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A wee Specimen Blue

#1 Post by Davy Holt »

Hiya,

Linda had this wee girlie yesterday while fishing aboard Mohawk's boat Deora Dé out from Cobh :)

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#2 Post by spindlefist »

the image has been removed but I'm sure it was a beauty, well done :P
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#3 Post by Davy Holt »

Hiya,
spindlefist wrote:the image has been removed but I'm sure it was a beauty, well done :P
that's it working now
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#4 Post by bigsod »

Thats a cracking fish, well done Linda.
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#5 Post by wayne riley »

super stuff linda,
well done
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#6 Post by doggie3131 »

thats one cracking blue,well done linda!! :mrgreen:
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#7 Post by MAC »

Fantastic Fish, well done.
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#8 Post by Tomaszek »

It looks like the fish got a hole in its snout?
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#9 Post by brianbru »

thats a cracker, well done
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#10 Post by janie tyler »

Cracking fish well done
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#11 Post by Davy Holt »

Hiya,
Tomaszek wrote:It looks like the fish got a hole in its snout?
That would be it's Eye :)

we now have a estimated weight of between 200lb and 220lb for it, so it could well have broken the Irish record :)
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#12 Post by dan »

nice fish, want one soon will get it hopefully, only a small one will do me, yea just about 100 lol. :lol:
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#13 Post by Tomaszek »

That would be it's Eye
Hey Davy,
I was rather asking about that mark further down from the eye. Was curious whether it is some sort of natural scar or rather something that happen in the process of landing the fish.

Anyway that is a very nice fish.

How did you guys estimated its weight? I'm assuming that based on TL, FL and G (can't remember the equation exactly - the one with 800 factor in it). I'm curious what was the total length of that fish.

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#14 Post by Davy Holt »

Hiya,
Tomaszek wrote:
That would be it's Eye
Hey Davy,
I was rather asking about that mark further down from the eye. Was curious whether it is some sort of natural scar or rather something that happen in the process of landing the fish.
Ah that unfortunatly was damage done by the hook during the fight and when the fish was being held at the side of the boat.
How did you guys estimated its weight? I'm assuming that based on TL, FL and G (can't remember the equation exactly - the one with 800 factor in it). I'm curious what was the total length of that fish.

All the best!
The first estimate of over 180lb came from me trying to lift the fish into the boat myself, having had way more than my fare share of Commons I knew it was a heavy fish. The estimated weight of 200 - 220lb has come about after comparing the fish to the pictures of the Welsh record Blue which was held in the exact same position so we were able to take a comparison off that.
Dimension wise it was 109 TL, girth was 42" and the FL was 90.2"
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#15 Post by Tomaszek »

Great stuff Davy, congratulations once again!
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#16 Post by Gary Morton »

well done that girl nice fish that just proves there is deffently something different with women fermones and fishing :D :D
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#18 Post by Tom H »

Super blue well done :D
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#19 Post by twinkle »

a big wow to linda super catch id say the fight will stay in your mind everytime you go out on the boat well done
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#20 Post by ronanohal »

Amazing fish. Have to say well done on putting it back and not trying to claim a record just for the sake of it. Great to know that fish is still out there for someone else to catch. I definitely think something needs to be done regards the records lists to allow captures like this to stand. Not that I have much chance of ever making it onto them :oops:
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