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    Posted: 07 Sep 2012 at 7:19pm
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The game-fishing season is just around the corner so time to start polishing the gear and getting the boat in top condition. This thread is for posts on what's happening in your local area.

Good luck and tight lines to all for the upcoming season Thumbs Up

Keep an eye out for the new catch record thread which will be a great way to see at a glance what everyone has been catching Wink
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off up to hohoura tomorrow with boat in tow, can anyone let me know how its fishing? are there tuna and kings around? any tips would be greatly appreciated as ive not fished there before
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kings seem to be in abit closer then last month, snapper fishing is still abit hit and miss but catching a good feed should be no real problem... heard a few rumours of skippies but I have not seen anything yet.
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there was 6 tuna boats in whangaroa yesterday who all headed out today, they skips are there 
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headed up to the North Cape 27th dec from parengrenga harbour to catch some puka on the way back saw two strippies free jumping in a patch of water that hit 21.3 degrees in about 120 m straight east of harbour entrance, picked a skippie
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Anyone been to the Kings, yet?
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Hey, im after a mooring at Hohoura for a few weeks in March. Can anyone help me out or should i just give the harbour master a ring?
Cheers, Tom
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I see there is no posts for houhora so here's one! My mate went out last week in the light winds and caught a 90.5kg stripey. Not bad for a first fish of the season. Cheers.
Fresh kahawai that's where it's at!!!
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Just one more post for Houhora area, I tagged and released a nice little stripie today in 120m off Mt Camel , has been a good bite up there for last few days from Mt Camel to North Cape in 100m to 140m, so get up there, best area on the coast at present, however a bit sloppy conditions from the east makes things interesting, cheers Swordfishsteve


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nice work steve bloody quiet down were we are
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Good stuff Steve - damn wind is going to make it tough for the next while...bugger
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Hmmm very frustrated at the moment ! ! ! If we get this weather settled back down after this next Blow next week I will look to go for a wander up that way for 3-4 days !

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On about the 15th Feb, Primetime tagged a Black Marlin estimated at 300 kg on the King Bank. 
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Tonight had photo shown on TV1 weather news of sunrise in Houhora Harbour.

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spent the last week up in this area, yes there was a hot bite we tagged 3 marlin and 4 sharks in the area but it lasted a day and a bit before dwindling off and there was spasmodic catches in the area with the odd bunch of heads poking up here and there, find the bait and find the fish funny thing was we got more on lures than baits the area was alive with saury so may have been a problem to match the hatch although we did get them on kahawai, we took one over 100k for the freezer  100m line was working well that is follow the contour line.
lots and I mean lots of makos, so if bait fishing take a heap as you will be sharked we tagged 4 but lost twice that amount with bite offs.
some big bait schools at 50m so be prepared to bomb bait the school it works well
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Heading up to the 3Kings on Arenui in 2 weeks time. My 40th birthday pressie to myself. Never been game fishing before (other than albies off Kapiti island).

How's it been fishing? 
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What a great birthday pressie - great choice of captain, crew and boat Damien.  You'll have an awesome time. Doing the same trip in April on Arenui and can't wait.........  look forward to hearing how you get on.
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I'm off'too to whangaroa on Tuesday for marlin masters class on Arenui.
First time seriously chasing the big boys (other than a day trolling lures off the manukau).
The excitement is growing hour by hour. I hope to have a good report up Monday 11th march.
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hopfuly u can teach us how to switch bait after your trip good luck mate 
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