Mindarie Tuna
Submitted by bowds on Mon, 2011-05-23 10:40
Hey guys,
Had a mate take me out on my boat out back of 3 mile reef for a troll and hopefully some tuna and macks. No macks to speak of but manged to pull up my first stripey and bluefin tuna.
Went back yesterday and managed to pull up another good BFT. Awesome fun. Will keep trying for macks though ;)
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milsey
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well done mate, not a YFT. Id
well done mate, not a YFT. Id say SBT still just as good.
hlokk
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Thats some solid tuna there,
Thats some solid tuna there, must have been great fun. Especially that stripey, damn they go hard. Would drag any other tuna backwards. Imagine if they got to 20kg+ in out waters though :o
(they're longtails btw ;) Look pretty solid though)
barneyboy
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thats a solid stripey!!
nice fish
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
grayzeee
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very nice mate. best of luck
very nice mate.
best of luck with chasing the metro macks this year.
they got the better of me once again (tho prob should have put a lot more time into the chase)
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glastronomic
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I was out there today and it
I was out there today and it is Thick with baitballs north off 3 mile every where!
bowds
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you get any gastro?
you get any gastro?
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glastronomic
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No we were running latish we
No we were running latish we did almost 100NMLs and caught some nice bottom fish so sadly no time to troll, but will be back maybe tomorow if I can get a deckie to give me a hand.
Bit hard to troll on my own in the big tub.
terboz123
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there longtails not
there longtails not SBT......
the tails are far top long to be deemed SBT...
nice fish!
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I agree the first one is a
I agree the first one is a longy, but im pretty sure the second is a SBT, you can even see the little lighter lines which the SBT get and its too fat and stocky for a longtail
hlokk
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It certainly is a very solid
It certainly is a very solid tuna, but is a longtail. The body girth is around the first dorsal (extends to second on SBT), the second dorsal and anal fins are too long (and matches first pic) and the belly pattern is definitely a longtail (makes it super quick to pick). The SBTs mostly have vertical lines if they're visible: http://fishwrecked.com/image/tuna-14
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Longtails
have small opaque patches on the belly. Both them tuna clearly do
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BryanK
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Tuna
Well done, hope to see you out there soon.
bowds
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Will hopefully be giving it
Will hopefully be giving it another crack tomorrow with the good weather.
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Mulie
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Bugger
I was out there Wednesday. Saw a few bait balls and if I had of known there were still tuna around, I would of put some time in to them. On the good side, heaps of 35-40cm Pinkies around, so the next few years look good.
Mulie
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had another wonderfull day
had another wonderfull day today out on the big blue yonder!
It glassed off in the afternoon!