bluefin tuna
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Printed Date: 21 Jun 2026 at 9:16am
Topic: bluefin tuna
Posted By: long john
Subject: bluefin tuna
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2006 at 7:37pm
| Graham McKereth landed a tuna today est 180kg. |
Replies:
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2006 at 8:56pm
Wicked. Thats a lot of sushi 
Isn't he from Wellietown? ------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2006 at 9:13pm
Congrats G-Mac!!  you said you could do it, now I guess I'll have to believe you!.....awesome stuff and hope you got some good stuff in the can as it were! |
Posted By: Uncle
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2006 at 9:20pm
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Where? When? That's nearly 400lbs--Wow! |
Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2006 at 9:52pm
| Awesome!!! Thats a big powerful fish... |
Posted By: KeriBOI
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2006 at 10:08pm
| woah, thats got to be the heaviest fish speared in nz??? |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2006 at 10:10pm
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fannnnnnnnnnntastic ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: tintanic
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2006 at 10:37pm
| Yep thats a gold medal performance. Well done.. |
Posted By: Nick.
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2006 at 11:34pm
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Excellent. thats some grerat news. can you get the details if Greame is willing to share them, gun , rig set up, shot placement, depth etc....
Does bluefin tast like yellowfin? the yellowfin we had in Whakatane was beautifull!
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Posted By: random
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 2:57am
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Awesome stuff Graeme,
Thats one sweet fish. Thouse boys will be hung-over to hell today. Cangrats man. |
Posted By: spearo_steve
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 8:01am
| Was any of the action caught on film? It would be great to sit down and watch the fight. I'm sure his ass was well puckered. |
Posted By: DUTCHIE
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 8:23am
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pictures anywhere? |
Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 9:26am
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Freaken awesome... good to get the full report and piccies! |
Posted By: Dead Ant
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 11:38am
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Well done - We were watching them going into the water behind the trawlers. As the trawlers lifted their nets we'd start chunking and chucking baits in while the spearo's swam around. With the number and size of the mako's let alone the Bluefin down there those guys have bigger cahuna's than me!
Cheers
DA
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Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 12:46pm
| Just heard from a friend that talked to graham and it has officially weighed in at over 200kg |
Posted By: herby
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 1:18pm
| bloody hell! wicked stuff, hes not a big fella either aye? |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 1:42pm
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G-Mac has been doing a bit of our under water camera work recently......the guy should have been born with gills!!...AQUA-MAN!! Awesome stuff, can't wait to hear all the facts and see the video footage! |
Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 1:44pm
Wholy fudge!!!!!!!!! 
Very impressive, I hope theres pics and maybe footage of that as it something that doesnt happen often. He must have been a torpedo while that fish took off!! Bloody incredible.....
Good work Graham
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Posted By: chong
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 5:17pm
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amazing - what a fish - pictures please! |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 6:07pm
| 203kg. |
Posted By: vermin
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 6:23pm
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that is a huge effort!!well done...
i couldn't even get in the water for a quick dip let alone float around, spear the tuna then get dragged around for how ever long with the mako's. looking foward to hearing the story.
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Posted By: thomastats
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 7:18pm
| what a legend!!! |
Posted By: CRAYMOUNTS
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 7:44pm
| makos my a___e more like whites there |
Posted By: Lethal
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2006 at 8:28pm
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excellent fish... mighty effort thats for sure..... just wait till the rest of the world see this, spearos will be coming from all over the world to have a go at them monster..... there sure is some big sharks down there possible 1000lb Makos and 3000lb Whites..... i had my first B/Fin taken by a shark and i can tell you it had never gone faster than when that shark got hold of it..... |
Posted By: Moocha
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2006 at 8:25am
| Nice to see a mention in the Dom Post this morning, the previous "Record for spearing a southern Bluefin was just 13kg caught near Wellington in 1972". Is that acurate? the previous record being 13kg in 1972 ? |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2006 at 8:35am
Moocha...the species of tuna that G-Mac nailed would most certainly be a Northern Pacific Bluefin  |
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2006 at 8:35am
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Your not wrong Lethal.
We'll have the rich Yanks coming over and pay top dollar to target SBF. Bit like the exclusive lodges where they get overseas tourist to shoot a stag for a 1000 bucks. Are you planning to set up a venture down there
eric ------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: Moocha
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2006 at 9:06am
Well leave it to the Newspaper to c oc k up a good story huh 
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Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2006 at 9:20am
The article was correct in that the SBT record was:
from http://www.bluefins.co.nz - www.bluefins.co.nz The NBT record is shown as vacant in the NZ record list at the mo ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: wilma
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2006 at 9:55am
| Long John, Graham came round yesterday with the DVD footage on his way to the Interislander. The scales on the crane on the wharf, holding the tuna read 204kg. It tasted good too, had it for tea last night. I have never seen such large chunks of meat! |
Posted By: bluefox_13
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2006 at 10:43am
| Will he be posting some pics up Wilma??? Or is he waiting for a movie deal first?? |
Posted By: bluefox_13
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 9:28am
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Ok heres a couple of pics Alan sent through. What a horse!!  
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Posted By: DUTCHIE
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 9:54am
| that is MASSIVE, hat to think what a 300kg is |
Posted By: redfox
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 10:29am
| faark, wicked! |
Posted By: blackfish
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 11:19am
 From a Yank (and not a rich one) on the west coast of USA..let me tip my hat...quite an accomplishment
  ...and that is an understatement |
Eric de Vries wrote:Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 11:42am
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What's even more scary is that another was shot that weekend and lost after destroying a heavy duty bungie like it was dental floss (est.300kgs)
Bad luck Mike
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Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 11:43am
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Full story from the horses mouth http://www.wildblue.co.nz/divereports/ - http://www.wildblue.co.nz/divereports/
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Posted By: DUTCHIE
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 12:35pm
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Is it correct that Darren Shields was there to film these tuna ? If so what show and when will it be on tv? |
Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 12:46pm
| yes thats true DS is fiming for gone fishing and our very own Long John is down there filming with Matt Watson for the fishing show as we speak, not sure when it'll be on though??? |
Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 1:48pm
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHA!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: herby
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 2:33pm
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That man deserves a DB.
Whats next? Whale Sharks at Ningaloo Reef??
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Posted By: bluefox_13
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 4:14pm
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Hel why not.... Im keen on going for a pilot whale..... Should be easier than tuna, don swim as fast and they gotta come up for air at some stage..... |
Posted By: clueless
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2006 at 5:41pm
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All photo's here... more to come
http://www.spearfishingnz.com - www.spearfishingnz.com |
Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 8:21am
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Anyone know what sort of gear these guys are using?
I think Graeme was using a Riffe but the other guys were using Alexanders? and a locally made (Nelson)bluewater gun that has up nto 12 rubbers!! has anyone got any info/photos on these?
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Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 9:13am
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here's a link to the tuna terminator
http://www.spearfishing.net.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?t=204 powered by 13 rubbers and has a thrust of 468kg |
Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 9:58am
| hmmm the old putting a competitors website on the forum... Paul where are you?? |
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 10:04am
Paul is having a kip. Its close to morning teatime ya know 
------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 11:51am
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I got some photos from Darren that you can see here. http://www.wildblue.co.nz/species/pelagics/southernbluefintuna/?editMode=1 - http://www.wildblue.co.nz/species/pelagics/southernbluefintuna/?editMode=1
Thats Mike with his big Alexander gun. Apparently the boys have been having problems with the big guns shooting off by themselves. that'd give you a fright on the boat aye?
Mike lost a fish estimated at over 300kg when his super-heavy duty 20mm bungy broke and Gary lost one in the high 200s that towed his two 11ltr floats, boogie board and windy float for an hour after breaking a riffe float.
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Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 12:20pm
| Is there any contact details for the Tuna terminator would like to see some photos of his guns (prefered on this site so not to cause any problems eh Bull) |
Posted By: KeriBOI
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 12:40pm
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"Southern Bluefin are an endangered species and are rated as a worst choice by the Best Fish Guide. This is largely because of the lack of a commercial quota system and heavy unsustainable commercial fishing - a single fish may reach up to $US173,000 at the Japanese fish markets."
Ouch |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 1:10pm
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Good thing they aren't shooting the southerns, then eh? Bollix to that. I'd shoot one! ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 1:11pm
| So working that out if you had say a 400kg fish @ $173000 that's about $400 /kg that's insane!!! |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 1:25pm
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Is also bollix - very few fish are of the quality required to reach such a price. They have to be treated very carefully all the way to Japan to do it. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 1:33pm
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So I gather slamming two spears into it , beating it to death, then hanging it up to take photos of it wouldn't pass as treating it nicely?
Still the odd one that gets through that's not bad $$
Sorry guys had to check out the terminator, that's one amazing looking gun. Sounds like the guy also makes smaller versions so will have to find out more about it. I will get back to this thread with info. Good to see gear like this being made in New Zealand instead of stuff from overseas
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Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 1:40pm
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Certainly not saying don't shoot them, it is one of my goals to shoot one as well, but it's pretty hard to discuss southern or pacific/northern bluefins (both exactly the same status) without at least mentioning their endangered status. As always selective spearing is the most environmentally friendly way of fishing, a commercial long liner would have killed 4 tonnes of albatross, turtles, dolphins, sharks etc as by-catch for Grahams 200kg fish.
Record price for a tuna was $US173k for 444lb fish!!
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Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 1:42pm
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I'm looking at designing a polespear to target these fish.
Thought the whisperer might be able to give me some tips???
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Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 1:52pm
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Don't eat yellow snow. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 1:56pm
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There was rumour on the Freedivelist this year of a giant bluefin being shot off Florida or somewhere by an old digger with a Hawaiian sling (the true kind, with the mechanism that grips the shaft). Has not been substantiated, but I like the story. Art Pinder's Sailfish - possible. Bluefin? Given that the chance of landing one using half a tropical rainforest as a gun is not high, I think your chance would be pretty minimal. Still, worth losing you gear for if one swam up to you.
Spears like my Omer Manny Puig spear, or the Henley spears might do the job. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 2:54pm
| sorry for posting link to other site,i can send gary an email and get him to post on here,he makes guns also makes a few other spearo/diving things |
Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 3:26pm
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"I'm looking at designing a polespear to target these fish." One with a 12gauge banger on it
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Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 3:33pm
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Ha ha... I don't mind links if they are informative and add to the conversation... which those two links did. In the end it is up to the moderators to police the site to ensure neutrality!!
I would be using as much power, tackle as I could to ensure a hit and kill. Not sure a handspear would give me a huge amount of confidence to land a big fish.
Interesting to see the lessons learnt about the lines and bungies. Seems they gave out before the floats.
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Posted By: mado
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 4:21pm
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The highest price for a BFT was at the Tsiji auction /Tokyo on the 1 Jan/2000 $1m for the fish.A chain of high class resturants in Japan wanted to have the first fish of the millinum.
BFT are now being farmed from eggs in Japan and should harvest around 300 mt this summer.I saw the fingerlings in 2001 and last year visited the same farm and the fish were weighing 20-30 kgs.They will weigh out at around 60-80 kgs on harvest.
Port Lincoln in South Australia has also started to strip eggs from there brood stock and if all goes well should have fish in 3-4 years ,so plenty is happening on the aquaculture front for BFT and YFT.
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Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 4:36pm
| Can any body help with a contact number for the guy that makes the tuna terminators? |
Posted By: herby
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 5:15pm
| Mado, i would like to know more about these farms, and their methods. is there anyone i could contact to find out more? |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 5:42pm
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drop an email tp gary who makes the tuna terminator
his email is [email protected] . i told him about the site so he may come on sometime. he does sometimes go on the othersite i posted a link to.hope that helps |
Posted By: Paul M
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 5:56pm
| They don't target them down our way because they are too skinny/ unconditioned, the get them after they have migrated north, putting on weight all the way. |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 6:19pm
| ive heard a story about a couple of guys out the north end of kapiti looking for kingis and a couple of veedubs swum past. what would you do.... |
Posted By: Paul M
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 7:49pm
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Thats right case,
If the story is right it was 20-25 odd years back, Bob Rosemergy may have been one of the divers.
Home made guns, cray pot floats etc, no shot taken
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Posted By: mado
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 8:37pm
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The contact in Japan is KINKI University(marine aquaculture) and in S/Aust. The STHRE GROUP/ Port Lincoln
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Posted By: oldfela
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2006 at 10:59pm
| hi my dive buddy and I speared 1 each last year with riffes but fond it like thoughing tooth pick at them . they just had no penatration, so I designed the tuna terminator, this year was the test and it has the power to penatrate the fish write throughand toggel the over size ice pick the fish I had for 1 hour pulled my design board float and a riffe down then latter 3 hippos and windy bouy down , I have a line of blue water gunns under construction standard 4 rubbers inclosed track but can be powered to 8 rubbers with wing kit , |
Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 7:56am
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Hi Gary, Great to have you join us!
Can you post some photos on this site of the guns you are talking about and prices as I tried to find a website with no luck.
The guys here get a little shakey if you mention going to other website so would be great to see what you do. roughly what are the prices like?
Can I ask that wiyhout upsetting anyone?
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Posted By: Paul M
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 9:18am
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Darth, lets just set the record straight.
I don't think anyone has an issue with anybody recomending product or discussing pricing, so long as they are comming from a nuetral position.
If you look at the length of time and amount of posts some people in here have you will see that a lot of guys
a) spend too much time in here
b) have been discussing stuff in here for upwards of 3 years
So we have a pretty good idea who is who, and it sticks out like dogs balls when someone new jumps on here and starts recommending product or a new site etc
Over the last week or so you have dived into the fray, and we pretty much know who you are now, who if anybody you might be associated with so we know your not spamming us by asking Gary to supply details on his tuna guns.
And it follows that Gary wouldn't be spamming us by replying because he's been asked for information, and I imagine a lot of guys would be keen to see that info.
So lets drop the "The guys here get a little shakey etc" and get on with it aye?
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Posted By: bluefox_13
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 9:20am
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Herby,
The tuna farms in Japan are operational but not sustainable really...... To farm salmon for example, for every kilo of salmon produced you have had to kill and use 5.7 kg of other fish for food etc. Tuna are the worst farmed fish in this world for food conversion ratios......
For every kg of Tuna produced at harvest (in the Japaneese farms) currently requires around 24kg of other fish (eg fish for food, or fish that were made into fish meal for the protiens etc). The farms in aussie are a little better at around 11-16 kg, as they ranch the fish. ie they go out to sea and round up big schools of tuna at a certain size and then tow the fish back to their near-shore farms, where they grow them up to their harvest size before exporting them overseas.
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Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 9:40am
| Thanks Big Fulla, |
Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 9:43am
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Don't hide yuor feelings Paul, I know you missed me while I was away,
Just let it out buddy
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Posted By: random
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 10:53am
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All in all I see the blue-fin off the south-west coast as a blessing for us Kiwi's
Just look at how many people are lining up to have a crack at them. Thats the way it used to be off Whakatane in the summer. Now that that fishery is completley stuffed we should be making the most of this one. We should all be thanking our lucky stars that there are still fish around of this size. TSW I just ordered an Odor pole-spear, if ya want company for spearing a BFT I'm keen  Failing that, its halibut season up here and the water is clear...........
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Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 11:16am
| What the hell is an Odor polespear?? is that the brand? |
Posted By: Paul M
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 11:28am
| Omer |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 11:33am
| There's also an american bloke called Ray Odor who makes them, maybe it's one of his |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 11:34am
| Bummer of a name though |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 11:59am
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http://www.spearfishing.cc/Pole%20Spears.htm - http://www.spearfishing.cc/Pole%20Spears.htm
Is it a 6 ft one, Random? ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 12:13pm
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I saw these on the web the other day any good?
Still recon those ones from hawaii are unbeatable in any length.
Just a hassle to get them to you because of the costs involved.
Reid what do you reckon? pros and cons of one piece/two piece?
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Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2006 at 12:25pm
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The Hawaiian ones are great for fish up to about 5 kg, but I'm not always after those ones. You really need something more heavy durty for bigger fish, hence my move to the Omer spear when chasing big fish.
Pete the Pom has a Kawabunga (1 piece hybrid 50/50 aluminium/graphite), and it's similar to my 2-piece hybrid (60/40) spear which a mate picked up there last year - I think mine's a Lance O'hara spear. You can buy the same type of thing off Hawaii Skin Diver's website, dunno about freight costs, but they are great to deal with on other stuff and it is easier than bluewaterhunter's shipping hassles.
My 2-piece spear is really nice, and easier to lug around than Pete's kawabunga, easier to have in the boat/car, etc. In the water I expect the performance is about the same.
My 3-piece seahorse spear (either one of 2 pieces aluminium depending on 8 ft or 10 ft length and one piece graphite) is about the same. I treat them as inter-changeable, but the Lance O'hara spear is better quality than the seahorse gear. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2006 at 12:11am
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Hey guys,
Back in the real world having spent the last two days in the unreal one. Hopefully got some good footage-we'll see (wasn't allowed to replay tapes).
Personally, I don't believe spearing these animals is what we should be doing, given the lost to landed ratio we would end up with. Hopefully the charter guys down there will realise (most I spoke to did) that the fish are worth more to everyone swimming around than banged on the head. BTW, that's not to criticize Graham, what he did was awesome and took big cahunas but it's been done now and we should leave it at that. I think someone else posted asking "who were the second guys to climb Everest?"
Man, WHAT A TRIP!!!!!!!
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Posted By: random
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2006 at 6:33am
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L-J, I look forward to hearing more about the trip man. Sounds exciting.
As far as not spearing them goes, well, I'm in two minds as I really want to spear one myself. But....I'd like to see heavier gear used, I wouldn't be against having them speared as long as proper tackle is used. And maybe, just maybe, and it goes against almost everything we do as spearo's, we should be targetting the smallest we could possibly find. I'd like to hear more thoughts on this topic, not just from those who speak the loudest and most often, but from all spearo's who lurk around here. You're right on the money though, this fishery is worth way more to NZ as a rec fishery than anything else and so the fish should be respected. Personally for me, a blue-fin would be like the K2 of underwater mountains, at the mo, I'm researching Broadies off the east coast of canada, now theres a real everest. |
Posted By: Redfinger
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2006 at 7:38am
| Must have been a great Trip LJ - HOPE U got some good stuff. That sort of footage must be worth a bit? |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2006 at 9:51am
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Personally, I am not into bue water spearing really. But I don't think I could say others shouldn't be. It is interesting that you guys saw a few really big fish which are obviously pacific/northerns. And yet only very very few seem to get caught or reported from the rec sector or commercial sector (possibly caught butwe don't hear about it?). This makes me wonder if the northerns are more common here than we realise, and how accurate the stock assessments are.
Looking forward to a thorough debrief over a few cold ones.
ps. LJ can you email me the fishrecorder's database? Cheers
------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2006 at 10:22am
maybe we should be trying to conserve this fishery because like whakatane it could very easily get stuffed? i think that the attuide of one fishery is completely stuffed lets use this other one like the way it used to be is going to end up being fatal to it it would show our complete ignorance if people were to let this fishery suffer the same fate as the one in whakatane...... |
Posted By: random
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2006 at 10:31am
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Thats exactly what I mean Andrew, I guess you could read what I wrote either way. But yeah, lets look after this fishery instead of exploiting it and destroying it.
The problem with the Whakatane fishery was that the tuna were hammered by the commercial's as they migrated down through the pacific. In saying that though, I've heard horror stories about the numbers killed by some rec folks. |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2006 at 7:47pm
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Hey Russ. I also thought that footage might be worth something- but it doesn't belong to me. Hopefully after the boys have exhausted any potential revenue avenues, I might get a copy to show at club night. We'll see. Wouldn't compare to One Night in Paris though, or any of the other standard club fare. Shame about the goat, he was my kind of ungulate. Baaaaaa
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Posted By: oldfela
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2006 at 8:26pm
 
 Hi, sorry for the delay with the photos , but being from the older age group I had to get my son to show me how to drive this site , this is the terminator , and my centre retreve board floot, any questions, before I give a run down
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Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2006 at 9:36pm
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Good on ya, that's wicked mate! ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2006 at 7:08pm
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http://www.spearfishingnz.com/SPNZ/Portals/0/Gallery/459/Graham%27s%20204kg%20Bluefin%20Tuna/bf7.jpg - http://www.spearfishingnz.com/SPNZ/Portals/0/Gallery/459/Graham's%20204kg%20Bluefin%20Tuna/bf7.jpg
Check this pic of Grahams slip tip. Oh mama. Image was posted on Paul's forum, just so no one accuses me of poaching topical issues. Oh, maybe I shouldn't say that seeing as I'm in the Bluefins and this is a Bluefin forum. Oh, no it's not. Is it? Isnt it?
Is eating one of these considered cannibalism? Do I need another rum? YES!!!
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Posted By: darth vader
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2006 at 7:53am
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Hey Don't start that again!!
I got what i needed to out of my system and I feel better now.
. me and the boys have come to the agree to disagree conclusion so enough said.
Thanks for the photos tunahunter awesome looking guns and I'm sure being locally made you will do well (buy Kiwi made and all that)
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Posted By: Phil G
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2006 at 10:57am
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Mike and Gary were out for their second attempt this season to land a Tuna yesterday. This time they were successful, from information received Mike shot it and it took in the region of 1 1/2 hours to land.
Size unknown at this stage.
Well Done Guys
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Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2006 at 1:11pm
| any more details emerging yet??? |
Posted By: KeriBOI
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2006 at 3:26pm
| another one! woah. |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2006 at 5:48pm
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just seen a photo looks cool the guys look happy
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Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2006 at 8:57pm
Well done fellas -168kg, looks like the shot was pretty close to the spine. For what it's worth, I don't dig the taking of these fish-they are conditioned to know their food comes from an environment where fluoro floats and metal hulls banging and clanging are the norm, indeed the dinner bell, and where cables and wires and divers (seals) are providing their food for them. We slot perfectly into what they consider to be the ideal feeding situation-they feel no need to be cautious of us.
Dolphins spring to mind. Still, all power to those dudes, they set a goal and attained it. ------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2006 at 9:17pm
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you have to agree thou LJ they do taste pretty flippn'
delish!....hopefully you got some of the really pale pink/marbeled
flesh in your consignment....DO NOT COOK it...that stuff is the top
notch sushimi! the "aged steak" looking meat.....STEAKS! I just dropped off 99% of the box to a friendly smoker...will let you know when it is done! |