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    Posted: 21 Sep 2014 at 4:43pm
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Thought I may Aswell get in early, I'm available this game (marlin) season if your looking for numbers to fill up the boat.
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Question..how far are you westcoast guys going out to get into marlin and tuna in peak season?
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Well in truth both are available from the back of the bar too at least the 100m mark. Or were food is.
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Originally posted by MATTOO MATTOO wrote:

Well in truth both are available from the back of the bar too at least the 100m mark. Or were food is.
how far is the 100m mark from shore?
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About 15 miles out from the Manukau entrance
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Peak season you can get lucky last season I caught my fish in less than 60m. And did almost all of my trolling in less than 100 and also picked up quite a few albacore and skippies in the process. As for the 100m mark maybe 15miles from the bar?. I trolled on the weekend to see if I could find any tuna straight out from 60 to 350 odd meters without a sniff, plenty of dolphins and whales around and a huge school of krill best temp around 18.2 maybe next weekend.
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Cheers guys, dont have a boat yet but when I do I will be hitting up the westcoast. Gotta learn about the manukau bar first.
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Think there's a whole Lot of learning you may need to do before going west coast.
Assuming you haven't owned a boat use this forum to increase your knowledge and do a coastguard course at least.
Still cruising in my now sweetas pimped out Southern 755 HT0!
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I have been west abit beach launching from muriwai an bethels but only for inshore fishing an diving, grown up out west so have a respect for its unpredictability an how dangerous it can be so would never attempt the bar without knowledge an know how. One day when I own a boat il do the coast guard course aswell.
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Good to see a keen and safe attitude.
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Not wanting to take this off topic but Waiuku Coastguard have a Manukau Bar crossing day on January 11 based at Te Toro.

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Anyone go for a look out wide on the weekend?
Signs were looking good out of raglan in at 50-60m lots of bait around, clear water and temps starting to creeping up.
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Has anyone heard of tuna schools and where they are at? Heard of one boat picking up albies in 80m off the Manukau Bar in the weekend. I forgot to look at water temp when we were snapper fishing 
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Water temp was 18 degrees at 60m on Sun 7th and 19 degrees at 40m on Sat 13th - water felt nice and warm to.
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19 down Kawhia way, in pretty close as well, 35m didn't have to go out any further snaps are were it's at.

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We had 17.8 in
 50m of carters at Raglan on Friday. Blue ish water and bait schools on the way to 21.
Starting to feel fishy on the west, not long now.
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we trolled lures from 60 out saw birds at around 90m and worked them for 5 albacore could have caught more but home time loomed too early. also got a 70 odd kg mako to the boat for release best temp around 18.5
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I weighed an albie for CSFC boat 'Sick Dayz' today, it went 7.14kg. They trolled way out but reported there were albacore galore from 60m with big schools of saury jumping and lots of albie action with gannets at 80m, where the best water was. They said it was 19.5 degrees out there. We're getting close!

They were real basterds though because they told a little tinny they caught their fish off Clarks Beach, and off that tinny went. Got to love the Counties spirit Big smile

Sounds good for a mission tomorrow but I'll stay at home, be a good boy and mow the lawns. My boat will be out - sans Smudge - but only harbour fishing - expensive time of year this Xmas time Confused. Still, our turn will come.


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