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    MORE SBT COMING TO SYDNEY.

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    Don't know if anyone else like yourself fisholb have noticed a massive amount fishos dropping fish like myself. Never have had this happen. The only thing that has changed in my fishing style is that I've gained a lot more confidence in fishing lite tackle with heavy braid line and 50 to 80lbs trace. So I've upped the drag a fair bit. Didn't think sbt had semi soft mouths but maybe not tuff enough to hold a hook under heavy drag. One of the SBTs on Monday that we caught had the hook just fall out as we sat her in the boat.

    Would love to hear what people's thoughts are on that.

    Sorry if it's hijacking the thread but thought it all fits into the prepping for the next run of fish.

    MORE SBT COMING TO SYDNEY.

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    After last Tuesday don't think many boats will give numbers .Not until their bagged out or broken .A lot Crazy stupid people out

    running over lines cutting each other off.

    It was a little like that Monday too. My lines in another's prop whilst cubing.

    Let's hope your wrong and it doesn't stop people from communicating. Numbers will hold some action. Proof was Monday. Boats held the fish virtually all day. Unheard of.

    Big Bluefin on 15kg

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    No way that fish was fitting through the door. Still, deserved his freedom I think; hope he enjoys his new jewellery.

    That makes a lot of sense. We hit the fish with solid drag early and then after 2 hours went for broke on sunset. Fish then went straight down 500m ... Unstoppable.

    Kingies do the same thing. People just choose to nail it at sunset for the fight. The light the tackle the higher they stay. Generally speaking. There are exceptions to the rule. Sometimes one can just be unlucky.

    Big Bluefin on 15kg

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    Adrian got more views of it than I did, and when we debriefed later, he kept saying he was trying to work out how the hell we were going to fit it through the access door !

    I was more we would have just tied it on the swim platform.

    But we could both see either one or both of us taking a swim if we hit it green!

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    Haha. I can only imagine the pain and dilemma about where to fit the fish. Must've been terrible. [emoji12]

    I think I'd wee myself from excitement if I saw that in the end of my line. Hahaha.

    The best thing is that it was caught in Sydney I might add. [emoji106]

    Big Bluefin on 15kg

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    You have made some really good comments there, well presented.

    Was one of our thoughts, the size of the fish we had, and we did have it to the back of the boat a few times, we were just not set up to try and boat a green fish of that size.

    thanks.

    I would say that a green tuna is so much safer to boat than a green marlin. That's for sure. Hahaha

    Big Bluefin on 15kg

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    srollo, obviously you are unaware of Karens talents. Tiddles has a number of world records under her belt. She is president of SGFC and her husband Glen is a past presso.

    They are well known for light tackle fishing so a fish that size on 15 is not hard for them to do in 35min, considering they can tag and release a marlin in a minute. When you have a crew and skipper that work well together and have done so for more years than you would of spent at school experience counts. If you still don't believe it it's on video.

    If yr aware of that then you should also be aware of crews feeding a fish to the boat just above a gaff whilst getting fed super lite tackle in his mouth. Just for the record in the past. I think that is bull.

    I think all fast catches deserve questioning. 35 mins is not one of them. I think that was a combo of a good fisherman, team and a lucky run on the fish. 15kg is the breaking strain so drag would not be been more than 10 to 12kg. Not much to hold back on a beast like that. Infact the luck is the low drag. Fish would've maybe stayed on the surface without diving because prolly didn't really feel in trouble. Next step is to chase it down. Hit the drag hard as it gets close to catch up and if luck played their way which it did they'd gaff it green. That's where all the experience lays.

    Even though I don't support that kind of fishing I don't really chase records or fish for marlin. I fish to eat but enjoy a fight. I will only chase a fish if I run out of line. Even then I prolly let it spool me in a fair fight as he deserves to live. He earnt it.

    15 mins as first mentioned was perfectly fair to question as to how a monster 143kg bft could be caught. 35mins is possible depending on the above mentioned.

    Epic Day off Sydney.. Bluefin everywhere

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    Hey Damo

    Was listening to you guys and everyone else. But we had major issues with our radio. Couldn't communicate. We could hear but no one heard us. So we just got on with the job.

    I was in the 7.4m white Sea Hunt that was double hooked on first run and triple hooked the second with only two of us on board in the late afternoon about 4pm. We got totally wiped out physically pulling in 5 bluefin between 40 and 45kgs in an hour but one dropping.

    We dropped another three. Strikes for the day were: one on the troll, four on live yakkas, one on pillie and one on squid.

    What an awesome day with fish smashing the surface, massive jumping out of the water and a huge amount of anglers leaving with quota filled very quickly.

    Heard a few accidents onboard some vessels too. A self hook, self stab and I think a dislocated shoulder or something along those lines. Hope they are all ok. Would've helped with the stitching but count reply.

    Many boats

    were very respectful bar a few that couldn't help but cut very close over our cube trail and lines. The other cut so close that they did pick up both our lines into their prop. Might've been the divers in the alloy boat. Was peeves off but they might not know a fisho's comfort zone.

    All in all a very exhilarating day. Reminded me of 2007 when it was ridiculous.

    Good luck tomorr fellas.

    bluefin arrive off sydney

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    I'll be out tomorrow. Call sign FinFinder

    Call sign toona time

    Awesome stuff. Best of luck to you guys. Hopefully between us we should locate some action. Might be a rough start till the water settles. At least it won't be a hard ride home.

    We'll be heading to the southern canyons to start with. Not much temp indications due to clouds but a nice altimetry pattern just sth of brownes running diagonally. Just had a super quick look on my phone. Won't know exactly till I get on my puter.

    See you all out there.

    bluefin arrive off sydney

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    Ok, we can help you out here. I was fishing with Ian Bat and we were the boat hooked up for over 2 1/2 hours. The reason the rod didn't look bent is because I had to put the 24kg reel on my old Brookfield 60k broomstick that bends like a crowbar and kills at both ends. Of all the outfits to stay connected after our 4 way pack-attack this was the one we didn't want. Anyway, this fish was freaking huge. Like Ian said we saw it 5 times and after over 2 hours it headed straight down with the drag on sunset and showing no signs of tiring. I have no idea how I wasn't spooled. We tried a lot of things to get close enough to gaff it, the fish was having none of it. We learnt a lot though.

    Good luck to those heading out over the weekend. We will give it another go sometime in the next couple of weeks.

    What would you estimate the size to be?

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