Wife's first striped tuna
The wifes becoming a bit of a tuna magnet. I went out to get to know how to use a new dragonfly plotter/sonar i just bought and thought well i may as well pull a lure behind. she got her first of several nice southern bluefin tuna off rotto westend last summer, got her first YFT at coral bay a few weeks ago and now just got her first striped tuna - it was 82cm long felt like about 6-7 kilo's. Got it on a medium size rapala magnum in basic mulie pattern in 19m line right on the safe lead line out of Mindarie keys yesterday arvo at 5:30. Birds and tuna were feeding there so pulled the lure around and through the school - whack straight away. caught on 8kg line and took a while to tire it out after several runs from the boat. Went looking for the school again but couldnt find them. Lots of flying fish out there water temp varied from 21 - 22 degrees. Saw Heaps of schools of large fish sitting mid-depth but never got a strike from them. even stopped and threw SP's down around them but nothing seemed interes. Weed not much of a problem either only hooked it about 3-4 times over a period of about 2 hours. Bring on the pelagic season!
sea-kem
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Yep! I was right the first
Yep! I was right the first time ;)
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Rig
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down boy
sea-kem
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Ha ha couldn't resist. But
Ha ha couldn't resist. But seriously though good effort on the fish. Love catching Tuna! Well done!
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diver albie
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Gold
Solid gold
opsrey
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Well done.
Good to see the ladies catching a few.
dant
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good to see Beer oclock -
good to see Beer oclock - cant wait for the mrs to hook a few pelagics myself.
Heading out with the oldies on friday - they want to go KG fishing, but might have to do a bit of a troll around to see what i can see, from all the reports there is a few out there......
tim-o
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Good news, what are the
Good news, what are the stripeys like on the chew, sashimi?
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
beeroclock
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Ive heard mixed reports about eating them
some people love em but it seems most people dont rate them very highly and use them for bait instead. I like smoking tuna so i'll try it like that, the wifes anglo-indian so no doubt a striped tuna curry will be on the menu. Even though I bled it straight away I noticed that the flesh was still really bloody and deep red in colour. Will give it a try, if its pretty ordinary done both ways well at least ive got lots of big chunks of frozen tuna for that big dhuie come 16th December.