Who is DOUG? Check out these fish instead!!
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:25 am
Just moved over to the UK and was a bit sad to miss the runoff but i am more than making up for it just walking around the village!
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Who is DOUG? Check out these fish instead!!
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 6:09 am
Keep your eye out for Doug over there when your wandering
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 6:57 am
Wicked fish mate. Looks prehistoric. Nice razor chompers. What type of fish is it? Give you much of a fight?
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 7:17 am
Cool. Spooky fish!
Cheers
Cheers
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 7:59 am
I think it is a pike of some sort. 2nd fish would be an English Perch or Redfin. One of the delightful introduced species into Australia. Very cool by the way 
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:10 am
The first fish is a European pike the grow to 25-30 kg
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:16 am
Pike & Perch!
Good Fish.
Good Fish.
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 9:06 am
Beautiful fish. My dad has a picture of huge pike he caught as a teenager in the UK, best fish he has caught. When he came to Australia he caught bigger redfin in the Murray River than they had back in the UK where the redfin came from.
Chase some barbel Banjo, supposedly the pinnacle of UK coarse fishing. Although carp seem to have the biggest following, weird eh.
Gotta love UK fishing, you can buy maggots in different colours and sizes at the best bait shops
Chase some barbel Banjo, supposedly the pinnacle of UK coarse fishing. Although carp seem to have the biggest following, weird eh.
Gotta love UK fishing, you can buy maggots in different colours and sizes at the best bait shops
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 9:51 am
Well done mate
Matt you get maggots in all different colours and sizes around Darwin here
Matt you get maggots in all different colours and sizes around Darwin here
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:30 am
nice fish there well done
good to see you can just go for a wander and a flick and have a bit of fun
good to see you can just go for a wander and a flick and have a bit of fun
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 6:55 pm
Yep they are Pike and Redfin. The pike do fight pretty well and iv been catching them on 8 lb line so its good fun in the canal with no snags around! Seriously aggressive fish when they see your lure, i have nailed every one of them that i have sight cast to. They have a massive gob and have no worries swallowing large lures. Some of them jump like Barra also and slash those teeth around! So far out of 3 half day sessions iv landed 15 Pike and 2 good Perch. Went out for a couple of hours yesterday to try and get one on a big Rapala Skitter Pop and hooked a huge perch but lost him at the bank. Have caught a lot of perch in my time but never on a surface lure! Yes Matt the Barbel look like they would pull pretty hard and they grow to a decent size but the river season is closed for about 3 months and i don't think you get many in the canals. Getting the pike nutted out now so going up to 15 lb line to chase some bigger ones at some more out of the way places.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 6:58 pm
A seriously beautiful animal.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:03 pm
Nice fish, what's it got to do with Doug?
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:29 pm
It means stop all the forum bickering and post some fish stories.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:36 pm
Any good to eat?Banjo wrote:A seriously beautiful animal.