thought there must be even bigger up north somewhere.
rather be fishing
sunshine
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Confirmed as a world record on certified scales
A smidge under 80kg .......and i thought our 22kg one was big.
beeroclock
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Just saw that on youtube what a fish!
the young angler got a good sense of humour standing there with that rod next to the fish, it looks like a rod you use for bait casting mulies ha ha
Alan James
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I'm not so sure ........ ???
The Oceans Legacy FB page says the fish was caught on an Oceans Legacy Inshore Element 7ft rod which they rate at PE3. If it's on FB it must be correct.
sea-kem
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Absolute stonker, I got one
Absolute stonker, I got one at 16kg last year that pulled like a freight train. This must've been epic.
Love the West!
davewillo
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Yeah I've caught a few up to
Yeah I've caught a few up to maybe 18kg and they sure go hard! got one bottom fishing in about 12m at the Mackerel Islands one year and that went beserk! Had me wondering what the hell bottom species goes on a run like that! I like them to eat too but not sure an 80kg model would be too tasty.
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sea-kem
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Agree Dave, I'd heard they
Agree Dave, I'd heard they were going to get it cast or something like that if anyone can clarify.
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uncle
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Hungry buggers
Caught one on a bucktail jog at MI, had 21 whole fish and prawns s in its gut
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
The Saint
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I heard the young guy being
I heard the young guy being interviewed on the radio yesterday, apparently caught on 15kg.
Lefty 44
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I wonder
Hope they dispatched it before hitting the deck.
Those things can go berko, usually aiming for the most expensive item they can break.
Well done to the bloke for landing it.
Faulkner Family
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Certainly is a monster.
Certainly is a monster. Wouldn't want to be on the receiving side of that fight. Would be like fighting a big shark
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
crasny1
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I heard that they thought it was a shark and tried
to break it off. Was on a bucks night fishing charter. Something to remember forever!!!
I have seen the photo, has anyone got a copy to post on here. And maybe not the one with the topless barmaids in the background
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davewillo
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Apparently the deckie kept
Apparently the deckie kept saying it was a big stingray and to break it off. Bloody good thing he didn't listen!
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Rob H
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Bucks party wasnt it?He
Bucks party wasnt it?
He better get used to not fishing for the next 20 yrs
Especially because the bucks party has overshadowed the wedding, he's gonna be payin for that for decades
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.