Gamefishing update 2012 - Waihau Bay
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Topic: Gamefishing update 2012 - Waihau Bay
Posted By: Wahoo Woman
Subject: Gamefishing update 2012 - Waihau Bay
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2011 at 1:24pm
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Well
everyone the Game Fishing season is just around the corner so time to start
polishing the gear and getting the boat in top condition, here are a few
threads for you all to use to make updates about whats happening in your local
area. Good luck and tight lines to all for the upcoming
season |
Replies:
Posted By: Mcnuts 2
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2011 at 12:34pm
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This season its on!! for Team Oceanside two.
Good luck to all the other crews.
Trophy lures all the way!!!
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Posted By: Bluewater5
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2011 at 3:17pm
Can any one tell me whats happing down that part of the bay? Many people trying or just enjoying there new toys and not close to a computer to be able give us any info?  ------------- I own 501 lures, but i can only run 5 at a time. What to do??? Man I have some sleepless nights!!!! |
Posted By: BigBlue1300
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2012 at 11:44am
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Just got off the phone,few hour ago, Ariki Tai just dropped a striped marlin (about 10mins play) :( |
Posted By: Double Shot
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2012 at 11:47am
Bugger ------------- 70ml of 90deg C water pressurised through 13g of roasted finely ground tamped coffee for 25sec's to make a distinguishing sensory hit called a Double Shot |
Posted By: six guns
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2012 at 5:21pm
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come on waihau bay you can do it ------------- skull draging and taging |
Posted By: Mcnuts 2
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2012 at 6:29pm
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Erik will be spewing. ------------- Oceanside Waihaubay |
Posted By: BigBlue1300
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2012 at 4:42pm
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Apparently there was a shortbill spearfish and a mahimahi caught east of White Island today. Also there will be a Large Bass Weighed Tonight (Caught by a Junior) |
Posted By: BigBlue1300
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2012 at 9:13am
| The 2 Bass Weighed Went 70.2kgs and 64kgs (Dont Know the boats name) |
Posted By: Bugzy
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2012 at 4:30pm
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Photo's? ------------- Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 2:28pm
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Stripey just landed on B Caus ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 2:43pm
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awesomeness!! ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Double Shot
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 3:50pm
 Great stuff------------- 70ml of 90deg C water pressurised through 13g of roasted finely ground tamped coffee for 25sec's to make a distinguishing sensory hit called a Double Shot |
Posted By: Tagit
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 4:03pm
| Keep em coming. Team Tagit are hoping to be down that way (weather, fish, oil, and containers etc permitting) on the 1st/2nd week of Feb. |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 4:06pm
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Stripey on B Caus went 137kg Andrew Randrup 13 yrs old pin fish for Waihau ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: Tangi DnA
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 4:12pm
Awesome Congrats to the young Man------------- I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila. |
Posted By: Mcnuts 2
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 4:37pm
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Go Andrew you good thing.
Bcause (Mike) good stuff mate, see you next weekend you bugga??> ------------- Oceanside Waihaubay |
Posted By: Mcnuts 2
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 4:38pm
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Save some for me Derek.
Hope it was on a trophy lure?. ------------- Oceanside Waihaubay |
Posted By: Double Shot
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 4:38pm
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Well done to the young fella... ------------- 70ml of 90deg C water pressurised through 13g of roasted finely ground tamped coffee for 25sec's to make a distinguishing sensory hit called a Double Shot |
Posted By: inta game
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 4:58pm
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outstanding. big effort ; the boy must no his stuff
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Posted By: viking...
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 5:04pm
| Wicked stuff guys, well done Mike and Andrew, awesome stripey for this early n season. Lookin fwd to catchin up mid Feb. |
Posted By: Blue
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 5:16pm
| Nice. |
Posted By: riga
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 8:01pm
| Wicked mike. The bottle of rum is on its way mate. |
Posted By: kaveman
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 8:45pm
Ranthrup kids were brought up with a fishing rod in there hands well done-------------  www.kavemantackle.co.nz
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inta game wrote:Posted By: Titahi
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 8:58pm
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Thats a fantastic effort for a young fella, AWESOME.... Bet their was some "urgent chatter' in the cockpit! ------------- "I love standing by the ocean and just knowing what its for" |
Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 9:23pm
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well done kid!! ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
Posted By: C A
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 10:09pm
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awesome!! go hard guys ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: six guns
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2012 at 7:49am
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that boy is living the dream ------------- skull draging and taging |
Posted By: Bluewater5
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2012 at 3:00pm
Congratulations to the junior catching that first marlin on the 9th Jan. Has there been any more action down that way at all? Is there much effort going in or is the weather playing havoc down there too? Should be lots of new FADs in the area soon for the mahi mahi if nothing else  ------------- I own 501 lures, but i can only run 5 at a time. What to do??? Man I have some sleepless nights!!!! |
Posted By: jme
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2012 at 5:32pm
| anything been happening lately? |
Posted By: GAME TIME
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 7:09pm
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Any luck Mcnuts 2?? Still got ya job, HaHa
Nathan.
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Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2012 at 10:32am
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Andrew Randrup on B'CAUS just T&R another Stripey ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: riga
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2012 at 10:36am
| Andrew's running hot |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2012 at 7:05pm
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107.8 stripey caught on Braveheart.
Vitamin C T&R
BCaus taged mako and pulled hook on a blue at the boat ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: Crazy Horse
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2012 at 7:26pm
| Rendevous is coming |
Posted By: Sambosi
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2012 at 9:24pm
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Good to hear of some action down there. Always look forward to your updates Trophy.
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Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2012 at 10:37pm
x 2 ------------- Ultimate GAME Fishing Adventures. Northland |
Posted By: Boulder
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2012 at 11:43pm
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Great news for you guys as when I was there 7 days ago the water was a chilly 17 and green as grass
------------- http://www.boulderguiding.co.nz">  http://www.boulderguiding.co.nz">www.boulderguiding.co.nz |
Posted By: Crazy Horse
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2012 at 7:59pm
| Any action today |
Posted By: jme
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 10:15am
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Rendevou Tagged a Small Stripy (Yesterday) |
Posted By: Crazy Horse
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 11:00am
| Good to hear that they are out there doing it. Keep me informed |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 4:03pm
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The Blues are finaly here ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: snapper14
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 4:34pm
 . spill the beans mate! ------------- If a man goes nowhere and theres no one there to see him, did he ever leave? Munter - Outrageous Fortune. |
Posted By: Marisita
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 5:26pm
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Hi Derek, We'll be arriving next Wednesday. Be ready for the Akitio crew. Alberto ------------- MARISITA |
Posted By: weeze
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2012 at 9:33am
| Pacific Hunter - Blue Marlin - 178kgs |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2012 at 10:45am
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Rana's Legacy boated stripey.
Backinblack dropped blue at the boat
178kg blue on Pacific Hunter
Sorry shark
Good stuff Alberto ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: C A
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2012 at 6:18pm
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so it was a 178kg shark? or a blue ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2012 at 9:12pm
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shark being snapper14 ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: snapper14
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2012 at 8:29am
 don't be sorry Derek. your updates are very appreciated and it is great to be able to share the excitement and action from down there no matter how sad it is to be at work and not out there too.Keep up the good work! ------------- If a man goes nowhere and theres no one there to see him, did he ever leave? Munter - Outrageous Fortune. |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2012 at 1:28pm
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Rendezvous hooked up on stripey ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2012 at 7:35pm
| with the east forcast we are coming down to have try ,any reports on water /fishing this week? |
Posted By: Guzzini 1
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2012 at 8:47pm
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Chris off Guzzini here doug, We will also be down there on a fizz boat called Charlie J . Will keep in touch |
Posted By: Adam...
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2012 at 10:11pm
I shoulda come this weekend,nevamind plenty more,Good luck Doug.by the way you'll be back at the Aldies by sunday haha cause thats where its at,Weed teaser will pull fish down there no doubt |
Posted By: munta snapa hunta
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2012 at 1:10pm
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Somehow I don't think Doug is after small stripies.
Go Waihau Bay blues....
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Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2012 at 5:44pm
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Pacific Hunter tagged a stripey
Rana's Legacy dropped both from double hookup. ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: mangre 2
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2012 at 7:25pm
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thanksfor the updates, straight to the point, awesome.
sounds like the good old waihau bay will produce ------------- Beautiful is better than ugly, Explicit is better than implicit, Simple is better than complex, Complex is better than complicated. http://oceanmobilemap.blogspot.co.nz/ |
Posted By: Bluewater5
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2012 at 8:13pm
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Sounds like its slowly starting to fire down there, just in time for the influx of visitors for the nationals. Good luck to you all, especially Oceanside 2. Good to have caught up with you at the 20k. ------------- I own 501 lures, but i can only run 5 at a time. What to do??? Man I have some sleepless nights!!!! |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2012 at 10:04am
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Backinblack tagged stripey
Bcause has marlin amongst the gear ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2012 at 3:09pm
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Rana's Legacy boated a marlin
------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2012 at 4:23pm
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Rana's Legacy boated 2 marlin in a few days - good stuff. ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
Posted By: parky
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2012 at 5:35pm
| Good Stuff Les!!! |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2012 at 9:12pm
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Today
Backinblack (Doolaly) Tagged stripey
Rana's legacy (Denise)84.2 kg stripey
Waireka 122.8kg stripey
Hot pursuit (nick) 123.7 stripey
Pacific hunter (chris) tagged stripey
Pacific hunter 188.7kg Blue ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 9:27am
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Backinblack fighting a shark
outerlimits boated stripey ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 10:34am
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Rana's legacy fighting a marlin ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: Tzer
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 10:44am
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Hopefully after this southerly blows through they will make their way down here. |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 11:17am
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Rana's Legacy (Denise) boated Stripey
Another boat missed name fighting a marlin.
------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 11:24am
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Well done Rana - do you have a tag pole? ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 11:27am
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Game on dropped fish ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: Fletch
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 11:47am
Why? ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 12:16pm
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3rd boated fish in 4 days - getting over-kill in my opinion. The Billfish Moratorium policy was that 50%of the recreational catch be tagged. Definitely not happening this season - don't give the politicians a chance to open the billfish back to the commercial sector. That's why. ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
Posted By: murtie12
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 12:28pm
| i thought 70% of fish had to be tagged? I have no problem with people boating fish (i took my first last week) but 3 in 4 days is getting silly |
Posted By: Fletch
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 12:35pm
My bad....fair call.  ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 1:19pm
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Convict dropped fish at the boat
Fishb8
Best wait untill the story is told before jumping to premature conclusions. it was on 24kg so there may verywell be more to the story ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: Marligator
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 2:19pm
| Roy, the moratorium agreement regarding the tagging of 50% of marlin was broken by the commercial's very soon after it was agreed upon when they started targeting broadbill on the grounds that the recreational peopel fished alot i.e. Poor Knights Rise, Garden Patch etc. The 50% has no standing anymore and has not had for many years, it is a good goal but not a requirement. In years where there are plenty of marlin along the coast (wish we had that out of Tauranga) many marlin are caught by boats who do not catch many and arew often the anglers first and they want to keep a couple for eating. I am sick of this attitude of some people that they all have to be tagged and question anybody who keeps a couple without knowing the full story, the fish may have been tail wrapped and died or hooked in the eye etc etc etc or they just wanted to keep it, good on them if they did. |
Posted By: Fletch
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 2:21pm
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LIKE^^ ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 2:31pm
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on ya Vance....was just looking at the facts/figures of the defunct Billfish MUA then went looking for a suitable "high horse" image to share with Roy but see you've already summed it up nicely....IN MY OPINION! ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: murtie12
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 2:40pm
| Good points vance and kezza and definately taken on board, especially Kezza's point of "in his oppinion". Thats why these forums are so great because fisho's can share their oppinions. Personally i would (although i will probibly never be in the position to make this call) never consider taking 3 marlin in a season let alone in 4 days. This has nothing to do with MUA but just my personal stance. |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 3:03pm
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Right on Murtie....perhaps instead of 3 in 4 days look at it as 3 in 365 days....;)....or 3 for 100s of thousands in investment....all then becomes dandylion fields, rainbows and fluffy bunnies after that... ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: liveba8
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 3:49pm
| Whats the weather n sea conditions like down there today & any idea of what area the action is in at present? |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 3:49pm
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Ocean Monarch sending fish in for weighing.
FishB8
1st fish was anglers 1st (acceptable)
2nd fish was first fish for season for boat owner (acceptable)
3rd fish on 24kg tagged and tried to be revived unsuccesfully (also acceptable)
as I said best to get the full story ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 3:54pm
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Yo Mark
Weather has been great for a few days. Sea's been kind.
Action to the west. ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: liveba8
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 4:44pm
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Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 5:37pm
Is Rana a charter boat - if so no probs but you can keep on going on to find an excuse to keep boating marlin. I'm staying on my high horse because that's MY opinion. But, if we are lucky enough to snag a marlin later this month - 1 will be taken between 4 anglers and yes we have taken our one fish and pulled in a dead one..which also got smoked. Don't I hear on the ITM Fishing Show that it's good to limit your catch? ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
Posted By: mangre 2
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 5:42pm
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i thought this is a gamefishing update thread ------------- Beautiful is better than ugly, Explicit is better than implicit, Simple is better than complex, Complex is better than complicated. http://oceanmobilemap.blogspot.co.nz/ |
Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 5:51pm
It is...until it starts raining Paul ------------- "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 6:06pm
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1 will be taken between 4 anglers and yes we have taken our one fish and pulled in a dead one..which also got smoked. "So you are no different". Leave your moral highground on the high horse. It will only get higer and futher to fall. If you had four different mates next week i'm quite sure they would also want to take their fish. In My Opinion. ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 6:08pm
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Ocean Monarch Stripey 89kg and 13kg Albacore ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: parky
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 7:24pm
| Cheers Derek for the updates - Keep them coming, sounds like things are hotting up. Congrats to Les and Denise. |
Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 7:57pm
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good to hear it is coming along for you boys, hope you get into them, with this release thing Roy, got to remember it's nation wide and it is up to the angler, I know one guy took 8 or was it 9 last season none went to waste. There has been good numbers already released and this will continue, what is a pity is the fact we dont see pure tag and release competitions and we are still seeing sharks hanging from the gantry, we held a very successful one a few years ago and people complained that they had to release them to be in the comp, they found it hard to believe, each to there own if you choose to keep one or ten who are we to say you cant, ------------- Ultimate GAME Fishing Adventures. Northland |
Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 9:16pm
My opinion - you won't change that. Fish for the future - sounds like a lot of fishing for today!  ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
Posted By: Latitude35south
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 9:37pm
| I would be interested to know what the percentage of tagged fish are ever caught again .If the percentage is as low as i guess it is then either there are so many marlin out there that taking a few makes no differenceor the tagged fish are dying in which case even hooking playing and releasing any should be questioned |
Posted By: Marisita
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 10:22pm
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May I remind you again this is a forum update for Waihau Bay? If anybody wants to start an argument they should either pick the fights somewhere else or write to a magazine to express their opinions. This argument keeps popping up and only leads to a few people getting upset. Let's just talk about the subject this thread has been started for ------------- MARISITA |
Posted By: Adam...
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2012 at 11:14pm
Id say that stripey was dead at the boat,
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Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2012 at 5:43am
------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |
Posted By: Mcnuts 2
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2012 at 8:38am
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Keep the region reports coming Derek.
See you next week. ------------- Oceanside Waihaubay |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2012 at 8:49am
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Ocean Monarch Boated spearfish ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2012 at 10:55am
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Ocean Monarch pulled hook on marlin at the boat after 1.5hrs ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2012 at 10:58am
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must have been a nice fish then, is Mike still the owner/skipper or did he sell her. ------------- Ultimate GAME Fishing Adventures. Northland |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2012 at 11:26am
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Son (Jarad) just boated marlin on Ninja ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |
Posted By: ExTrophy
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2012 at 11:29am
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BA Doug Stewart is the man ------------- Go Hard or Go Home |