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    Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 10:45am
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As requested by a few of the LBG fishos on here it is time for us to start up our own hall of fame specifically for landbased captures.
 
So post away...
 
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Date of capture:

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Weight:
 
Rig / bait:
 
Location: Only needs to be vague.....
 
Fight time:
 
Gaffman:  
 
try keep the spam / chit chat to a minimum. While congratulations posts are great etc they will be pruned out everyone once in a while to keep this thread as primarily hall of famers only
 
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Looks like everyone's being a bit shy! it's not like fishos to be shy about telling stories about great fish they've caught. Sheesh, my non-fishing mates/colleagues are probably bored to tears of my stories. Not that I bother asking them of course LOL
Does someone need to get the ball rolling?
How about this one to get us started...I'm sure there are many better ones but we should get this started. I love hearing about great fish that other people are catching. Not as much as catching them myself of course though Wink
Angler: Me
Date of Capture: A while ago!
Species: come on, you can tell from the photo
Weight: 21lb
Whole straylined pilly
Land-based at the top of the coromandel. Fished 8 hours. One throwback in the first 15 mins and then this at the very end of the day. Amazzing how often it happens on the call of 'last baits'.
Fight time: seemed like about 30 seconds, was apparently about 10 mins,
Gaffman: my non-fisho mate on his first land-based fishing trip!

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Okay, here's one of my faves. Just because it was caught at a place I least expected to get a decent snap. Thought it was a stingy at first. Have since caught 2 x 6lbers and another 10lber at the same spot.


ANGLER: Me

Date of capture: 27 September 2006

Species: Snap

Weight: 10lb

Rig / bait: Baitrunner 6500, 13ft DAM surfcaster, 10kg Maxima Tournament Silver mono, Single 6/0 circle hook ledger rig, stinky pilly.

Location: MILFord Beach

Fight time: Not long

What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck.
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Nice one Forsyth....good to get this kicked off!
 
Doesn't have to be biggest fish btw guys. Any captures that are different (eg hapuka off the rocks) or unexpected or PB's etc are worthy of posting.
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ANGLER: Obr, me
Date of capture: 07 march
Species: Kelpy Snapper
Weight: 12lb
Rig / bait: diawa reel, Elimanator rod, with 30lb suffix mono and gammie size 5 hook, straylinning, no weights,  Fresh kY slab ( as big as my head )
Location: Far north - Cape Rianga
Fight time: 4 - 6 mins

 


 

your turn Jade??Big%20smile
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OBR -  I lost all my fishing pics upon return from the UK bar a couple. Am currently working on collecting a few new ones. See what we can find this weekend eh!
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ANGLER: Shoby
 
Date of capture: Last year sometime in March/April (sorry completely forgot)

Species: Kingfish

Weight: 17.9kg after gutting
 
Rig / bait: West coast running rig. Fresh Bonito about palm size
 
Location: Kaipara
 
Fight time: Approx 30 minutes. was using 15lb line and size 5 recurve hooks.
 
Gaffman:  Mate of mine
 
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FAR NORTH SNAPPER CAUGHT BY NGAIRE,
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CORO KINGIES, BOTH CAUGHT IN 2 MITRES OF WATER
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Snapper's
11.34kg     50kg total caught
Alvey reel Beastmaster 12ft  9kg line
north of whangaroa
10-15mins
myself
best days fishing yet new PB
 
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Shimano TLD50 (24kg momoi), ReelRods 24kg LBG
Cape Maria Van Dieman
 
                                  
 
Gaffman was Oat's, camera was a b-grade pxt phone
 
 
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                                                  feb 2000
 
                                                  kingfish
 
                                                  34kg
 
                                                  live kahawai/balloon
 
                                                  coromandel
 
                                                  10 mins
 
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   just a couple hopefuuly crack the 80lb king this year.                                             
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Not a huge snapper by all means, but it was my first 10lb plus snapper off the rocks and went 11lb.
Caught it using a shimano catana 4-6kg rod and an abu T-alloy reel, on a un-weighted pillie.
 
Middle of the day, I fell asleep after an all nighter in town the night before and had yet to get some sleep.
 
Was caught up the Rodney area a few hours walk in from no where
 
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.This is my Grandmother, landbased Waiheke Cows Bay wharf 98lb
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.This Kahawai was taken at spirits bay in 72 went 19 1/2 lbs

.This was me a few years back 2nd biggest for the LBG comp came in 2nd

.A couple not quite at the 20lb mark but close was out with INOV8A at the Barrier.

These two here are well over 20lb although they were caught from a boat you just about had to fend the rocks off water less the 2m so it pays to fish the feet 1st

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Angler - Myself. George New.

When -Earlier in 2008

Weight - Estimated at 20kg+

Rig - dead Piper bait under a float.

Gear - 15kg braid on baitrunner with 12 foot rod.

Where - Top of Coro

Fight Time - 15mins ( damn painful with braid )

Gaff Man - Steve Williams

 1 of 3 landed that morning.
here fishy, fishy fishy.....
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Great photos so far, getting me amped for an LB mission.

Sadly my photos are a little more modest but rewarding catches none the less:

 

Western Coromandel 2000

Couple of sting pulling trevs

estimated 8lbs

 

 

Mimiwhangata 2004

16lb snaps

1 hook floating rig.

 

 

Bay of Islands 2005

12lb snapper

 

 

 14lb snapper won the day

(caught by me mate!!)

 

 

 

Tutukaka 2007

11lb snapper

 

 

Tutukaka 2008

10lb snapper

 
Which was then released

 

All good memories, great sport and even better to explore remote parts of NZ.

 

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ANGLER:James Martin
 
Date of capture: May 08

Species:Kingfish

Weight:18kg
 
Rig / bait: TLD30, 24kg mono, 8ft Backbone LBG, 2kg live kahawai
 
Location: Lottin Point
 
Fight time:8min
 
Gaffman:  Kerry "lurker" Hartley

This was James's first time land based fishing and his first ever kingi not a bad way to start things off, well done bro (first bronzie this summer?)

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Well I tohught I would dig up some of my old phots from years gone by
 
Somew likely lads from the innaugural NZ LBG Clubs first tournament held out of Waihau Bay in 1986 we wer fishing Waikawa Point (From Left, Craig Worthington, ? , ?, Richard Baker and John Eichelsheim (partly obscured)
Adam Clancy (with Gaff) and ?
Craig Worthington with his winning kingfish of 33kg
 
Here are soem other eary photos
Craig Worthington with a blue shark he caught off the rocks at Guano Rock (Whangarei Heads) in 1985.
My brother Ian with snapper upto 16 pound caught at Ocean Beach, Whangarei Heads in 1980.
 
My 82 lb kingi caught off the rocks in 1984 on the reef at Spirits Bay
 
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Caught on a big dead Kahawai as we had no more livies so had to make do. it worked!
Coro
5min fight
Gaffed by Dennis the Mennis



Four hooked with two landed that day.

The best time Fishing is when its raining when its not raining or if you are married, When ever you are allowed to!
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Dug out some photos from the archives.

Giles Stanford with pair of 20kg+ kings from Lottin Pt in the mid eighties.

20lb snapper on same day

Winning fish 30kg from Lottin Pt, 1987 LBG comp

Heaviest snap 1988 LBG comp

Those that competed again 1988, I think

Whitianga Pt, 1988







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