SPECIMEN WRASSE ON THE LURE 25/10/2011

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#1 Post by **lucky** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:48 pm

Have been looking for bass for a long time now local to where i live, today i decided to look at a rock mark very close to where i live, i had only a two hour window as the kids where for collecting from school, spinning rod in hand and some lures off i went , when i got to the rock mark the sea was boiling with fish, yes pollock and coalies coming clean out of the water feed on the small bait fish, it was the biggest boil i have ever seen, it was almost as big as a football pitch, first cast ,pollock and pollock every cast best was around 2 pound mark, then the coalies showed up best was arouind the pound and a half, in the two hours i had over 30 fish landed all returned, time to collect the kids from school, on the way out to the car i fancied one more cast into some shallow water,bang what the hell is this , it hit so hard i thought i found a local bass, it ran like hell, at one stage i just held on and hoped for the best,, some i got to grips with it and got it close to the rock edge, it was a cracking wrasse, finally got it onto the rocks, feck this i had no scales with me but i reckon it was around the 5 to 6 pound, i measured it from the butt of the rod to the bail arm on the reel, returned the fish , got home later and put a tape from the butt end to the bail arm and measured just under 21 inchs....

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#2 Post by **lucky** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:52 pm

is there a way of getting a approx weight from the lenght of the fish......

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#3 Post by **tight lines** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:56 pm

now thats a session great fishing alan and super wrass

#4 Post by **tight lines** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:59 pm

http://www.fishconverter.com
6lb 8oz approx

#5 Post by **yngkmd** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:00 pm

good fish

try this http://www.fishconverter.com/

#6 Post by **lucky** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:05 pm

tight lines wrote:http://www.fishconverter.com
6lb 8oz approx

thanks for that mate, never knew about the fish converter.

#7 Post by **fishy1987** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:18 pm

congratulations on the specimen a absolute Monster of a wrasse there

#8 Post by **nicefish** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:23 pm

That was some session, well done on the Wrasse that jointed lure must be in bits after that session.

#9 Post by **dave316** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:36 pm

awesome catch, well done on a lure too. i'm sure you were guessing allsorts before you seen it

#10 Post by **Jayball10** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:37 pm

Cracker of a Wrasse mate. Well done.

#11 Post by **Big Bass** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:18 pm

Not too shabby for 2hrs fishing,nice catch,well done

#12 Post by Al » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:22 am

Nice session Lucky, that is one pig of a wrasse fairplay!

#13 Post by **eyesreilly** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:39 pm

Well done Alan, thats a stonker

kevface · #14 Post by **kevface** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:53 pm

That's a cracker of a fish, especially on the lure! According to that converter its around the 4lb mark which looks about right, maybe closer to 5lb since its a chunky lookin fella. Congrats on it

#15 Post by Al » Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:08 pm

kevface wrote:That's a cracker of a fish, especially on the lure! According to that converter its around the 4lb mark which looks about right, maybe closer to 5lb since its a chunky lookin fella. Congrats on it

Just did the converter there and it's closer to 7lb

#16 Post by **Al and Jordan** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:08 pm

that was a great result for a couple of hours alan and that wrasse was a thumper of a fish man

i had a look at that fish converter for my bass and it was very accurate indeed. i'll be saving that site to my bookmarks

great fishing man

#17 Post by **The Austrian** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:50 pm

wow, magic report and results there Alan, congrats to the new specimen

, never had Wrasse on lure, Lucky as your nick is definitely the right choice

#18 Post by **onur** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:55 pm

if i were you call the scholl and told them car dosent work and their mummy on the way to collect them,and then call wife, told her car dosent work and you have been waiting AA ,so she should go collect kids,
after all job done

keep fishing ......
ps:after tAlk to wife do not forget to turn of the phone....
happpy fishing all.....

#19 Post by **stevief54** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:44 pm

cracking wrasse well done

kevface · #20 Post by **kevface** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:11 am

Al wrote:
kevface wrote:That's a cracker of a fish, especially on the lure! According to that converter its around the 4lb mark which looks about right, maybe closer to 5lb since its a chunky lookin fella. Congrats on it

Just did the converter there and it's closer to 7lb

Its 18 inches once you take into consideration the more left position of the measuring tape in the photo without the fish (look at the position of its head relative to the end of the spool vs the position of the tape relative to the end of the spool) - 46cm - put it into the converter and its 3 lb 15 oz. But as I said its a chunky lookin critter, probably from its apparent diet of fish!

Lucky, what bs line did you use to haul it in? They are arm wreckers on the first run! Well done on getting it in either way

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