Tuna, Tuna and more Tuna
Woke up on Saturday not planning on going out but checked the weather report and it looked half decent. Decided to call up a mate who has recently caught the fishing bug and take him out for some whiting, herring and squid as this was the type of fishing he'd been doing but from the beach.
Got down to Woodies at about 9:30am (a bit late but hey it was a last minute decission to go out) and started to head to the usual squidding grounds. I've been picking on him a bit for only catching whiting and herring as these are bait in my eyes and figured once he got into something decent he'd feel the same. The seas didn't look to bad so decided we'd go out further to get him onto something a bit bigger than whiting on 5 fathom. He's been going on about how great the herring he catches are for sushi so as we got to Carnac the seas still looked ok so I asked him if he wanted to try his luck with some Tuna.
So off we went to the south side of Rotto where I've had some luck with the Tuna, usually getting into a couple each time I've been out but a bit hit and miss. Got to the spot where I've been trolling (due to their always being bait fish) sent out the lures and within a couple of minutes one of the rods was screaming out line. Told my mate to grab that one as I wanted him to land his first decent fish, grabbed the other rod and I hooked up too. Unfortunately his came off but landed mine and it wasn't a bad size 8kg.
Into the eski it went, lures into the water and we were off again. It didnt' take long and the rods were screaming out line and he finally had his first Tuna, he was stoked. Over the three hours we trolled, we had over 20 hook ups and landed 15 Tuna so it was a brilliant day out. I'm guessing my mate won't have the same thrill with a herring next time he's beach fishing...
Yewiefish85
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Even better sushi fish
Even better sushi fish there!!!!!
Yewiefish85
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Great fish, Mmmmm tuna steaks
Great fish, Mmmmm tuna steaks
barneyboy
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Nice size fish
can you send a few down to bunners please!!
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
soupster51
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Sounds like a quality tuna session. Great stuff.
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scotto
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sweet.
good to see they are still about, and looks like they are gettin a bit bigger too.
Captain Grumpy
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Nice going!
Is it just me or do tuna take a liking to the pink chrome colour???
it seems to do the trick down here and up north. is it your preferred lure colour for metro tuna Grooveepants?
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Grooveepants
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Have been mainly using the
Have been mainly using the Silstar Xmas Trees but we had a few come off so decided to throw this Halco Laser Pro out. Haven't been able to use it over the past couple of weeks due to the amount of weed out (the xmas trees dont' seem to have a problem with the weed) but there wasn't much out yesterday. Was advised by an old work collegue (Davo) that these were the way to go if using diving lures and he was right, it got smashed over and over again, there isn't much paint left on the thing now.
chrisp
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Solid metro tuna..
There mate. Im not sure if its just the camera angle but if not that second tuna looks very solid for a metro tuna.
Grooveepants
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Probably the camera angle,
Probably the camera angle, the first pic was the biggest caught.
fishing94
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some great tuna caught good
some great tuna caught good work :P
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abeldog
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Very Nice
Work, Good to see a variety of lures working
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mejutty
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Did any of these tuna have
Did any of these tuna have those white spots as reported by a couple of other fishers on here recently??
Grooveepants
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Nope, the flesh was sweet.
Nope, the flesh was sweet. I've only had the white lumps in a stripey