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QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby stitcho » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:40 pm

Managed to miss the longtail season this year, so was pretty happy to pick up this late one.

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21kg, cleaned and bled.


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Will be eating tuna for a month.


Cheers,


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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby ArWeTherYet » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:52 pm

Thats bloody huge stitcho!

Not sure I'd want to take a bath with one , but what people do in there own home is there business.
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby indiedog » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:57 pm

Stonker. Were you drifting a plastic?
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby Bigdyl » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:58 pm

Haha my missus would flip if I put one of them in the bath!! :D awesome fish bud and great eating too
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby noddy » Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:08 pm

Fantastic fish mate. And I don't think you quite missed the last of them!
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby imnotoriginal » Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:15 pm

Quality fish there Damo, well done.

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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby baptism » Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:52 pm

very nice fish, seems to be a couple of late season tuna around still
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby yak69 » Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:01 pm

Solid fish.
Can't wait to get one of them myself.
Deserves a beer or two I reckon.
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby dazza11 » Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:13 pm

Great fish mate , welldone.
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby Wrassemagnet » Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:28 pm

great fish that's huge! I'd like to know how you caught it too.
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby BIGKEV » Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:54 am

Bigdyl wrote:Haha my missus would flip if I put one of them in the bath!!


+1

You're a braver man than me.....

Cracker of an LT, certainly a much better specimen than some of the other models that have been seen earlier in the year.

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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby Bogey » Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:28 am

What a monster !!
You are a genius Damo.
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby RedPhoenix » Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:37 am

Niiiiiiice.
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby richmond » Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:26 am

Ripper fish mate, well done.

I'm hanging to land a 20kg Longtail.
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Re: QLD: Sunshine Coast Tuna 5/8

Postby HardPlastic » Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:19 am

Caught 5 min from the ramp and back in before 7. About 30 seconds before he goes "Wow I just saw a big arch on my sounder. Hardly ever happens" and then zzzzzziiiiiiinnnngg! "Got a snapper" he says. "Not that big, think I fowl hooked him." A minute later.. "hmmm might be a bit better than i thought".

Then my trolled line is over his feet (thats how close we are when he hooks up) and there are some tense moments as Damo calmly sorts it out and his stupid friend paddles well out of the way. Then he goes "Its a longtail" So I get even further out of the way.

I call him about 45 min later and he is back at the ramp. Not bad for 5min + 40 min work.

Nicely done Damo. You the man.
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