Speedy wrote: We also fished the blue water - and while we struggled on the kingfish front like many others, we did have an eventful Friday while deep jigging. Me mate wayno on monster mesh 300 and accurate boss hooked a nice little stripey!! Was just dropping down when he thought he'd reached the bottom, clicked into gear and took his first pump. Came up real solid with him thinking he'd dropped into a snag. Not so as shortly it took flight and pulled a little bit of string, before the weight fell off. However, at that point the fish erupted onto the surface about 25 yards from the boat!!! Tale walked all over the place as Wayne took up the slack and luckily came up tight!!! Game on! Long (nervous) story short is that an hour later we had a tuckered out fish alongside where the call was made to boat it (first for Wayne and boat). Was an amazing thing to witness and only the second jig caught marlin that I know of - epic got one a couple years back. Any others heard of other fish being taken like this?? Good stuff Decoro, you guys sure sorted Wayne out with a sweet reel.... Can't put up a pic - working off my phone and it's all just too hard! Thanks to the mt club committee for putting on another mean tourney. Chur

Last March off Marakopa some guys had been snapper fishing then decided to troll for some albes & skippies but had forgot the marlin lures so chucked out a jig and trolled that and boated a 125 kg stripy, not deep jigging for Kings but still on a jig. We got our first one 2 weeks ago and reading this brings it all back, well done

I had high hopes for my first day out chasing gamefish for the season after the steller results and reports posted.

hows tauranga one base going , so far free lance 2 has a mahimahi from yesturday , i have had to work so no fishing for me , ph them and they are out side of auldies in  about 280 meters and 2 meter swells and rough this morning 

3 marlin tagged yesterday and 7 tagged today by 2pm( info from one of the boats fishing so hope it is correct)

I'll do a update on the one base a bit later this morning but thus far ive recorded and/or weighed:

12 marlin (10 t+r, weigh one blue and one stripey so far)
1 sword
2 YFT
1 spearfish
Lotsa mahimah
Albacore
Kingis

Well there should be no wrongly ID'd fish in this comp then eh Kezza

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Should be no mis identified fish in any comp in my opinion.

Where did the sword get snagged Kezza?

Big Dog - I may be wrong but I would expect it was caught at the Mayor Knolls as that is where most of the broadies out of Tauranga have been caught in the last couple of years.

If you are looking where to try, have a look on the charts for 500m plus water close to a knoll or go through the Tauranga Sport Fishing Club yearbook for the last two seasons and make a note of which boats have caught most of the broadies (only about 3 or 4 boats) and go for a troll around the Mayor Knolls on a nice calm day during the weekend looking for these boats, as almost certainly they will be chasing broadies and where you find them sitting stationary will be the spot to try (Note they generally do not fish on top of a Knoll, they are off to the side, so if they are on a knoll they are more than likely chasing bluenose).

six guns wrote: Or you could stop trying to stalk us come down the club have a beer or three get to know the people and come fishing with us no weirdos just keen as fisher man

Brilliant, that would be the easy way of doing it!!!