Pink faced marco
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Topic: Pink faced marco
Posted By: cartoonz
Subject: Pink faced marco
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:09pm
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Managed to get out the other day. Tried for a decent snapper or two as the swell had finally dropped. No luck there, so went wide and deep. Hoped to find pink mao mao and a handy sized king fish for the smoke house. As soon as I got in the water a small mob of kingfish came over to see what I was all about. I took the best of them and quickly put it back into the boats chilli bin. This time of year there are some big sharks in this area. We had to dive very hard and deep to find the pink mao mao. Not great numbers but very big fat buggers. My mate is a strong deep diver so he managed four or five. I had two and we were just about to head back to the boat when the boat man signalled shark!. I was pretty close to my mates float and sure enough there was a marco shark with his nose right in close to his fish. Good one, I'll get back ok while the shark destroys his. I got to within a meter of the boat when tug tug...
Here is a picture of the three mao mao the shark got. Tom lost one and I lost my two. Toms was a monster weighing 1.48kg bitten. Man they were fat!
Here is the fat little marco covered in pink mao mao shortly after his feeding frenzy....
Shot back in shallow for the rest of the day and just worked the weedlines for snapper and crays or whatever we could find. No big crays but these little potties are easy to handle and taste just fine with a cold white wine or beer.
With so much bait fish working the weedlines it was only a matter of time before I scored the FISH of the DAY
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Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:15pm
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awesome, I would love to take some of you out to a few pins I have found, I cant believe how deep you guys get down
------------- Ultimate GAME Fishing Adventures. Northland |
Posted By: Spider Monkey
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:22pm
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Awesome effort 'toonz! Good story and photos. That tarakihi on the end looks like a good'un. Noticed you said 'beer' and not Tui this time. Peer pressure is a terrible thing. |
Posted By: kolt45
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:45pm
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Awesome report toonz! Very similar to our day - mixed bag and good times. You sure there's an "r" in there?
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Posted By: Bad uncle
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:46pm
| love the selection of fich, how deep are you going? |
Posted By: SpearoMike
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 10:10pm
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man that catch rocks! ------------- here fishy fishy.......... ><(((((º> ............><(((((º> |
Posted By: jaydogfish
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 10:11pm
haha it took me a few seconds to work out how your mate marco got his mouth around those fish!
nice turks!!!!! ------------- THE DOGG |
kolt45 wrote:Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 8:30am
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Awesome ------------- "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. " Hunter S. Thompson |
Posted By: Keeweebee
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 8:46am
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Nice one toonz etc!
Tried sending you an email but it came back, google will keep trying, let me know if you dont receive. ta.
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Posted By: cartoonz
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 7:27pm
Took me a while Kolt but now I know what you mean.
 , hows the paua chips going. |
Posted By: kolt45
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 11:08pm
| Haven't tried any yet!! By the way, I went out to Pania reef this avo on a Marko Boat, so maybe there is something in the R after all... |