Bride snares a whopper

Newman resident Melinda Riebe celebrated her nuptials by snaring this 12kg Spanish mackerel about 3km off Barn Hill Station.

Picture by John Riebe

Riebe and husband John had only married two days previously at Echo Beach last June before the wife showed who was boss when handling a fishing rod.

“It put up a pretty good fight,” John said of the fish.

“But Mel managed to reel it in.”