What were they thinking?
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Printed Date: 03 Feb 2026 at 4:36pm
Topic: What were they thinking?
Posted By: ChrisW
Subject: What were they thinking?
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 1:06pm
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Thought I would post this up to see what odd ball fish you have caught on jigs or fish on odd ball jigs?
This LJ is not the hook dressing, it took a Gammie TU35 (12/0) hook in its mouth. As you can see the jig is almost as big as the LJ. The LJ would do well to even wrap its jaws around a bait fish that size. What was it thinking??
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Posted By: ChrisW
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 1:20pm
Pony Liu or AG from Jigging Master sits on his 68+kg Bass from the 3 Kings 2006. Look at the size of that jig to that behemoth  That jig would hardly be a slurp for that fish. What was it thinking??
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Posted By: Moocha
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 1:58pm
Daaaaaaamn thats a pony sitting on a horse  bloody impressive.
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Posted By: Bender
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 2:40pm
And on a very, very bad hair day to boot. ------------- Nobody has ever come up with a great idea after a second bottle of water. |
ChrisW wrote:Posted By: JTF
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 4:05pm
Eagle Ray |
Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 4:30pm
How about this gurnard? A rough day out West.
 ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 4:56pm
| in the latest fishing news has an interesting article and pictures showing the contents of a B.O.Is 'puka's guts....2 x 250grm jig and one large hook....4th time not so lucky it would seem!. |
Posted By: Peter da Squid
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 5:23pm
| heard Mozz was going to go with those hair styles |
Posted By: sooshee
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 7:04pm
| I once caught a 10cm wrasse on a 15cm jig. It wasn't foul hooked as the 11/0 hook had gone cleanly through the upper jaw. My theory was that the wrasse thought the jig was another fish competing for its food (the hook). |
Posted By: Capt Asparagus
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 8:54pm
Must be something about pink fish.....
 ..and then, seconds later... same jig....
 Go on, name that last fish! (I already know, Initials are ssp.)
And, although the pinky at the top was trying to eat it, what on earth was the.... ssp... trying to do??? :-)
cheers, Stu.
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Posted By: sooshee
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 9:12pm
Mate with it???
 Rays Bream are suckers for jigs too. We caught about 7 of these on the one jig:
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Posted By: JTF
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2007 at 11:02pm
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Lost my pic of Rays Bream
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Posted By: ChrisW
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2007 at 11:53pm
these fish are deeeelicous!
 Thin fillets too! ------------- give it death! |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2007 at 7:10am
Not an nsp? ------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: seansurfy
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2008 at 9:10pm
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Caught this on a jig at Frederick Reef in the Coral Sea.......never seen one before...possibly a 'flute mouth' or 'flute fish'...pretty weird though
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Posted By: Capt Asparagus
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2008 at 9:21pm
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Nope, ssp according to my book at least. That is a very big flutefish! Get quite a few of them in tropical lagoons around the pacific, they are suckers for flies or soft plastics. Cheers, Stu. |
Posted By: Uhunter
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2008 at 11:13pm
Not on a jig but out of the ordinary 1.6m long by 0.6m wide. |
Posted By: roughy
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 7:39am
cool thread 
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Posted By: Fissure
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 8:46am
Wow, thats one serious squid!!!!!
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Posted By: Capt Asparagus
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 9:15am
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A Serious Squid? Is that a different species? Like Arrow, Broad, colossal, and curious ? :-) How can ou tell it is a Serious? Is it the number of tentacles, or the colour of the mantle? Cheers, Stu. |
Posted By: Uhunter
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 3:35pm
Blue Maomao at Waihau at New Year. Dad caught a pink maomao at White on Sunday.
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Posted By: cookie monster
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 7:01pm
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cool squid.....
i had a session at hunters one night where we caught over a dozen squid all on long jigs. Often ill head out early to try and pick up a squid while its still dark, they are suckers for long jigs, only problem is they are hard to hook on the assist hook......bang on a treble and your off, taste great and wicked bait when fresh!
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Posted By: JohnnyP
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2008 at 5:58pm
| That Squid would make one hell of a snapper bait on a stry line! |
Posted By: orange ruffie
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2008 at 10:01pm
| that would be a killer live bait at the banks |