No need for expensive gear to catch big fish
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: Popper and Topwater Fishing
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Printed Date: 09 Jun 2026 at 12:07am
Topic: No need for expensive gear to catch big fish
Posted By: ET487
Subject: No need for expensive gear to catch big fish
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2012 at 10:32pm
 Black Tiger Ugly Stick, thanks Predator07, Finn Nor 5500, thanks Cathelot and cheap 80lb Trade Me braid. Big 74,5lb Giant Trevally. Need i say more???
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Posted By: Norseman
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 4:50am
Nice fish, fish don't care how much you spend on tackle! 
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Posted By: kaveman
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 6:44am
wow, thats a horse. spill the beans, where did you go to catch that?
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Posted By: Millkman
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 8:11am
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Nice! Well done! ------------- Getdatfish |
Posted By: Capt Asparagus
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 9:30am
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It's not fair, you catch all the fish. Nothing wrong at all with the fin-nor offshores either, they may not be flash and expensive, but they are bloody tough, good drags and work on the KISS principle which, when you are a long way from home or a service/replacement shop, is a very very good thing. Those GTs, they aint small fish are they.... |
Posted By: ReelAppealLures
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 10:07am
Deon lives on Kiribati AKA Christmas Is... Horrible place! That sure is a solid geet! Good skills bro... ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Reel-Appeal-Lures/300309486704362 |
kaveman wrote:Posted By: alan syme
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 12:46pm
| good fish, well done! |
Posted By: kaveman
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 12:58pm
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Cheers Sam, that sure is a hog
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Posted By: Double Shot
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 1:24pm
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You're welcome Deon, pleased they have done the trick for you...
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Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 1:27pm
Well done Deon what a beast of a fish...
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Posted By: Fishybznz
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 1:30pm
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Wow, what a fish!
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Posted By: ET487
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 4:54pm
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Posted By: ET487
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2012 at 6:00pm
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Posted By: ET487
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 5:41pm
    Another day in paradise and the GT's want to play. Biggest 30kg and smallest just18kg. There are another 2 in the bag and 4 were released. Left the shore at 10 and we were back at 2. Cheap gear in action. |
Posted By: Tipper
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 6:12pm
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Is that the 5-50 Black Tiger?? ------------- Please make sure you have the full 'witty' Plug-In installed on your Internet Browser, or the default 'half-witty' output may affect your profile |
Posted By: YeeHaa
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 8:57pm
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are they any good eating? -------------   WWW.YEEHAA.CO.NZ (09)5705058 30 Jellicoe Road Panmure |
Posted By: ET487
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 9:06pm
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Posted By: ET487
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 9:09pm
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Posted By: Tipper
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 9:38pm
I know, thats why I own one. Might have to take it on holiday next year ------------- Please make sure you have the full 'witty' Plug-In installed on your Internet Browser, or the default 'half-witty' output may affect your profile |
Posted By: YeeHaa
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 10:12pm
always interested to have a taste of GT,, but I hear they have poison in them...at least the place that I have been  ------------- WWW.YEEHAA.CO.NZ (09)5705058 30 Jellicoe Road Panmure |
Posted By: Titahi
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2012 at 12:33pm
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where I am currently living GT is referred to as white fish and used extensively to make ' Namas' which is a raw fish dish.
The GT flesh is nothing like silver Trevs in NZ, for a start the GT's are apart from Sharks the apex predator here sorta like Snapper, eat everything. Its less dense than the NZ flesh, and much whiter as opposed to the opaque flesh of Silver Trevs. The smaller ones are good chewing and cook up well. The bigger ones are.......not as nice, but still get eaten, with nothing wasted.
Interestingly I asked the medical super here about incidence of Ciguterria, and he has never seen or heard of a case of it, considering how much people rely on fish as a staple protein source and its all coral reefs i would a thought it was an issue? He does not know why it doesnt seem to occur here, other than perhaps " antidotal evidence' that the current running at upto 6 knots sweeps everything through pretty quickly and the algae does not have time to accumulate to a infectious level.
Coral trout, Barracoudda, Spanish Macks, sweet lips, red throat emporer, jew fish Nanagai are all eaten in large quantities with out incident? ------------- "I love standing by the ocean and just knowing what its for" |