love seeing them in underwater documentarys beautiful, love the colour of them. Sounds like you all had a good day on the water and released that big beauty to swim for another day, gorgeous day also by the look. Happy fishing wish I was there.
I have seen them in KL and Penang for sale in live tanks in restraunts. Bit of a shame really. Not as big as that one but around the 2-3 kg mark and plenty of them. Great fish that one and great capture in 3 metres.
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Maori Wrasse
Strange but beautiful looking fish.
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quality
Absolutely quality that fish and pic!
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Pure arse landing this one,
Pure arse landing this one, was caught on PE2 in 3m of water.
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awsome looking fish, you
awsome looking fish, you dont see them every day, one to remember
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i hope you put that beauty
i hope you put that beauty back mate !! Protected species aint it ? Nice fish ayee looks sick :)
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We put everything back,
We put everything back, apart from a couple of yellowfin we kept for dinner and a dogtooth that didn't make it.
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never seen one before!! did
never seen one before!! did it fight hard??
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yeah bodie they go hard as.
yeah bodie they go hard as.
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I think they are a beautiful looking fish and yes are protected
love seeing them in underwater documentarys beautiful, love the colour of them. Sounds like you all had a good day on the water and released that big beauty to swim for another day, gorgeous day also by the look. Happy fishing wish I was there.
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That's awesome
I still remember diving on the Great Barrier Reef 30 odd years ago and hand feeding the Maori Wrasse. They are spectacular.
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food for thought
I have seen them in KL and Penang for sale in live tanks in restraunts. Bit of a shame really. Not as big as that one but around the 2-3 kg mark and plenty of them. Great fish that one and great capture in 3 metres.
Rosco
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striking colours
quality picture and capture in that amount of water
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AWESOME CAPTURE THAT AND A
AWESOME CAPTURE THAT AND A CRACKING PICTURE, WELL DONE FELLA
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wow
never seen a fish like it well done champ
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They grow monstrously huge,
They grow monstrously huge, we had ones on the outside of the atoll twice as big as this one hitting our poppers.
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Great fish, would have been
Great fish, would have been a spin out seeing that come up.
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