Bigfella
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Amazing how over the years the small boats and motors have got better and everyone thinks the good fishing is out past the shelf because they can now reach that area fairly safely. You can still catch big fish in 60 to 100 Fathoms there are no fences out there. Always fish with the bait.
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Last week fished around Great Barrier Island NZ using soft plastics, live bait, poppers and jigs. Caught and released over 100 fish a day between six of us. Snapper to ten kegs and kings over Twenty kegs. Just goes to show how a fishery can be if its looked after.
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Nice work Damo I,ll be back east shortly with five weeks off hope get a few mid week trips in
Regards
Bob
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Hey Damo have you got the pic of both guys holding the big one horizontally? I think that is a better indication of its size maybe?
Regards Bob.
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Correct mate, its a firmware update.. you can then flip the image or video over using the Gopro Cineform Studio download - Cheers.
Thanks men for the info will have a go at it this week
Regards Bob
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Hey Damo
Tried to get the film on the go pro up the right way but to no avail. hope you can post your pics soon otherwise I have to turn my monitor upside down all the time. Fished back on Sunday with 25knot NEr Magic carpet ride. Love a following sea!!
Regards Bob, PS regards to Mike
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Hi guys,
It was a mixed weekend with us having a terrible day on Sunday out wide with to much current and a 3 hour trip home into that nor-wester that was chugging nicely out wide. However Saturday saw us boat a big fin.
It was great to have Ben and the boys on board and for Kieran & Shane to fight that fish the way they did as first time yellowfin anglers it was an awesome effort - they soon learnt how much hurt a big fin can put on you.
Anyway here is a picture of the fish - interested to see what people think. I have an accurate fork to jaw measurement and have been able to compare it to quite a few fin that have been measured and put on the scales by us and others.
How big boys????
I reckon 72kgs
Cheers Damo
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Gidday Mike
Good luck with the trip tomorrow. For all you fish raiders and friends. Charter Mikes boat the beautiful Reef Magic. I have fished with him for the last 10 years. Great Boat Great crew and he will put you on the fish.
Regards Bob Ridley. PS see you up there Mike.
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Fishing for reds off the hump off stanie we ran into a few inquisitive lethians as well.
They stayed with us for an hour or so until we moved off so we could resume fishing. In fact we first learnt of their presence when i casted a lightly weighted bait intended for a snapper and as it sank must of went across one of their backs. Needless to say the drag wnt into over drive before the line was rubbed out. Biggest thing I've been attached to lately.
Regards Bob.
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Gamerod,
it's Sam mate (friend of Y's from Charing Cross).
I am not sure and i have not found out yet my-self, I have honestly heard from fisho's i know quite well that bluefin is better eating then yellowfin and that yellowfin is better eating then bluefin, so as i said i am not sure as i have not eaten bluefin yet so i can not comment.
one thing (and this is my opinion) and other raider's may agree with me or not on this, these day's i like Albacore more then yellowfin, but having said that a while ago i found out another way to clean them(yellowfin, bluefin, albacore) which from what i have been told when done (which it need's to be done pretty much straight away) i am not quite sure but it some-how very much improve's either the taste or the eating quality of it heap's better as oppose to leaving it and cleaning it later on, I will get to find out and be taught how to do it and how it is done (hopefully) this weekend.
Mate cut a gill plate off rip out the guts fill it with ice, core out the top of the brain and run a flexible wire down the center of the backbone to stop the fish from cooking itself from the inside with heated nerve endings after the fight (breaks of all the nerve ending's). A bit like trying to stop the lactic acid building up. The main thing is to cool the fish and set the meat before cutting. That's how I've learn't to look after premo table tuna anyway.
Regards Bob
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Thanx Winch, I reckon bluefiin has it all over yellow fin and albacore when shashimi. I guess thats why they farm them and the and their highly sought after by the Japanese.Nice fish there brother,
It shows you put in the time and they will come.
I've caught yellow fin but not blue fin yet.
Is blue fin better eating than yellow fin, and where do you think albacore rates with these 2.
I have been trying to plan a trip to New Zealand to catch one of those 300kg blue fin which follow the hokie
factory boats. I'm just waiting for the drug companies to invent a pill which will make me 20 again.
Tight Lines
The Human Winch.
Regards Bob.
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Nice fish mate,what di he go on the scale ? 50 ?
Thanx mate didn't weigh him but I'd say 55 to 60 they are very round and solid. I'm 100 and 6ft 2tall so I make fish look a tad smaller in photo's.
Regard Bob.
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Fished last Friday crappy conditions. Trolled from 70 fathoms and in two fifty ran in to four of these puppies in one strike. Kept this for the table the other still swimming. Great to see southern blue's in these latitudes once more. Although I don't reckon they go as hard as a good yellow fin.
Regards Bob.
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So what is it
looks like the work of a cookie cutter shark.
Regards Bob.
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Thanks for showing the pic bigfella
great little fish,Colours look amazing
Here's some colour of a nice fin we got last season!
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Nice looking fish!!!
Any details on when and where it was captured and what with?
Sure fishlexic, It was caught last season at the Bill fish shoot out at Port Stephens whilst fishing for blue marlin with large lures. These fish are often a good indicator of big blues around and I think the blues probably gobble them up from time to time. Was looking at some old photos and thought this would be a nice one to show.
Regards Bob.
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Hows the colours of this shorty. (Just prior to release)
Regards Bob
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Good work on hooking up to a nice early season blue,
shame to pop the line so close.
cheers
Steve
Would have tagged it anyway had we had time to muck around but I had my daughters formal etc needed to get back before
got home ya no wat i mean?Regards Bob
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Last wednesday went for a shark fish off Stanwell Park. Got one bait chomped but no hookup. Had to pull stumps early needed to be home at three for the kids. Decided to pull the lures for half a and run along through the burley trail. Got wacked by the under water blue missile on 24kg short rigger lumo. After he lit the after burners and did his best for a half kilometer sprint and with only a couple of hundred yards before ping time we started to chase the fish only two up. Got him to the boat on sunset with the fingers clamped round the spool in about fifty minutes. Trying to get him closer one last pump and the line broke on the double. Good fun apart from the seventy five dollars worth of terminal tackle. About 180 to 200 kgs ,thick and very healthy no birds no bait just beautiful blue looking water in 85 Fathoms. Great fun the best part of blue bites is the first run.
regards Bob.
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My pride and joy. 2052wa Trophy with cummins diesel (Break A Leg)
got home ya no wat i mean?
Bluefin
in Gamefishing Grapevine
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Like all tuna best not cooked. Bluefin beats anything hands down if treated properly.