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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
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Donna,
Good that your daughters are well and thriving.
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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
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I finally uploaded my biggest king around 35 kg.He came up reasonably quickly as I recall
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Another recent Kingie on fly-they are
big at the moment!
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Solid Kings
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Today was a good day.Solid Kingies on
fly-powerful beasts,and memorable takes and battles.
flyrod under pressure
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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.
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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
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Thanks Donna,
I wish your daughter every success
and happiness.
Mark
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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Tight!
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Solid Snapper on fly-fed us for 2 nights.
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Another one
Mac Tuna
in Fishing Reports
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Frigates have a different dorsal fin pattern to a Mac Tuna
Cheers
Mark