From the Red Gill Lures team.
Last week I took a break from Red Gill Lures and took the Western Break east for a few days with Alan Langdon & Hadley Greenhalgh to chase the Southern Bluefin. Our goal was to catch one fish each to take home, tag a few, and then chase a record on 10kg line if we had time. We had an awesome trip and ticked all the boxes. Our first SBT was a PB for the boat at 137.2kg caught by Alan and it is the first SBT we have caught that put up much of a fight on 37kg line. It took us around 30 minutes to boat. This fish acted a bit like a Marlin on the strike, pulling the rigger lure out of the peg then going to the other rigger before finally nailing the RG1 -Evil on the shotgun after taking a good long look at it first. After that we caught multiple SBT every day, tagging 5 and processing 3 more immediately after capture to take home. All were around 60kg-90kg except one small fish I estimated at 20-25kg which was one of the fish we tagged. We also caught our share of pesky monster Albacore. The last day we dedicated to chase Hadley's record and we voted him as the angler since it was his idea. We only ran two lures. One on 37kg, and we ran an RG1 Kohe on a 4.4 meter leader on the 10kg. Our first fish was on the 10kg and turned out to be a 23kg Alby. Most of the Tuna we were marking were down at 90 meters but we went over a group of 5 Bluefin that were showing at 40 meters on the Raymarine sounder and I was just spitting out "get ready" when the 10kg got monster'd. The 37kg also got taken on the retrieve but luckily Alan managed to shake it off. After two hours Alan finally managed to get a Wrap on the end of the leader and we managed to boat the fish, which we immediately took in to the weigh station. The fish went 82kg and should be a new 10kg NZ record, beating the existing 30.5kg NZ record. I have added a screen shot from my new Raymarine Axiom Pro sounder unit, showing the five SBT just as we got the bite from the record fish. This 1kw Sounder is still amazing me at what a game changer it is. We ended up catching 10 SBT, Tagging and releasing 5, taking three home, and giving two fish to the locals. All of the fish were caught on RG1 lures in Kohe, RG-Evil, RG-Lumo, & Sanma colour.
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau
,bloody whopper !!!!
A Good Skipper Keeps the water on the outside of the boat.
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