Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

3 generations fish this morning with my Dad and my Son.
One of those mornings where everything just goes right

We were on the water with a longline deployed and anchored up with 2x burly pots deployed and baits in the water just after 6am.

Nothing happened at all for the first 15 min or so then my strayline ticked out......then ran....then nothing......fuck,do I check my bait? Na il give it a couple mins then off she goes and give it a wind and connect. Nice 8p snapper to start off. Usually the boy always gets the first one but he catches up later.
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A couple min later Dad is on,the boy is on and I am winding up lines.
the next hour or so is flat out winding up lines, netting fish, fish flapping on deck while other fish are being fought....truely epic rod fishing for snapper.
Only one tangle up which is amazing with Dads habit of catching fish in the rod holder and I sorted it quick with a knife to avoid losing the fish(the other rod was his anyway)

Son got the biggest fish of the day on the rods at 16 pound on @rambo-6mmrem little reel and 8p braid.
Chilly bin looking full already with 16 snapper in it we called it and picked up the longline.
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One really really really big snapper and freshly caught.....sorry I havent got a photo or a weight as we wanted to get it back in the water asap but suffice to say it was easily over 25p probably more like 30. From reasonably shallow water and freshly caught he powered away no problem after a min by the boat to get his breath back.
unfortunatly this 19pounder was not as feisty and despite plenty of time trying to get him to go he had to come home....none of it will be wasted.Attachment 131326

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Was just one of those epic mornings dreams are made of

Bloody awesome.