biggear wrote: We spent the day at Astrolabe on Tuesday dropping livies. Good fun but all that was present was Sharks. Big Hammerhead tagged and a solid Mako tagged also. Great to put bends in the rod though.

Good to see you are still fishing Stu, i see a 198kg striped marlin was caught at Astrolabe on the weekend, hard to top that for Lady Norrie cup

Interesting trip this weekend for one of my workmates. Hooked a decent stripey inside Mayor around a big school of makeral. Trolling two livebait macks - lost at boat when trace wore through. Wouldnt have picked it for mid July. Not a guy to tell bs and some fairly compelling photos.

or it mit be just the small fry record as no other small fry  has landed a southern blue fin in new zealand waters