funnyist thing i almost cryed
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Topic: funnyist thing i almost cryed
Posted By: 0zzmosis
Subject: funnyist thing i almost cryed
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2003 at 8:32am
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this morning i got up real eary to get some fishing in b4 work... was just pissing about in welly harbor and i caught a kahawai quite decent then i caught another one about 20mins lata that was awsome didnt have my scales but im guessing around 6-8kg, but when i was taking the hook out it sliped out of my hands and SPLAH!!! sh!t i didnt know weather to laff or cry over the last 3weeks seems im turning into quite a good kahawai fisho with my godly fluke on that kickass snapper cheers ozz |
yay go me!!Replies:
Posted By: KingfishSi
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2003 at 8:49am
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Ah, the one that got away. Would have been a nice fish Ozz... You would have cried had it slipped out of your hands and hit you in the nads!  ------------- Keep knockin', nobody's home. |
Posted By: 0zzmosis
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2003 at 9:10am
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lol im sure i would have... that reminds me of a sorty of when i made one of my mates that dont swear, swear... was surfcasting and he got too close(100%his falt) hes luck i didnt cast it or he'd be called 1nut today..... would have made a good TV beep session "ozz wait, wait, ozz dont cast, wait beeping beep beep beeping ozz beep ozz beeing beeping beep beep beep ozz" cheers ozz |
Posted By: lalandi
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2003 at 5:23pm
Hey ozz... Are ya sure your not getting kgs confused with lbs??? a 6-8kg (13-17.5lb)Kahawai would pretty much take out most nz records for Kahawai... depending on line class... a 6-8lb Kahawai is a big Kahawai. a 6-8kg Kahawai is a f**ken MONSTER... ------------- So you're a feminist... How cute |
Posted By: billfish
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2003 at 5:50pm
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Hey there trendsetters. I use to spend a bit of time camping out at Spirits Bay in Far North. Now and again rock hoppers would land what was called 'Ocean Going Kahawai'. These mothers were f**king huge. I think 10 - 15 kgs would be nothing special for these buggers. They looked a little like mullets on steroids with their big rounded heads but was assured they were Kahawai none the less. One I can distinctly recall was laid over the bonnet of my then first car - an Austin Mini (can you picture me in a mini - well it was a long time ago) and it stretched from one side to the other with it's tail almost touching the ground. Probably close to 4 feet in length. Maybe I was just stoned but the memory is pretty firm. Anybody confirm their genus? Lethal? |
Posted By: Mr Bean
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2003 at 6:00pm
| Haven't seen one myself but seen photos plus at Hunts on the shore there is one mounted on the wall from Spirits that from memory is 21 pd.....pretty big for a Kahawai. However I didn't think they went as far south as wellington. I think they are also known as Kermadec Kahawai. |
Posted By: lalandi
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2003 at 6:04pm
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Arripis xylabion or Kermedec Kahawai, ocean going Kahawai, etc... found commonly around the Kermies, Norfolk etc... Yea I am familiar with these fish... they reach northern NZ in summer. Distinguishable by their larger eye and deeply forked tail. They have recently been recognised as a seperate species from A. trutta which is just your garden variety Kahawai... ------------- So you're a feminist... How cute |
Posted By: billfish
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2003 at 7:16pm
| Mighty obliged Lalandi, a man with the facts at his fingertips. |
Posted By: A C
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2003 at 7:20pm
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I'm disapointed lalandi..........no JUGS ?? ------------- Aye-Aye cloth eyes. |
Posted By: Peter da Squid
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2003 at 7:43pm
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Yeah, the red ugly monster ate hotgirl out OHHH I mean up ------------- Good for Nuthin |
Posted By: KingfishSi
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2003 at 7:45am
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One of the girls we took camping at Labour Weekend caught a kahawai that was up around 10 - 11 pounds straight off the beach at Mangawhai. I was the only bloke that caught anything decent and that was a couple up around 6 pounds. Grrrrrrr, us blokes were f**ken gutted. We're never gonna hear the end of it. Farcanal, Andrew I've seen that fish you talk about at Hunt's... It's looking pretty rough and I always passed it off as just an old kingie... I never took a close look at it. Bloody oath! Ocean going kahawai's tail is also deeper than it's head is long... if that makes sense. Where as, the Joe Bloggs kahawai has a tail shallower than it's head length. ------------- Keep knockin', nobody's home. |
Posted By: Zeke
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2003 at 5:30pm
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correct me if i am wrong, i`m sure you will, but a while ago the record for a Kahawai, land based this is , was around 14 lb, the angler was a member of the north shore club, name is Mac something or other Zeke if it ain`t broke, buggar it, fix it anyway |
Posted By: 0zzmosis
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2003 at 8:56pm
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yeap lalandi... i know the difference between kgs and lbs and from my job just at a guess i can usually get a kg weight pretty dead on... if i accadently droped a 6-8pounder back i woudnt have really cared... and yeah alot of people often mistake a large kahawai with a kingi... its pretty uncommon to find them anywhere near that large down in welly that why i was so gutted to lose it... but large kahawai around 10-15kg are not thaat uncommon in the far north parts of NZ espeshilly in the summer months... cheers ozz |
Posted By: A C
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2003 at 9:04pm
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There's a 20odd ( 24 I think ) pounder on the wall at WDSAC ------------- Aye-Aye cloth eyes. |