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Finally did it. Ten kilo snapper on ten weight rod plus 25 lb tippet off the rocks. Also caught a five kilo fish.
 
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A story like that deserves a much more detailed post Mr WWink GET Busy
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Excellent work Craig!!

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that's one fine fine achievement there craig...
awesome stuff, great photo as well...
 
did you release it?
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Congratulations Craig, what a fish. Waiting to hear all about it.
There's more to fishing than catching fish - but catching fish is a big part of it.
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Fantastic achievement, has to be one of the all time great NZ captures...... serious fishing!
Which mag are we going to have to get?
I'm in the UK at the moment annoying pike with Clark's Fat Boys.
Well done Craig.
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Well done Craig, that's way up there with the best of the bestThumbs%20Up
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Farking well done that man Thumbs%20Up

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nice foto ....i likes.. well done
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Thanks everyone. We kept this one. A little bit of panic after pulling it back from its two hundred metre run across two kelp coated bombies. So the gaff went in. Released the next one (which looked almost as big in the pics but we called it five to six kilos). Josh didn't even stop fishing when I hooked it - he was that pessimistic about me landing it.
Fish was hooked on a blind drift with the FBI fly down deep. I had just teased a big fish with my huge rooster fly and lost a massive kahawai (that looked all of six kilos) as well as ripping the hook on something else very big (I called it four a good trevally Josh reckoned a big snapper). Everything went quiet after that so I picked up the smaller fly and rod and tried a deeper drift slightly further down the rocks.
Hook up was like snagging a moving rock. Just heaps of unstoppable weight that turned into a howling screaming run straight out to sea. The drag was set fairly light and I lost a lot of backing. There was no point putting pressure on until it stopped because there were rocks and kelp between me and the fish. It just went and went.
When it slowed I retrieved as hard as I could with as much pressure as possible. There was a couple of worrying moments with the fish down in the kelp. And the fish powered down a few more times when I finally started to get colour. Some very anxious moments followed. Luckily the hook held and the fish didn't manage to crush it or bite the leader. Finally got it. Very stoked Thumbs%20Up. But it would have been more sensible to hook it on the twelve weight!
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You son of a BI*TCH! That's an awesome capture Craig!!! Probably the most meritorious fly rod capture from the land in recent years that I have heard of.
 
Certainly a fish of a lifetime and one to be supremely proud of.
 
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Great work Craig
I'm sure you've worked hard for that
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Thinking about it a bit more, "Did it" was pobably the under-statement of the year on F.net
10kg's on a fly rod, off the rocks is massive.
 
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Words fail me- I think I'll just keep staring at that picture!

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Wicked as! Is that a record fish on fly?
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Thanks everyone. Clark, I'm gonna tell my mother what you called her LOLLOLLOL
 
That fish has been the culmination of a lot of things. It's all been about finding out how to feed a fly to them off the rocks and then how to stop them.
 
I would not recommend anyone using a ten weight on these fish. That was a little accidental after switching into trevally mode.
 
As for records - I don't think anyone has kept any sort of archive of big SWF captures in NZ. Only those weighed under IGFA rules at game clubs are in the books. Certainly no rock category recorded for SWF anywhere. Maybe somebody should start?
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congrats Craig...that is awesome!!!
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Fantastic work Craig, very well done.......
 
I agree totally. A fish caught of the bricks is a massive achievement, there should be a record to get for those fish.
This is the fish of the year!
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wicked shet!!...thats soo coool..well done
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Top effort Craig, that's a brilliant capture and just reward for the effort that goes into getting this kind of result Clap

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