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Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« on: August 28, 2012, 10:55:07 AM »
    SATURDAY
This was a trip to look for a big Shark, my guest even  brought along his own Tiagra 80 to do battle as on a previous trip on another  boat he hurt his hands on a big Shark using a KP Reel. We got going before  06h00 and made our way out to sea in very short and choppy waters with a stiff  NE breeze. I put  some feathers on to  look for some Kawakawa to use as bait for the Shark, and I struggled because  all we were getting was Yellowfin Tuna, after landing a few Yellowfin we  eventually succeeded in finding a nice size Kawakawa of around 7Kg and then  made our way to some Shark waters where we rigged the bait. Surprisingly we  waited a long time before we got a Shark and then the fight ensued with my  guest doing battle with a very large Black Tip Shark. We eventually got the  beast to the boat after about an hour, and I removed the hooks, as we were  about to take a pic I lost my footing in the very choppy sea and dropped the  beast.
I had a trip for that night but had to cancel when a  heavy SW buster came through.

SUNDAY
This was a family trip, by the time I had got out of port  the two little guys were fast asleep leaving Mom and Dad to do all the fishing.  The sea was flat and the current slow. I trolled some lines on our way out with  no luck, and when we got to the reefs we started bottom fishing. We were  rewarded with some good fish, a nice Mussel Cracker, some good Englishmen and some  nice size Slinger.

MONDAY
This was not a charter, I wanted to go out deep to see  the conditions with some mates, we had a look at the canyons in some 2000m of  water, and after 13.5hrs and some 320km we were rewarded with 2 Marlin strikes.  The first one came at the boat so fast after about 10min I was not able to keep  the line tight and we dropped him, the second one was about 4hrs later and the  line parted after a few minutes.

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2012, 10:56:12 AM »
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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2012, 11:00:20 AM »
Thats a bummer on the line parting, what where the water temps out there Mike?

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2012, 11:04:13 AM »
Thats a bummer on the line parting, what where the water temps out there Mike?
Mostly 21-22deg. C, in the current it was 23-24deg C

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2012, 11:09:50 AM »
why did the line part?
 

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2012, 11:18:18 AM »
Hell Mike, you've got me chomping at the bit now....
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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2012, 11:30:35 AM »

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2012, 11:35:06 AM »
why did the line part?
Bad Bimini on my part......... :-(

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2012, 12:12:22 PM »
nice one Mike, terrible to be forced to catch YFT. Were did you get them?

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2012, 12:16:09 PM »
nice one Mike, terrible to be forced to catch YFT. Were did you get them?
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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2012, 12:19:12 PM »
why did the line part?
Bad Bimini on my part......... :-(

Maybe you need to go the Aussie Plait route for Marlin?  :dunno:

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2012, 12:20:28 PM »
why did the line part?
Bad Bimini on my part......... :-(

Maybe you need to go the Aussie Plait route for Marlin?  :dunno:

First time its happened, will just pay more attention.

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2012, 12:21:52 PM »
Thanks Mike

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2012, 12:57:39 PM »
why did the line part?
Bad Bimini on my part......... :-(

Maybe you need to go the Aussie Plait route for Marlin?  :dunno:

First time its happened, will just pay more attention.

Ok. It's worth looking at though. Much neater and easier to do in huge diameter mono. Probably more reliable as well. It's what Shag and the boys use.

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2012, 03:31:41 PM »
    SATURDAY
This was a trip to look for a big Shark, my guest even  brought along his own Tiagra 80 to do battle as on a previous trip on another  boat he hurt his hands on a big Shark using a KP Reel. We got going before  06h00 and made our way out to sea in very short and choppy waters with a stiff  NE breeze. I put  some feathers on to  look for some Kawakawa to use as bait for the Shark, and I struggled because  all we were getting was Yellowfin Tuna, after landing a few Yellowfin we  eventually succeeded in finding a nice size Kawakawa of around 7Kg and then  made our way to some Shark waters where we rigged the bait. Surprisingly we  waited a long time before we got a Shark and then the fight ensued with my  guest doing battle with a very large Black Tip Shark. We eventually got the  beast to the boat after about an hour, and I removed the hooks, as we were  about to take a pic I lost my footing in the very choppy sea and dropped the  beast.
I had a trip for that night but had to cancel when a  heavy SW buster came through.

SUNDAY
This was a family trip, by the time I had got out of port  the two little guys were fast asleep leaving Mom and Dad to do all the fishing.  The sea was flat and the current slow. I trolled some lines on our way out with  no luck, and when we got to the reefs we started bottom fishing. We were  rewarded with some good fish, a nice Mussel Cracker, some good Englishmen and some  nice size Slinger.

MONDAY
This was not a charter, I wanted to go out deep to see  the conditions with some mates, we had a look at the canyons in some 2000m of  water, and after 13.5hrs and some 320km we were rewarded with 2 Marlin strikes.  The first one came at the boat so fast after about 10min I was not able to keep  the line tight and we dropped him, the second one was about 4hrs later and the  line parted after a few minutes.

Jeepers, 320kms where did you go, Port Shepstone?? How fast were you trolling?
 Well done on the Marlin pulls!
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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2012, 05:05:23 PM »
    SATURDAY
This was a trip to look for a big Shark, my guest even  brought along his own Tiagra 80 to do battle as on a previous trip on another  boat he hurt his hands on a big Shark using a KP Reel. We got going before  06h00 and made our way out to sea in very short and choppy waters with a stiff  NE breeze. I put  some feathers on to  look for some Kawakawa to use as bait for the Shark, and I struggled because  all we were getting was Yellowfin Tuna, after landing a few Yellowfin we  eventually succeeded in finding a nice size Kawakawa of around 7Kg and then  made our way to some Shark waters where we rigged the bait. Surprisingly we  waited a long time before we got a Shark and then the fight ensued with my  guest doing battle with a very large Black Tip Shark. We eventually got the  beast to the boat after about an hour, and I removed the hooks, as we were  about to take a pic I lost my footing in the very choppy sea and dropped the  beast.
I had a trip for that night but had to cancel when a  heavy SW buster came through.

SUNDAY
This was a family trip, by the time I had got out of port  the two little guys were fast asleep leaving Mom and Dad to do all the fishing.  The sea was flat and the current slow. I trolled some lines on our way out with  no luck, and when we got to the reefs we started bottom fishing. We were  rewarded with some good fish, a nice Mussel Cracker, some good Englishmen and some  nice size Slinger.

MONDAY
This was not a charter, I wanted to go out deep to see  the conditions with some mates, we had a look at the canyons in some 2000m of  water, and after 13.5hrs and some 320km we were rewarded with 2 Marlin strikes.  The first one came at the boat so fast after about 10min I was not able to keep  the line tight and we dropped him, the second one was about 4hrs later and the  line parted after a few minutes.

Jeepers, 320kms where did you go, Port Shepstone?? How fast were you trolling?
 Well done on the Marlin pulls!
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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2012, 09:06:52 PM »
if you did not see the fish how did you know they were billies

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2012, 11:20:54 PM »
if you did not see the fish how did you know they were billies
Its their time and it was the right place, and the take was a Billie take, but yes a calculated guess.

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Re: Fat Girls Week End.....with a Marlin surprise
« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2012, 08:06:22 AM »
Nice one Mike

 

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