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One of the first of many fishing trips for me and my best mate and we even succeded in catching this lit'l cray off the rocks at Whatipu.

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Muppet - I am envious. I think you wrote about this previously. I keep thinking there must be more around - but I am lucky to catch 1 per yr.
Not quite sure I get the plan and folder bit, and have few pics of me with fish - mainly fishing solo. But I like the stories with the pics. Doesn't have to be the size of the fish to be the most memorable. Can I add one - that has a good story - not my fish.
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You need to have a livie down Alan and ideally near the baitfish.
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Originally posted by Muppet Muppet wrote:

You need to have a livie down Alan and ideally near the baitfish.
tried that -lots.
Anyway - I have sorted a handful of pics - not many with me. Fishing solo mostly - bit hard to take pic too. But picked ones with a story.
Just have to wait for the numbers to come up. Pleased with myself. Computer and I don't get on too well - not first name terms anyway. I have many names for it.
Do we vote on y/days pics today?
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I think it's best to vote the following day. I posted my vote then Muppet puts up all those Johnnies!Big smile
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Ok so you need to get your pics up before midnight .
The voting can be made up to 11.45 the next day by any forum member even if they are not participating .
You do not have to put a pic up every day .
COVID is no joke !
One former patient was so brain damaged after , he thought he won an election he lost by 7 million votes .
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Looks like there is a clear winner for yesterdays pic of a very good haul of JDs .
Well done Muppet Clap Clap
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One former patient was so brain damaged after , he thought he won an election he lost by 7 million votes .
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Today's number .

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I happen to have a #17 - I didn't number mine starting at 1. Only got 5 or 6.
So this pic  is here because of the story. Fish took a skirt, and 30 mins or so later I am about to trace it - no trace. Just a tail to grab. Trying to figure WTF is going on - I see the swivel clip jammed in its tail - the clasp bit. Total freak. I think it was bill wrapped, then with the line tension the swivel clip must have pinged open with the tail/body thrashing, straightened, slipped the trace then on the way out the clasp bit jammed in the front edge of the tail. DoA.
Only one we have brought back.
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#17 Took my then 4 year old boy trout fishing. I wasn't overly optimistic, but he caught a trout within 5 minutes of casting a line out! Played it in himself. He was stoked. An unforgettable moment. 

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So it wasn't until I started targetting carrots ,thanks to smudges crew and the grunter hunter that I started to see beauty in our little orange critter🥰
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Good rules Skoti, well done Muppet you deserved that win

Here's a jig caught snapper from 2016 aboard Diversity from memory. Not 100% sure on the boat, but just another typical pannie
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That's a very cool story Alan. you vote by clicking the LIKE tab at the top of each post. Most likes wins the day.
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Originally posted by Alan L Alan L wrote:

Remind me how we vote.
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Just click on the like to vote for a pic .

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Number 17 is just a little Manukau trev from me .
Probably about 10 years ago when I had hair Embarrassed
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I dont have a #17 so here goes something that I will always cherish.

Basically this is more than likely the last 20lb snapper my father is likely to spear, as he no longer jumps in just stays on the boat. (it went 23lb but we will get to this later on)

The morning cracked off like so, packed the boat up the night before, did the pre-dawn drive from Whangarei to the bay of islands and was on the water at 6am.

Now generally fish frames / left over scallop shells / cray bodies get used as berley.. Me being me accidentally grabbed the wrong container of stuff for a berley.. so with it defrosting over night.. there was 2 packets of squid, a few pillies and then atleast half a doz KY fillets.. in the bin, to my surprise when opening the lid on the water getting ready to chuck it overboard in a gut that tends to produce well for big snapper here and there.. thought oh well, its going over now.

Yep I grabbed mums bait bin LOLLOL

The gut is about 20m long and has a width of around 1.5-2m depending on where you are. goes from 8m at the bottom to 15m (an idea of the angle it runs) and you can sit and peer over it in 4m of water.

I took the deeper end and Dad took the shallower end, as he was approaching the gut to peer over all he saw was the face of this fella. Boomfa, Dads shaft didnt even manage to leave the barrel of the gun and he essentially kebabed it.

When the fish got mounted the guy who does the mounts up here was fascinated that this greedy little 68cm snapper had 2 whole KY fillets in its guts and a few squid! Fancy that guys!WinkWink


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That is one fat snapper!

Heres one I caught quite a few moons ago while fishing out behind kawau at flat rock in my mates irb. Remember the day well as it was one of my first big snapper caught on an orange inuchku jig and a curado 200g7.

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Hi All, just been reading thread, I'll have a crack. Firstly being stuck at  home during lock down with super flat seas is excruciatingLOL. When I first took up boat fishing in 2008 it took me two years to finally catch a 30 lb plus Snap. Caught a few more since but always remember this one more so. Caught well before i joined the Forum and before the introduction of measure mats. It was an ugly old fish, decided on not mounting, but remember it as a long bugger! Would of been good to known its length but wasn't important back then.  
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