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    Posted: 18 Feb 2014 at 8:26pm
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Fella called sparky got two of these Pretty good Effort By himself though it was pretty notable.   Any thoughts about ID of fish  
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if I was going to guess I would say bigeye - im no expert though so just a guess!
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awfully dark picture to tell exactly, never the less. awesome effort to that man
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Any more pics brad?
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Look like Bigeye to me too Brad( just on body shape)
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Impressive effort, Hope we get better pics.
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you fullas need to eat more carrots ,
Sure the board says yellowfin tuna .


First one 59.5 kg on 37kg I think
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 Big eye id say, pics average tho
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looks like chocolate to me
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Originally posted by corokid corokid wrote:

you fullas need to eat more carrots ,
Sure the board says yellowfin tuna .


First one 59.5 kg on 37kg I think



Hahaha....ummmm....if it's on a weighstation board it must be right?!....oh nice one....i have a slightly used harbour bridge for sale...interested?

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reckon the weighmaster might be the one needing the carrots
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Big Eye, - Body shape is quite stocky and if you zoom in on the hanging fish in the photo with both fish you can see that it has short sickles (see photo below where I have marked the fins in thin red line. Not difinitive but a good indication that these are not yellowfin, on a yellowfin of this size you would expect them to be a lot longer than this. The other phot is of a 62 kg YFT I got in 2005 and you can see the big difference in fin length. 
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regardless of what they are to catch two by yourself would have been pretty exciting fishing,

thanks for sharing Brad well worth the effort for put it up on the site for us all to enjoy...Thumbs Up

 
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Originally posted by Kezza Kezza wrote:

Originally posted by corokid corokid wrote:

you fullas need to eat more carrots ,
Sure the board says yellowfin tuna .


First one 59.5 kg on 37kg I think



Hahaha....ummmm....if it's on a weighstation board it must be right?!....oh nice one....i have a slightly used harbour bridge for sale...interested?

Confused Honestly thought I had some special powers and you guys couldn't see the board.
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