Shakedown Cruise to Aldermen Is
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Topic: Shakedown Cruise to Aldermen Is
Posted By: carlostairua
Subject: Shakedown Cruise to Aldermen Is
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 7:38am
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After being boatless for two weeks after selling our old Stabi 580, I was like a little kid on Christmas Eve picking up the new Stabi 659Super Cab on Friday! Those of you who went along to the boat show will know it as it was the Gate Prize, and the guy who won it put it up on trademe.
With the storm we've got at the moment approaching really needed to get it on the water for a solid day to run it through its paces. The Butcher and the Gardener put their hands up to join in. We were on the water 6.15am and off to catch some livies, the Butcher hauled in the first catch for the new boat on a squid jig - Calamari for dinner! 
With the livy tank full of jackas we headed out to the Aldies, with two missions - one to break the Gardeners virginity on kingfish, and two to get the Butcher his first snapper on a softbait as he'd been trying for a few weeks for nought. The kingis took a few drops but we were in with the Gardener getting us on the board with a solid fish 
He then hooked into another and after a bit of huffing and puffing a respecatable 18kg fish came to the boat, not bad for his first two kingis 
Time for the Butcher to get one and he make quick work of this puppy 
We released a half dozen after that up to 15kg, and decided it was time to break the Butchers softbait virginity. After trying the Sugarloafs for nothing, we came right in close to the coast in 12m of water near Sailors. The Butcher nailed a nice 3 pound snap, but was fairly gutted when the Gardener's little reel howled on a nice fish, his first ever on a softbait,, after 5 mins this nice 12pound snapper came to the boat. 
As you can see from the pointed finger the Butcher was a little dark. Anyway the first trip produced a fair few firsts! Can't rave enough about what a wicked boat the 659SC is, even after only one trip, glad we stuck with Stabi for sure. Itching to get back out there, but a few chores to do this week to get the boat in survey all the best carl 
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Posted By: phantomdeviant
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 9:06am
Awesome stuff, a great trip to break in the new boat, those 659 look pretty mean. Some happy looking chaps in the photo's with the snaps and hoodlum ------------- Skirt Pulla |
Posted By: CanadianJohn
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 11:01am
| not a bad first blooding! cool boat! big fish!! |
Posted By: Moocha
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 11:05am
Kingies still firing around the Aldermans awesome   Great post Epic and well done the butcher |
Posted By: Capnnod
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 11:23am
Excellent stuff guys, surprised to see Kingis around at this time of year.
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Posted By: carlostairua
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 12:11pm
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cheers guys, yeah she is a nice rig.
Yeah the kingis are still here, and they are big and fat for their length. The fish we kept all were all full of fish, mainly jackas but one king had a legal sized snapper in him...
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Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 2:00pm
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on ya epic good stuff, so you have the boat, are you going to set her up for marlin fishing? ------------- Ultimate GAME Fishing Adventures. Northland |
Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 2:06pm
Cripes, still kingis around aye 
Looks magic out there on the water, and a feed of fresh kingi fillets at this time of year is well worth it!
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Posted By: carlostairua
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 2:21pm
| BA - you bet mate!!!! lets hope the yammie puts out the right noises... |
Posted By: kaveman
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 2:26pm
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Top stuff Epic , real nice rig kingies on livies or jigs? what depth? |
Posted By: carlostairua
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 2:52pm
| hey kaveman, majority of the kings were on jigs mate. the one that worked the best was an older one that all the paint knocked off it, so was just a flat silver colour. also pink. nothing on green and gold. they're holding on most of the pinnacles around the aldies and have had some monsters this time of year right inside the aldies as well on livies. |
Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 2:59pm
sure it will mate, if you need a hand etc let us know would be only too happy to help out.  ------------- Ultimate GAME Fishing Adventures. Northland |
Epic wrote:Posted By: carlostairua
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 3:11pm
| Cheers BA, might get in touch a bit closer to summer if you're keen to come out for a fish and get your thoughts. just saving up a bit of coin now for the extras i'll add later in the year eg tuna tubes etc. in the meantime more kings and a few puka are calling! |
Posted By: of2fsh
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 4:29pm
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Nice work on the winter kings |
Posted By: wetdream
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 4:41pm
Mate that's a great first trip on the new toy , it's got the right mojo 4shore.------------- Like us on: facebook/stanleysigns.com |
Posted By: Lethal
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 5:49pm
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excellent start Epic, i reckon your going to have to start a fish on the wall for your boat just so you dont loss sight of good trips that have past.... |
Posted By: feeder
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 6:01pm
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Great start for the new rig, nice pics and what suberb conditions, damn!! why does'nt the west coast be like that. Cheers ------------- The only bar to frequent is the Kawhia Bar |
Posted By: burt sugar
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 6:18pm
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Congrats Epic! Did you have a look around Castle at all? Just wondering because a mate reckons it's holding puka and kingies too. Also what's your schedule like at the moment? We'd be keen on a charter in the near future. Cheers. |
Posted By: Mark Edwards
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2007 at 9:05pm
| good stuff Carlos, very excited about the new boat and obviously it pleases the fishing gods! looking fwd to seeing her and getting out there again, all the best mate and congrats on the new boat, youll nail it mate.... |
Posted By: Fishy Fingers
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2007 at 8:20am
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Well dudes top catch when aldermans fire they fire top work ------------- Fresh kahawai that's where it's at!!! |