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    Posted: 20 Jul 2013 at 8:40pm
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Out early this morning headed out to Mayor for  a fist time look,
Checked some of the reefs southern side and out to the east.
Wasn't to be our day however with nothing of any significance on the sounder and also
no snapper or much else around.
Conditions were near perfect though so was good to be out on the boat with some good mates.
On the way back in we stopped on the inside (Tg side) of the island where a few boats were gathering.
We though we may catch the odd snapper but found that a couple of boats were catching kings in shallow water. Our sounder revealed quite a few handing around the drop off but we couldn't entice them onto our jigs.
Livies would have been the go and a few were caught by the guys on Grim Reefer.
photo below is of Reefer and Assassin.
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Livies were def the call of the day. With only 2 fish all day falling to jigs. That's me jigging on grim reefer in the pic. We def had to work for our fish and found the bite to only be about 90mins. Mate did get his new pb of about 15-16 kilo. So he was buzzing. Conditions were amazing and after hitting every deep pin around mayor we found they were biting best in shallow water.
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Conditions sure look good, better luck next time.
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TJM didnt even realise it was you out there mate. Knew you were somewhere but. 

Was an epic day. Steady day for some and slow for others. Hard work for sure.
Was awesome with Zac on Angler Management, Tim and Jono on Grim Reefer, Luke (Extreme 650) and James on Balls Deep the Boys on Optimus and then Alex, Millkman, the Apprentice and myself on Assassin. Ill chuck some sweet shots i got of some of the Kings from the day up. But what a sensational day it surely was. Bring on the next boat convoy.... Where to next boys? White? 

Oh and Zac did you go buy that Lotto ticket you Jammy bugga


This is what we had to deal with... Pretty tough conditions really.


So were at our "SPOT" and the boys on "Angler Management" were making a right stir. We headed over and took some Snaps. 


This one is my favourite. not sure what ZAC is after here??? Thoughts anyone?


Then the boys in Grim Reefer asked where was their photo shoot. So we headed over and then this happened...


We were literally 2 meters from them... Tim aka Grim Reefer said "something is going on down there". He slaps it into sunset and is literally jammed against the gunnel.

It was game on for Tim with a rather loud audiance to only sadly loose the fish half way through the fight.


But not long after this, they were refunded with this wee nice Model.

If anyone else has any pics of the day get there up....




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Zac, I hear you were given a pretty special sabiki to play with today?
Did it get water time?
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White sounds good to me Aaron! Mean day out! Gona run through some video footage today. Still burning after that bust off when we were side by side chatting lol.
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I saw your boat at the ramp but didn't put 2 and 2 together else I would have said Hi and introduced myself.  I went to schooner and picked up some fat as snapper and a kingi.. I also lost the livie bin over the side and had a bust off. I really should have stayed at home for all the muppetry LOL.

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Stink bout the livey bin, good to hear you got on tho. Was there any Topwater action that direction DIY? Your imagination is the limit with boat graphics and vynl.
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Originally posted by Uncle Uncle wrote:

Zac, I hear you were given a pretty special sabiki to play with today?
Did it get water time?
 
I did indeed!!! all ill say is thanks but they don't work!LOLWink maybe bigger hooks? had no truble hooking them but boy lost a tonne!!!
 
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Originally posted by ANGLER MANAGMENT ANGLER MANAGMENT wrote:

Originally posted by Uncle Uncle wrote:

Zac, I hear you were given a pretty special sabiki to play with today?
Did it get water time?
 
I did indeed!!! all ill say is thanks but they don't work!LOLWink maybe bigger hooks? had no truble hooking them but boy lost a tonne!!!
 
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Mmmm, thanks Zac, I guess that means more refinement needed.
I have some super tiny re-curves that I reckon won't let go.
There will be a string for you to tryWink
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sounds choice! they out fished say 5 to one when the bite slowed 
 
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Looks like you were fishing on a lake!
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Updated with PICS. Sorry TJM not trying to Hijack. Just adding to how dam good it was out there even though fishing was pretty tough. If any one else has anything to contribute please add. 

I know Jonocooge has some nice shot of a New Synit Mantis x35 bent on a sweet King.
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hahaha that's a shocker!!!
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Here's a couple of pics of our day. Was good having a fleet about. Especially with others in yelling distance. 



Andy Railed up on his new PB, about a 15 kegger

Tim with a nice one + More crack then Harlem

Result of a tussle with the new Synit Mantis. Might be back over to your place to permanently 'borrow' that combo Aaron

Andy and his PB
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Aaron you go for it,, we found it hard so was wondering if we were doing it wrong.
Congrats to Grim Reefer and crew, saw them drag in the big one, well done.
Conditions were perfect, will be out again,,, white island is one of our planned trips too,
one of the crew has been out a couple of times and loved it.
Mate your boat looks awesome !!! really good rig
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Cheers tjm, yea im stoked with the new rig, few electrical teething issues(vhf antenae issues) to iron out but goes really well.
Hate to disappoint, but andys big one only went 12.5. Threw it on the scales and andy realised that his old pb is still untouched.still he's one stoked fisho. With a bag of kingfish steaks and sore arms one can only smile!
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For sure mate,,looked larger than that at the time
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Yea i was a lil shocked didnt weigh more so we even checked scales on the gym weights. Jono got beast of the day on Grim but great team effort.! Bring on white with a night on the piss after I say! A good old catch up and chin wag or brag! Ohope top 10 has plenty of room!
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Yeah I was shocked on weight, I was keen to weigh it on the boat but andy didnt wanna, would have been interesting to see if it had lost much weight overnight in the ice bag. Kingys always seem to be a bit lighter then they look. Makes it easy for us fishos to overshoot it. 
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