Blue Groper
Submitted by Guardy on Fri, 2017-06-16 21:28
Went out fishing to the 40's west of Garden Island with Ritchie Chantler and Pete D from Fishwreck. First drift Ritchie pulled up a 47cm Baldy. Pete followed up with a Dhuie that was just on size, he decided not to risk it shrinking and sent it back down. He then came up with a Blackarse. About a couple hours later and several moves Ritchie came up trumps once more with a beautiful 12Kg (approx) Blue Groper. I say approx as our scales were close to maxing out. Bloody weather played havoc with our trying to drift with the wind and current opposing at times. Consequently very little drift. All fish were caught on Oceanside Tackle and Marine Occy. Tried soft plastics and jigs but no go, Bugger. Cheers Ritchie for taking us out.
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hezzy
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nice one guardy , that will
nice one guardy , that will eat well on the fang
its funny thing how often groper are caught on light wind , slow drift days out wide especially in the 40s , reckon they must be a bit lazy when it comes to chasing a rig
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meglodon
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Great catch
Well done on catching a nice bluey.
kirky79
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Nice Blue
They are a solid fish. Looks every bit 12 or more
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Well done Guys!!! Fantastic
Well done Guys!!! Fantastic Metro Fish!!!!
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Nice fish, gotta be happy with that.
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Sweet
Nice bluey, good fish for the metro.
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Crikey
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Superb metro capture. Great
Superb metro capture. Great to see the variety on offer from local waters.Yet to tick that box.
piston broke
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What camera
were you using ? great photo and fish
Pete D
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Camera
My Samsung S5! A little time to compose the right shot makes a difference...much to Ritchie's complaining!
That BG had us guessing all the way up!
A enjoyable day on the water..thanks Richie.
Cheers Pete
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Well done!!
Thanks for sharing Frank - never knew that they were around on our Metro waters.
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Guardy
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I have seen them while diving
here in the metro area but I have never seen them being caught except up off Two rocks while fishing with Ryan Thipthorp. He caught one and then a week later I hooked up on one but lost it when my line broke. Maybe now we will be seeing them more often. My concern with that is they are apparently very hard to return. I know the one Ritchie caught, even though brought to the surface very slowly, was blown to hell. There was no way in hell we could have sent it back down to survive.