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| Big old fish |
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| Let it swim off free..... |
Monday, November 21, 2011
Big Sydney bream
Got this sucker on white bread the other day... good fun on light gear! Easy kilo plus'er
Dave does New Zealand BRU
The trip I and 7 others had been frothing over for months had finally dawned. We were heading over to Tairua to jig up some bug kungies bru!
The fishing was difficult but still, some nice fish were boated.
My best was a 40lb kingy on the jig gear, the trip best was about 50lb.
There was some interesting sealife out there...
Will have to go over again and get some bigger pigs, one day.
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| Noel bent on a 20+ kungy |
The fishing was difficult but still, some nice fish were boated.
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| 30 lb of dirty Kiwi |
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| A nicey on the livebait |
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| Hooked up to a train |
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| Choice kingy bru..... |
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| Bad day to go kayakking |
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| Porbeagle/Mako/whatever |
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| Interesting deep water fish |
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| Slender tuna..... |
Tuna season 2011 goes off with a BANG
This year, being my first tuna season seemed to be pretty uniform with what I've read regarding tuna fishing; of the 7 or so times we shot out to sea, I saw 0 yellowfin boated and all I caught myself were small albacore.
Not much of a result, but I had a good idea since the start what tuna fishing would be like.
There were however the random golden moments between hours and hours of dropping jigs down, cubing and trolling (sleeping).
My mate Ben got his first Marlin, in the middle of winter.....
Just when I had gotten complacent with doughnut sessions.. Out came the 100kilo Bluefin tuna!
We were cubing near a break out Heatons way when it hotted up all of a sudden.
Result - one big Thunny busted off, and one TLD-breaking beast of a blue fin tuna receiving a few gaffs to the face and being dragged aboard.
So for now it's time to recover financially and prepare for next year's attempts.
Not much of a result, but I had a good idea since the start what tuna fishing would be like.
There were however the random golden moments between hours and hours of dropping jigs down, cubing and trolling (sleeping).
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| The jig having a rest whilst I take in the sunset |
My mate Ben got his first Marlin, in the middle of winter.....
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| Stripey jumping with Sydney in the background |
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| Hooked up |
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| The business end |
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| Nice 200lb stripe marlin. Not a blue but it still jumps and has a stick on its face!!! |
Just when I had gotten complacent with doughnut sessions.. Out came the 100kilo Bluefin tuna!
We were cubing near a break out Heatons way when it hotted up all of a sudden.
Result - one big Thunny busted off, and one TLD-breaking beast of a blue fin tuna receiving a few gaffs to the face and being dragged aboard.
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| Hooked up on 24 |
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| Snap |
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| The holy grail; Ed's 220lb bluefin tuna out of Sydney |
Things I've learnt I can improve on for next year:
-More line capacity, go slightly heavier.
-Focus around certain moon periods ;)
-No bananas on board
Lazy blogger
Apologies, I'm truly lazy with my blog updates as it's hard to do from a mobile.
There have been some good fish... watch this space
There have been some good fish... watch this space
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