Colin Hay's 82 cm Flatrock Snook/Pike

Colin Hay's 82 cm Flatrock Snook/Pike

I thought this might have been a herring when it first made a tenative enquiry of my bait, then it started peeling line from my Stradic reel and I knew this was no herring.

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What a ripper good snook

Sun, 2009-10-04 15:10

What a ripper good snook from the beach have had some that size out three mile but normaly only small ones inside the reef.

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Thanks Paul

Sun, 2009-10-04 17:57

I think there may have been a few around as Stu lost a good fish which bit him off and it looked like a similar sized snook.

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yeh thats a nice size snook

Sun, 2009-10-04 19:21

yeh thats a nice size snook but what u do with them lol ?? shit fish  to eat

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You will have to ask Uncle Stu DhuBoi

Mon, 2009-10-05 08:44

He said he has eaten them before and they were ok, so I gave him that fish.
I do know the smaller ones make pretty good mulloway baits.

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Cracker snook there Colin

Sun, 2009-10-04 19:51

Cracker snook there Colin

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Thanks Craig

Mon, 2009-10-05 08:43

It ran hard early, but - unlike a tailor - gave up after that one hard run.

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Bait

Mon, 2009-10-05 12:22

Yep some good mulloway and snapper bait there.

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schecky got one this mornin

Mon, 2009-10-05 12:58

schecky got one this mornin on plastics at the lighthouse at hillaries that woulda gone maybe 70cm. gave him some curry bit it gave up pretty quickly

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He wouldn't have had much of the plastic

Mon, 2009-10-05 14:07

left I would think with the teeth those monsters have.
There certainly seems to be a few about.

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There in plague proportions

Fri, 2009-10-09 08:59

There in plague proportions in gero aswell ay

bit of a pest when tailor hunting

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Yes Rueben

Fri, 2009-10-09 09:26

They seem to hang around with the tailor schools a bit.

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yea

Mon, 2009-10-05 14:14

yea! a lot of the plastics were coming back with slit-like bite marks in them.

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I can imagine Liam

Mon, 2009-10-05 14:17

I wouldn't like one to get a grasp on a finger.

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it actually almost took a

Mon, 2009-10-05 14:25

it actually almost took a bit off my leg whne reub was swinging it up onto the rock. glad it was too buggered to do it lol. you wouldnt have much of a finger left after one of them is done with it!

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nice little bitey thing you

Mon, 2009-10-05 19:09

nice little bitey thing you have there , looks like fun trying to get those hooks out

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It wasn't too bad Russ and Sandy

Mon, 2009-10-05 19:39

Once it got past trying to have a taste of Bobo's nose it settled down pretty quickly - and the long nosed pliers made sure it didn't have a crack at my fingers.

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good fighters?

Fri, 2011-09-02 17:04

ive caught plenty of snook about 45cm and they hardly pull but i guess one that size would be alright