First Popper made, first cast, first fish
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Topic: First Popper made, first cast, first fish
Posted By: Xtoad
Subject: First Popper made, first cast, first fish
Date Posted: 09 May 2011 at 9:26pm
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Been looking for this pic for a while - sorry it is ten years old.
Made this popper and a few like it from some pine dowel back in the '90s somewhere. Took them to Barrier on a trip and came across a workup just outside Fitzroy. Banged a cast in thinking I would be in for a xos kahawai and this fella turned up! An hour later the baitrunner and ugly stick helped me get it in on 8kg.
Still my most memorable fish. I had no idea at that point that one day I would seriously consider spending $190 on a stickbait. Finding this makes me realise I will never need to.
Stu
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Posted By: Raumatibeach
Date Posted: 09 May 2011 at 9:28pm
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Very cool.
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Posted By: Saltiga
Date Posted: 09 May 2011 at 9:28pm
| choice bro |
Posted By: daveo
Date Posted: 09 May 2011 at 9:34pm
| Wicked cool |
Posted By: TIN RIB
Date Posted: 10 May 2011 at 9:52am
Havent seen one of those for years , is it called a Yellowfin 
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Posted By: Millkman
Date Posted: 10 May 2011 at 11:26am
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Memorable! ------------- Getdatfish |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 10 May 2011 at 11:32am
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Posted By: LEVCAT
Date Posted: 12 May 2011 at 10:41pm
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so cool - thanks for sharing with us |
Posted By: JK
Date Posted: 12 May 2011 at 10:54pm
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Now that is special. A really memorable capture indeed! ------------- LedgeNZ LBG |
Posted By: mozz
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 3:34am
| Thats a real nice fin on 8! how long did you have it just under the boat? |
Posted By: Red Hunter
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 3:11pm
Good one mate , should have put it in the lure challenge .
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Posted By: Xtoad
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 7:17pm
You've obviously been there Mozz - at least 30 mins! Was the worst 30 mins of my fishing career! Most marlin I had caught had been in in less than half that time, I wasn't sure what was going on.
"Good one mate , should have put it in the lure challenge"
Funny Ian, the lure challenge was what made me hunt this down - I was seriously going to enter it. Thought the better of it though when I saw Denis' effort - didn't want to take the piss.
Has inspired me to get into it though - am about to buy a new house and the main requisite was a pair of man rooms for rod building and lure painting.
Stu
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mozz wrote:Posted By: Rat Catcher
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 7:24pm
Chur......
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