Well... no big result for the weekend... but some encouraging experiences that mean we will give it another crack for sure..
My 13yo boy was using 3kg for Mahi... it was the first time we have tried going this light for propper small gamefish..
First up he hooked and landed a 2kg mahi.. they go nuts on light line... jump all over the show.. but it was no match on 3kg.
Then he hooked a slightly larger one.. or it hooked itself... were just drifting along, and then a mahi started to do cartwheels beside the boat... after about 5 jumps we noticed the line in its mouth !! came up tight... got it to the boat and then the join between the leader and mainline failed..
By then the mutton birds were making trouble.. hard to get a bait down..
We had a few "last goes... its geting late" :p
Then he hooked one close to the boat as he was bringing his line in.. I saw it come in and get the bait.. he played it for 10 mins in sloppy shyte wind swell.. got it to the boat and I grabbed the trace and was about to guide it over the landing net and the bloooody hook pulled
It wasnt big.. maybe 5-6kg.. but it would have been a NZ record for him..
So we were both dissapionted..
so close... but so far...
Thats fishing..
J