I've got another fish in with him now, so you better not get yours back before I do!
![]() Lovely fish SC! It's good to have a nice mid range fish mounted. Gives a sense of perspective when you get a decent one! ![]() |
![]() In the tropics you see plenty fish that the Hawaiians call 'mu'. You see dozens of small ones which are stupid, but once they get to ~500 grams they develop a bit of cunning.
Seeing plenty doesn't mean you actually get plenty and you could quite easily spend all day trying but getying none.
There's a few tricks to getting them within range, and occasionally these tricks work and you end up with a fish.... but usually they don't. Funnily enough the spookiest ones I've ever seen were on an island where I highly doubt the fish would've seen a diver - Takutea, the only Cook Island which has never been inhabited.
Usually mu are about 1.5-2kg, with the world record somewhere around 6kg.
Last time I was in Tonga (July) Chains and I had a great time chasing these things around and slowly figuring out how to actually get them. As our trip progressed our strike rate increased.
I got lucky one day and managed to bang a spear through the middle of this guy.
We never weighed him but I brought him home and he's currently with a taxidermist being immortalised.
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