what are the marlin feeding on?
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Topic: what are the marlin feeding on?
Posted By: mangre
Subject: what are the marlin feeding on?
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 7:04pm
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What are the albacore feeding on, anyone checked? ------------- "But why is the rum gone?!"- Captain(!)Jack Sparrow. |
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Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 7:19pm
| lures |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 7:21pm
| oh and white bait type transperant fry....well that was two weeks ago off the westcoast at least.....and lures! |
Posted By: mangre
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 7:31pm
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oh, whitebait, hmmm, you sure about that young man. ------------- "But why is the rum gone?!"- Captain(!)Jack Sparrow. |
Posted By: tugboat
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 7:36pm
| wasnt that marlin the guy from counties caught out off the west coast just recently feeding on squid???? |
Posted By: mangre
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 7:38pm
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Thankyou tugboat, check the contents of the albacore and you will find the same, both are feeding in the same area, find the albacore and you will find the marlin. ------------- "But why is the rum gone?!"- Captain(!)Jack Sparrow. |
Posted By: stef da maori
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 7:59pm
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Marlin weren't feeding on Tuesday then? ------------- Tama tu, tama ora. Tama moe, tama mate.Maranga mai, me hiika tatou i nga wa katoa. |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 8:14pm
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the ones I gutted had...like I said...balls of whitebait type transluscent fry in their guts.... PS....it is very hard to say if there where marlin in the area as well mind you.....but I'll go with your science over my observation... what I meant to say was that there where squid in their guts? |
Posted By: mangre
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 8:43pm
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would be hard to say wouldn't it lol ------------- "But why is the rum gone?!"- Captain(!)Jack Sparrow. |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 10:53pm
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considering we were "targeting" sharks for a show we were filming, yeah it was.. |
Posted By: ginga
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2007 at 1:44pm
| Waihau bay last weekend they were feeding on squid |
Posted By: Bigfishbob
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2007 at 3:38pm
| Also saw them feeding on Sauries at Waihau bay as well last weekend. What boat were you on Ginga? |
Posted By: ginga
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2007 at 3:57pm
| We were on my tinnie ten percent, mainly chasing kings at the cape. Got a few but some serious sharks done there ate all our good ones. What boat were you on bob. |
Posted By: TM.
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2007 at 8:08pm
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spoke to someone who caught and gutted a marin out of whangaroa last weekend.....full of squid.....also the albies they landed were spewing up squid
great if you ask me...have always had better results on squid coloured lures rather than the purp/black....having said that you will only catch the fish on the lures you have in the water so if you tow light coloured lures thats what you get them on and the same for dark
really starting to question if it makes a lot of difference at the end of the day
you lure makers out there must have put in the hours re colours...how important is it really
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Posted By: mangre
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2007 at 10:40pm
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The point I'm trying to make here, and it is not science, is if you work an area that is holding albacore in a known depth that the marlin have been getting caught, you can be confident that you "may be" in the right area.
somthing to think about, if you haven't already.
somtimes you can drive away from a food source that doesn't really show on the surface ie squid. ------------- "But why is the rum gone?!"- Captain(!)Jack Sparrow. |
Posted By: mangre
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2007 at 10:45pm
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mind you if there feeding on whitebait it may pay to try another area. ------------- "But why is the rum gone?!"- Captain(!)Jack Sparrow. |
Posted By: Bigfishbob
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2007 at 10:46pm
| Calypso 6, (we heard you guys on the radio) were at the cape monday evening and got sharked big time as well. Lotsa rats but got busted by a decent king on 24Kg and then sharked on another on of about 8-9Kgs. Nice very large radius bite mark. Was it you guys that got the 150Kg bronzy on Saturday (I think, or maybe sunday?) at the Cape? |
Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2007 at 7:00am
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It's an excellent bet, especially on the West Coast, that if there's albies, then marlin will be close by.
Why not use an albie as a livebait? ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
Posted By: ginga
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2007 at 9:05am
| Nah bob we didnt land any sharks. we hooked one up accidently which had dined on one of our kingies it put on a good show until it tangled around a cray pot. At one stage we had 2 big sharks ripping aprt a 20 kilo king we had hooked, it was impressive but i really wanted to land that fish. |
Posted By: dustin
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2007 at 7:51am
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Only problem with picking a squid coloured lure is - what's a squid coloured lure?
They're remarkable animals in their own right - simply amazing!
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Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2007 at 8:07am
| good point Dustin....but you can narrow down the colour spectrum somewhat when you include a predator in the equation.... |
Posted By: billpears
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2007 at 1:04pm
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i really like where this is going, best thread on here for a while. Great pix's Dustin |
Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2007 at 9:07pm
| lol Dustin well theres the translucent and the angry and theres a fugly, lol man they look awesome in the wild, recon your right though Kerren put a predator in there and god knows, one things for sure there would be alot of angry squid.... |
Posted By: kaveman
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2007 at 9:16pm
| Sauries everywhere around Aldies/Mayor region at the moment, never seen them this prolific before. |
Posted By: mangre
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2007 at 9:52pm
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Kaveman, if you can get the squid & saury, in the same area, you got to be in a good area "A", have found a couple of points of a degree rise in temp, the albies drop off a bit and the water quaility improves, then we start to see saury.
So if you can find that sweet spot were it all comes together.
who knows, just my observations.
we were out the other day when Jill grey was working a line four hours in where the albies were, where as we were working a warmer break past the albies, with saury and free jumpers.
we both got nil, so I don't know what the point of this is.
Any blue macs, skippys up the aldies yet. ------------- "But why is the rum gone?!"- Captain(!)Jack Sparrow. |
Posted By: kaveman
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2007 at 6:59am
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Mangre,no blue macs at all this year,Very strange ,as they have always been around Aldies early in season. Albies everywhere from 60-90m line but patchy elsewhere. Havent seen 1 skippie yet but have heard of a few getting caught. we fished 550m east of Aldies last week and saury jumping out everywhere, got in amongst them and had a hit but didnt hook up. Fish never came back,saury seem to be everywhere from all the reports ive had. also saw 2 free jumping shortbill spearfish, never seen that before. Im told the skippies are 60 miles out east still,next trip will be out to the Rangatiras,water is looking very good out there in latest sst chart.over 23 deg so should be holding a few blues |
Posted By: *stu*
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2007 at 11:12am
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We found blue macs in amongst kahawai schools just off penguin shoals 2 weeks ago. Havent come across any skippies. Around Mayor have noticed more sauries than usual also. Seems to still be low numbers of beakies around this area still though.
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Posted By: arjay
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2007 at 7:28pm
| We found Blue Macs amongst kahawai schools out the back of the dogger bank during the Nauti Gals |