Hogs in the shallows

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    Posted: 17 May 2016 at 9:03pm
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Hi all, heres some of the nice fish from around in the shallows of the mercury islands of late, all hooked in under 10-20 meters of water.
Cheers Owen
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Holy crikey Bush Billy! I couldn't catch those with gelignite. Always good to see your reports, awesome pics of great fish.
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Thats a solid effort mate well done!
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Wow, yeah what great pictures - and fish! Nice .
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some nice kingies/pics there and looks like a good bit of reversing third pic from bottom.
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Nice fish BBThumbs Up
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Very impressive Bush Billy for shallow water... on livies I assume?

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Wow! Beauties BB. Wots the biggest out of that lot? Cheers.
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Thems some biguns Bush Billy, very happy punters I bet
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Originally posted by Snappa Geoff Snappa Geoff wrote:

Wow! Beauties BB. Wots the biggest out of that lot? Cheers.
Just under 33kg 

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Originally posted by Catchelot Catchelot wrote:

Very impressive Bush Billy for shallow water... on livies I assume?

Slow trolling big live macs
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Not a bad spot that BB, Wink
Can't fit to many of those big as macs from the bay in my live tank.
bloody things are huge.
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HahaLOL big baits all right, back to the little local ones now.
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That last one looks like the best keeper  
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