Big Big Yellowfin in Vavau
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Printed Date: 18 Apr 2024 at 6:18pm
Topic: Big Big Yellowfin in Vavau
Posted By: Slick
Subject: Big Big Yellowfin in Vavau
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2013 at 12:35pm
Yellowfin 81.5kgs
Line weight 24kgs
Fight time 3 hours
One very happy angler :) ------------- People say if fishing was easy then it would be called catching, I say these people who say that obviously had a bad day's fishing. |
Replies:
Posted By: mozz
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2013 at 1:39pm
| Thats a bloody nice fin! Lure or bait |
Posted By: Aaron32987
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2013 at 3:01pm
God lord, 3 hrs on 24 kg - that's an insane fight. Didn't realise these fish had that sort of stamina.
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Posted By: Slick
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2013 at 4:09pm
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Was on a lure, and yeh ive never known a fish to be so dogged he tried every trick in the book hense the 3 hour fight, we actually thought it was a decent size blue for most of the fight until we got a good look at it side on when he popped up shoulders out of the water and a sickle that was massive.
Was caught on a Bonze BTK in flying fish colours, my lure rigged by me so was special to get the fish on that also
 I was sitting at 12kgs drag for mot of the fight I could have bumped it up more but i was comfortable with it so didnt want to risk pulling the hooks.
My mate saw it take the lure and described it as someone dropping a vw ontop of the lure cant say on here his exact words when it hit
 And was only 2kgs off the Tongan national record for Yellowfin on 24kg argh so close
 ------------- People say if fishing was easy then it would be called catching, I say these people who say that obviously had a bad day's fishing. |
Posted By: Tyrannosaur
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2013 at 10:35pm
| Wow thats a great fin! Ive only heard stories of these things never seen one up close.. Maybe I should head to Vavau |
Posted By: segador
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2013 at 11:12pm
| mean fish there slick catch you down whiti during the season |
Posted By: Double Shot
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2013 at 6:05am
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Awesome fish Slick, and nice to get the sod on your own rigged lure, top effort, 3hrs certainly would've earnt a coldie or 3... ------------- 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 |