Gamefishing Updates - West Coast
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Printed Date: 08 Feb 2025 at 4:43am
Topic: Gamefishing Updates - West Coast
Posted By: Fishb8
Subject: Gamefishing Updates - West Coast
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2023 at 5:16pm
Several stripies caught off Raglan and 1 x 286 Kg Blue. Never many Blues caught out west, ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
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Posted By: White snake
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2023 at 6:55pm
| Wow a west coast blue is something dreams are made of.congrats to all involved.2 stripys tagged for newplymouth so far.way off shore towards southern trench. |
Posted By: Muzzfishing
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2024 at 4:28pm
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Been a while between posts, Raglan /Kawhia are going off. two stikes and landed one last Wednesday first for the boat and my mate Ross went 86.5kg on the scales. ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">  A Good Skipper Keeps the water on the outside of the boat.
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Posted By: White snake
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2024 at 10:55am
| Hi muzz.Yes I'm hearing very good reports from kawhia raglan areas.Just hoping they turn up in numbers off New Plymouth this year.New Plymouth has its first stripy on the board but was caught very wide towards the trench |
Posted By: Muzzfishing
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2024 at 9:36pm
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Its still early days i am sure they will be heading your way soon good luck for the season. Pretty happy to get one on our first try for the season. ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> A Good Skipper Keeps the water on the outside of the boat.
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Posted By: yknot
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2024 at 4:21pm
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Great to see thread re set for season, and posts. Look forward to seeing more updates  ------------- Those that say it can't be done are being overtaken by those doing it. |
Posted By: Got-ya
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2024 at 9:24pm
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I see C Crazy got a Yellow Fin off the Manukau. Rare catch. ------------- THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF FISHERMAN, THOSE WHO FISH FOR SPORT AND THOSE THAT CATCH SOMETHING. |
Posted By: Skoti
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2024 at 9:13pm
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There's been three blues caught out west weighed in by Counties in our club waters this season . Weighed one today that went 228kg caught south of the Waikato bar in 110 meters .
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Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2024 at 10:15pm
Two YFT for Counties boat Gentleman's Club on the 17th ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Got-ya wrote:Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2024 at 10:17pm
Wow, nice fish! I weighed a 144.4kg stripey today for Sirocco. Also two smaller fish ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: Keith C
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2024 at 6:52am
And a 310kg broadbill in New Plymouth yesterday besides the numerous stripes. Photo from NPS&UC. |
Posted By: Got-ya
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2024 at 7:53am
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A marlin was caught off the Manukau on Friday. Was in 55m on a live bait while snapper fishing. Nice bonus. ------------- THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF FISHERMAN, THOSE WHO FISH FOR SPORT AND THOSE THAT CATCH SOMETHING. |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2024 at 8:34pm
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Let's get this one up and running again. Here's an early season teaser: CSFC boat 'From a Distance' landed a 50kg yellow fin tuna today. I didn't get a pic sorry but I'm sure one will appear on our club fb page pretty soon and I'll post that up. It was caught just past 330m. No lure details as I wasn't the weighmaster for this one but I did see it. I was thinking 50, then as I stepped out of the ute the weighmaster calls 50! Pretty easy to say now Smudge! YFT is my bucket list fish, I have wanted one since i was a little kid. Hopefully one day! ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: yknot
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2024 at 8:42pm
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That is a cool catch for out west. Would be great to get this thread and others with a few more posts. ------------- Those that say it can't be done are being overtaken by those doing it. |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2024 at 8:46pm
Yes. With a new motor on our old tub, I'm very keen to put in some gamefishing hours this year. ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2024 at 9:50pm
Going by this pic i would have called this fish 30kg, photo really doesn't do it justice
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Posted By: rowboat bob
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2024 at 9:53am
| The tone of your new motor will be a fish raiser Smudge. How far out is 330m deep ? |
Posted By: MATTOO
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2024 at 1:55pm
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About 25nm from paratutae rock. If it was straight out from the manukau. It’s definitely an early Xmas present. Yum yum. ------------- Still cruising in my now sweetas pimped out Southern 755 HT0! |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2024 at 10:52pm
I've never had the rage to go that deep on my boat, but I'm sure it's well within reach now. I know it's over 20 nautical miles and Matoo has been there done that so I'd go with 25 ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: Keith C
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2024 at 8:39pm
Small bluefin (15kg) caught in 30m off NP port today. 
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Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025 at 5:30pm
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A marlin and two YFT coming into Te Toro tonight
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Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025 at 5:33pm
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Marlin went 92.8kg YFT's not in yet. No details sorry
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Posted By: Keith C
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025 at 10:06pm
| Marlin 89.4 in NP today. |
Posted By: Rainbow
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025 at 10:26pm
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Hi Any more news about the tuna. Was anchored just north of Saddleback on Christmas Eve and had several tuna rolling past me no more than 50m on either side of me. No birds with them. No idea whether they were Skippies, Albies or small blue fin as all have black backs. Rainbow
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Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025 at 4:45am
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The YFT were around 26kg and another stripie was tagged and released.
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Posted By: Keith C
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025 at 9:36am
35kg yellowfin weighed Thursday Herb. Caught near the knuckle. 12.8 kg albie weighed 3/1 caught off Waikawau. Tuna are wide-spread. |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2025 at 10:47pm
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I've never known day like it as happened out of the Manukau today. We must have been the only boat that didn't see a yellowfin. There were pretty much everywhere by all accounts from 50m to 115m. We saw only one marlin chasing saury but there were reports of up to 8 marlin pack attacks. Doubles were commonplace. Channel 63 was just going off. One guy casting stick baits to YFT hooked and landed a stripey. It was nuts. ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: yknot
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 4:09pm
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What a great day. ------------- Those that say it can't be done are being overtaken by those doing it. |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 6:55pm
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It was indeed Yknot. I weighed 2 YFT's for a Junior & Small Fry angler last night. They didn't get on the water until 2pm and they got one each around 30kg. They had another much bigger one get sharked at the boat and they gave the remains to me for weighing their fish. It was much bigger than the other two and what was left was 20kg at least. I got around 15kg of meat off it. Big mako that bit that in half!
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Posted By: Mattolsen6991
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2025 at 7:46am
| The west coast is absolutely firing. Fish in as close as 50m and all the way out to 120 off Raglan. We would have seen close to 30 fish over the day feeding on bait balls and in the lures. 3 fish tagged 80kg-120kg range. Small lures with light gauge hooks all pinned nicely in the roof of the mouths. No better time than now, get out there |