Wicked fish Tom bloody shyte hot  

Good sheet Tom wicked fish.

Fishing been insane the last couple of days, Lots of Monster fish around, In 2 days we put satt tags into 12 tuna, the tag-a-giant program from stanford uni USA is in partnership with pete saul from bluewater marine reaserch nz and as far as I know the main purpose is for conservation of the bluefin tuna fishery.

Bevan: from the start of the charter anglers stated they wern't worried about Igfa and were just out to catch fish, they weren't members of a club either just greymouth locals looking for good time, while one angler fought the fish for the entire fight though us deckies hooked the fish up and others held the angler down in the chair, realisticly there was no way the fish could count for a record, the angler knew  the size of his  fish and was given  the choice to tag or bag  and he chose to tag.

Kezza: agree with the sayn don't weigh don't say it, but since a sat tag was attached a realistic estimated had to be given, 400kgs was written on the tag form. geogre (the sat tager) has seen atlantics to 425kgs, adrain the other crewman was on cascade last year when measured out a bluefin at 350kgs and the larry the skipper who has commercially fished greymouth for 25-30years reacons it was the biggest tuna he has ever seen larger the fish they played 21hours last year.

as far as I know it was just F**Kn HUGE!

Awsome stuff Tom, did you have Jason on your trip ?  bet he is stoked  Me and Jay have done a lot of fishing over the years, hell of a nice guy.

Way to go Tom, awesome stuff dude, 5 hrs mate fark harden up ay lol, good on ya dude shlt hot.

any idea how many sat tags popped up on time last year? from memory they tagged 6 but I think I only saw one return on the TOPP site?

great stuff Tom.... good to hear you got out and managed some.....

was your fish hook during the day??

yeah i reckon daylight hours are not the best time to fight them either.....

haven't heard from Richard and he hasn't answered any emails lately so not sure what hes up to Tom.....

i remember Richard saying last year they had some whoppers around the boat in daylight and had a problem getting them to take any baits with hooks in them, this was late in the season so guess they are not to fussy at the moment but will get harder as the weeks go by......

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Whats happened to plonker?is he doing some sly F-----g and not reporting the goods.