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Frigates have a different dorsal fin pattern to a Mac Tuna Cheers Mark

Mac Tuna have up to 3 to 4 spots on their belly.On fly I’ve been getting plenty. Your fish is definitely a Striped Tuna

Donna, Good that your daughters are well and thriving.

Donna,Scratchie,Stewy We are doing OK out there in the Health System-long may it continue. So far,the hospitals are coping with this unprecedented outbreak.I hope your daughter is well. The fishing on fly has been good lately on Kings, but best left to another time to talk about it. Regards to yourself & Stewie. Mark

I finally uploaded my biggest king around 35 kg.He came up reasonably quickly as I recall

Jon The Tuna & King issue are related.We almost had our Kingie stocks wiped out by those unspeakable traps 20 years agoIt took Kingie stocks 15 years to come back.Same with the Tuna.They have been massacred in the Indonesian breeding grounds as well as at our 200 mile exclusion zone for years by international long liners.This is linked inexorably to our decline in tuna stocks.

Jon I’ve fished for those Norfolk Kingies.If you can get the odd one past the sharks well & good.The difference there is that there is only one commercial fisherman there who takes only what’s needed for the restaurants there-he does no damage at all. mark

Jon The Tuna & King issue are related.We almost had our Kingie stocks wiped out by those unspeakable traps 20 years ago.It took Kingie stocks 15 years to come back.Same with the Tuna.They have been massacred in the Indonesian breeding grounds as well as at our 200 mile exclusion zone for years by international long liners.This is linked inexorably to our decline in tuna stocks. Mark

Jon I’m against keeping the big breeders.If I was the boss I’d say you can keep 2 Kings between 65 & 95 cm and the rest go back-what a fishery we would have then! I’m sure that most of those frozen Kings are thrown out in any case mark

That was s moderate King over there. I’m not able to load the monsters as the pics are too big! this smaller one was on fly

I am enjoying the Kingies on fly at the moment here like everyone else.We have a great fishery here. Before Xmas I went to NZ and got some monsters on the jig up to 35 kg and some smaller ones on fly.They were at 100 m deep-very tricky! Mark

Another recent Kingie on fly-they are big at the moment!

Solid Kings

? Today was a good day.Solid Kingies on fly-powerful beasts,and memorable takes and battles. flyrod under pressure

Definitely a black trevally-dirt doesn’t do that.Everything on that fish is black,including the fins.It is not a ‘Papuan’ Trevally,which is basically a GT ie silver coloured with a black hue in parts of it’s flanks.Your fish is totally black.

Looks like a black trevally to me-we got loads on fly at the Rowley Shoals some years ago.A small GT is predominately silver. Mark

Thanks Donna, I wish your daughter every success and happiness. Mark

We are catching up to the Kiwis.The Kingie traps have been banned for nearly 20 years.They almost wiped out our populations of Kingies around Sydney.One trap would snare huge numbers of Kingies. It’s taken that long for the diminished stocks to come back.When I first started this 12 years ago,and a Kingie-normally a rat was a rare capture indeed! They never have had Kingie traps or many pros in NZ,hence their fantastic fishery.We all must make sure that the traps never come back here. I catch fish here well over 80 & 90 cm these days on fly, on occasion-unthinkable 12 years ago! Sydney Kingie

Also that’s a 14 wt flyrod that I was using. It handled all those fish with ease. (Albeit with a few of the usual Hiccups) Mark

That’s my boat-it’s built like a battle tank but flies along with a good safe ride. Happy to help at the ramp.I’ve seen some bizarre things occur on ramps during this time of year!

Scratchie It’s been a while-I’ll put up a few more posts.You are right the arms have been stretched slightly by those NZ beasts! Mark

Brent it’s been a while. I still get out weekly in Sydney. I’ve got a 1850 Stabicraft CC these days. It enables me to fish inshore & offshore with ease. Mark

Tight!

Solid Snapper on fly-fed us for 2 nights.

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