swan snappers

went for a fish in the river on sunday night, hoping for a mulloway. Had two big rods out with livebaits and fished for whatever else may come by with my bream rod. after catching 2 herring for bait i took the float off and first cast caught this little snapper, ended up catching 5 in a row, followed by a chopper which bit through the 20lb leader right at the last moment. after that it went dead and i couldnt hook anything but trumpters. Hooked another unstoppable about 1am that im guessing was a jumbo ray.. went incredibly fast and busted the braid at the line roller after about 150m. biggest snapper went 31cm.
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some bream i caught..http://s620.photobucket.com/home/lightertheif/allalbums

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Last time I fished in the

Tue, 2007-03-06 19:19

Last time I fished in the river we had a few small snapper biggest went about 15cm, around claremont.

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any runs from mulloway

Tue, 2007-03-06 19:32

any runs from mulloway lighterthief? i went out the other night in hope of a mulla (sunday night) got one run..90% sure it was mulla
heaps of tailor and a flounder and hooked big crabs but theyd let go at the surface!
whered u fish lighterthief?

cheers
sam

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Cheers,

Sam

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between rocky bay and point

Tue, 2007-03-06 20:05

between rocky bay and point roe.. nah pretty sure the thing i hooked was a ray. where abouts did you go? boat or shore?

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went mossie bay in the boat

Wed, 2007-03-07 07:36

went mossie bay in the boat

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Cheers,

Sam

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Stirling bridge..

Wed, 2007-03-07 19:56

Anybody had any luck under the bridge with mulloway recently? Am thinking of going this Friday.

Heard from a mate that sometime ago some guy got bitten by a bullshark while prawning under the bridge...any truth in that?

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we were

Thu, 2007-03-08 16:47

there under the bridge sunday night and neil got busted off on his baitcaster from a thumping mulloway....took a bream surfing while runnin to his rod peelin off a lot of line....fought it for a short while and then PING with the fish wavin good bye....but we caught at least 20 or so bream.....lots of fun ...biggest bein 38-40 cm....
SO MANY FISH.....SO FEW SICKIES!

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hey vander what bait were

Fri, 2007-03-09 17:29

hey vander what bait were you using??

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some bream i caught..http://s620.photobucket.com/home/lightertheif/allalbums

MASA - Marine Aquarium Societies Australia http://www.masa.asn.au/masa/index.html