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Cheers Fishb8 yeah in the Club now. Been dreaming about that first one for a while now. Hey I landed the sucker on TLD 30 2 speed fully loaded with 50lb braid to!
Will put full report up on here tonight.
 
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We got 10 on our recent trip - 6 were on braid!
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Yeah been checking your posts out, looks like a wicked trip mate for sure.
Yeah Im liking the idea of using full braid ay mate. Having no strech must get that hook set pretty quick on a strike and the idea of have less of a belly in the line due to smaller dia. cant be a bad thing Im thinking.
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I'd hate to catch a record fish on braid...Unhappy
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Yeah I suppose if you were in comps and going for records etc you would use test mono but just recreationally cant be too much wrong with it. Worked well for us on Sunday anyway thats for sure Thumbs Up
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Big ups Gowest! Planning and then executing that plan with success, tops! Hopefully I have a report soon...
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Slow day out of Raglan few rat kings on 21 and 23 no marlin out wide. Did anybody have better luck?
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Originally posted by Gowest Gowest wrote:


Yeah I suppose if you were in comps and going for records etc you would use test mono but just recreationally cant be too much wrong with it. Worked well for us on Sunday anyway thats for sure Thumbs Up

yeah good work chad and crew, mate nothing like nailing that first one a, doesn't matter what the gear is, it got the job done a,will probably go for poke in the weekend weather permitting,have you pumped it thru the smoker yet?? hope you kept the bill and tail and while on that subject does anyone have any good ideas on how to prep them for putting up in the man cave?? theyre currently chilling in the deep freeze untouched
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Dnt fish in side 100m if fishing from rags 35m to 80m waters blue but dead
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true mark, heard of a couple hook-ups in 30 and 50 m over the week, one on a kingie bait, but well just see what the waters doing on the day, might soak some baits for a change, been working on a down rigger set up, keen as to give it its first run, nice work on that fin up north, pic would of been stoked to get that one for the boat, must of taken out tuna category, you guys catch much else,
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There's a full trip report it's down tho bottom of the main page yer the fish mite in side the 100m meter line but there's 3 times more boats fishing in side 100m for a lot less fish like at all the top boats all there fish are from out side 100m and I have started seen a lot more fishing out there
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Solid day out of Raglan yesterday. Covered a lot of water inc. the Trench. Saw a free jumper around the 100m line, but otherwise a very lifeless looking sea! Still a great day out. Tend to agree, that probabaly better to be fishing 70m out....
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Yeah cheers guys feels good alright! Yeah got it of to the smoker on monday. Gona get the head mounted. Kept the tail to. Ive heard formaldahyde to preserve and dry the thing out ( tail or bill ) and then a coat of varnirnish, resin or polyurethane etc to seal it and give it a bit of a sheen?
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Damn show off Gowest. My missus had a 80-90kg stripy on today for 20 seconds. It went nuts and a few simple mistakes by these amatures saw it swimming for another day. Had a very large tuna that I couldn't identify must have been 20kg plus chasing a lure mouth openalarge Albert?. I did the mistake of laying it back but when the weight came back on the lure got airborne and the tuna flagged it. Damn I should have just speed up the boat but my old man was driving. It would ave been swipping at the lure for at least 20 seconds. Dropped another unseen strike that took the lure as it dived and went to the horizon before dropping...note a theme here...
Did get a alby and nestled in for a bottom bounce that gave us snapper and blue cod.
Got back in the bar and lost my steering and could only use our weight hanging over the side to steer...damn seal bust and all it took was 30 mill lost of the hydrolic fluid and all was gone...sigh another job for the list
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Least you werent at the 120 meter mark re the steering ,great action on the tuna, must of been good to see.Thumbs Up
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Got my first Mahi Mahi for the season today. Great water out there
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What size Crazy Horse? Around floatsome ? Awesome eating fish.
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There got to be some Blues out there eating those little suckers ay? Sheryl from RSFC told us of a guy who dropped a 200Kg + blue that got dropped of the shelf not long ago. They must be out there
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Mate got one in th boot 90m off manukau today sounds very fishy
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