Yippee: The drought has well and truly broken
at last, with the first marlin tagged and released being confirmed
as - Angler Guy Sutherland from the vessel Lavante, a Striped
marlin, Tag # G105364, Time 0630hrs 4th Jan 2012 for the Bay of
Islands Swordfish Club Inc. This fish was caught approximately 25nm
from the 3 Kings. The first weighed marlin of the season caught by
an affiliated member goes to Donna Pascoe fishing from the vessel
Gladiator. Donna caught a striped marlin on Thursday at 0859 and is
a member of the Houhora Big Game & Sports Fishing Club. The fish
was caught close to the 9 Pin Trench and was courtesy weighed by the
Whangarei Deep Sea Anglers Club weighing in at 96.6 kg. Clubs from
Waihau Bay through the Bay of Plenty right up to Houhora have
reported marlin seen, hooked up to and lost.
Another
first for this
year was a fine yellowfin tuna weighed at Tutukaka caught from a new
trailer boat run by Terry Williams-King. Angler Dave Osbourne
managed to land one from a double strike out wide from Home Point
that went to scale at a magnificent 54 kg caught on 24 kg line. With
another around 20 kg caught further north on the same day, that’s
two more yellowfin for this season. Is there more to come? Let us
hope so.
Waihau
Bay has recorded
two big bass for the season 70.2 and 64 kg with one being caught by
a junior angler. There are also reports of a mahimahi and a
shortbill spearfish that were caught east of White Island. Also
caught on the 6-1-2012 - by junior angler Andrew Randrup fishing
from the family trailer boat “B-caus” who weighed in a really nice
striped marlin that went 137.4 kg. A great start for the juniors and
the Waihau Bay Club.
The Bay of Islands
Swordfish Club
just missed the first marlin double when local vessel Black Label
caught a striped marlin that was boated in the afternoon of Thursday
5th (the same day as Gladiator’s fish in the morning) and
also from the BOISC, the charter vessel “Independence” tagged a
marlin and brought in a 28.4kg shortbill
spearfish.
The West
Coast: Fishing out from the Manukau is
starting to pick up with a double strike being reported and dropped.
Albacore and skippies are there in numbers and it is only a matter
of time. Most are predicting a good run of big fish like last
year.
Just in from
Tauranga: Hot off the wires – a big black
marlin is coming in. The good ship “Jan’s Decision” went out late
Friday night and stayed at Mayor Island for an early start on
Saturday, Three likely lads woke up to 20 knot winds and rising
conditions. Needless to say they decided to head in and then it
happened. Trolling back into 80 ms and the big fish showed on the
lure which was promptly eaten, hooked up and went ballistic. Angler
Beni Hafahu set to work and 2 hours later the call was that it had
died on them and a 20 minute slug fest followed....using the swell
and max pressure on their Tiagra 80W they lifted the fish inch by
inch ‘til it popped up and the boys got to appreciate the impressive
black marlin lying beside their gaffs. The rest is history and the
scales pulled down to 375KGs!! An excellent result for the
entire team......nicely done fullas!!
Tight lines and have a wonderful
holiday and remember everything in moderation including
moderation.
Editor
NZ
Sport Fishing Council, PO Box 93, Whangarei 0140, Ph:
+64 9 433
9648
