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Jay Burgess

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 24, 2011, 12:22:13 PM
Just wanted to ask about the rod they used to pull in that monster... By TBC, do you mean "to be continued?" or is that the initials of the rod? Like TBL...the blue lagoon

I think possibly, 'To Be Confirmed'...

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 24, 2011, 01:17:48 PM

I think possibly, 'To Be Confirmed'...
Ahhhh, makes much more sense! Thank you, sir

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 25, 2011, 07:35:38 AM
Solid fish for sure, take note of the hand holding the tail scutes you can tell the size of the fish by that section alone!

Luke, do you find the bite slows here in au during spawning? And I presume that spawning is in summer sometime?
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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 25, 2011, 10:41:27 AM


Such an awesome specimen - 65KG of awesomeness,  almost there now.....


......to the dream

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 25, 2011, 03:46:44 PM
Awesome fish especially on the tackle, must have fought the fish perfectly! That is no long a Giant Trevally but a Kong Trevally!!


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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 25, 2011, 05:07:40 PM
That's one solid fish, well done, any idea how old a fish like that would be???

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 25, 2011, 05:11:37 PM
Nice fish - lovely colouring!


Interesting to see that a Twinpower 12000HG did the damage - was going to sell mine but may just keep it as a reserve reel!

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 25, 2011, 05:29:12 PM
Great capture, one A class fish there. 8min is amazing :-)
PoPpInG mAd

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 26, 2011, 05:31:44 PM
Big fish! Kudos to the victor  :)

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 27, 2011, 09:23:37 PM
A donkey class Geet!!!!

As an artistic image, it's a lovely piece of living art.

Luke,
however, I think that it's nice to see a more in perspective shot just to see if the average forum member can honestly gauge the sizes of the fish that they may run into.

Unless you have worked on a vessel like Nomad, the average bloke would not be able to gauge weight without having the fish weighed, so yes, I think I can understand the "broken record" repetitive question of "where is the normal pic?".........we all want to have an understanding of the weight classes of fish we encounter and the photos posted on here are looked at hard and judging the weight/length is a primary motive for the images to be looked at so intensely. You need to rack up a heap of GT's to get OK at sizing them up and for a lot of forum members, it happens too infrequently.  These images posted on here are part of a learning data base.

I understand that there is a great deal of Japanese anglers who prefer this style of wide image, though there are forum members trying to learn and appreciate these creatures from these images; well, I understand their point of view too.

Don't let it get ya down mate!

Awesome GT.........Awesome.

Cheers

Aaron.

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 28, 2011, 05:10:59 AM
Amazing fish. Fish of a lifetime for most anglers.

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
July 29, 2011, 08:44:34 PM
Amazing fish. Fish of a lifetime for most anglers.

Most anglers? Jeeze

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
August 02, 2011, 05:09:11 PM
For me I like these wide angle pic. Nothing wrong with the wide angle as long as the size of the fish was measured.

Anyway just my 2cents  :)

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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
August 03, 2011, 04:05:00 AM
Respect for landing this beast, awesome catch.

40kg / 45kg would be fish of a lifetime for most - this is a fish of a few life times!

Any idea of the fork length?
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Re: Tokara GT News - 65kg Monster
August 19, 2011, 07:39:05 PM
Here is the rod & line information.

ROD: Ripple Fisher Ultimo 79
Line: PE#6 + nylon 130LB