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Secho

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Great trip with Cammo and Mick onboard Tintola. We trolled up to Port Stephens yesterday then trolled back today - we were out to find the warm water that had been pushing down on the charts in hope that there might be an early season marlin about... both big days on the water but well worth it in the end.

Yesterday we hooked a YFT off the back of the Norah Head Canyon but nothing else for the day (other than a thousand beers, turkeys and jacks). Today was a different story though, our first for the day was an XL Mako that took our shotty as we passed back through the Norah Canyons, managed to get the lure back before a smooth release, about an hour or so later a nice short billed spear fish whacked three different lures in the spread before falling to a 13 inch coggin - got it in about 1000 fathoms wide of Long Reef.

Things went nuts soon after that when we found an upturned vessel which looked like it had been in the water for a long time, not something you'd want to hit at high speed or in the dark but turned out to be an incredible fad. It was fully loaded with Kings, Dollies and YFT - from small fish right through to meter long kings and bulls - non stop action all afternoon!

We spent the rest of the day there and tossed back dozens and dozens of fish and we kept a few of the bigger ones to share amongst friends.. they were landed on trolled lures, jigs, poppers, single hooks ups, doubles, triples, pretty much anything that went into the water - shame we didn't have the go pro's on board as the underwater footage would have been awesome but iphone pics will give you an idea,

Cheers Secho.

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Assumed you reported the overturned vessel to Maritime with GPS marks so they could try and retrieve, who knows there could be quite a story to that, you may remember a few years ago a small boat tipped over up the north coast and all hands were lost and I don't think they found the boat?? I might be off base here hope my memory is right

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Assumed you reported the overturned vessel to Maritime with GPS marks so they could try and retrieve, who knows there could be quite a story to that, you may remember a few years ago a small boat tipped over up the north coast and all hands were lost and I don't think they found the boat?? I might be off base here hope my memory is right

Yes reported to Marine Rescue then water police called us a few hours later wanting to know the likely hood of people being in the water from the upturned tinny - I don't think they retrieve them that far offshore when they are on the drift, this thing was out in about 1100 or 1200 fathoms and they never asked us for the co-ordinates after we called it for having been in the water for more than a year or two.

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That is Crazy. I bet not many people would have seen fish or fishing like that around that OT boat in NSW or Australian waters. I bet that Kingy in the last picture went hard. You might now be able to aswer the age old question now. What fish pound for pound pulls the hardest? Has to be the Kiny out of them doesnt it? After catching all those species in close time frame whats do you reckon?

Dave

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That is Crazy. I bet not many people would have seen fish or fishing like that around that OT boat in NSW or Australian waters. I bet that Kingy in the last picture went hard. You might now be able to aswer the age old question now. What fish pound for pound pulls the hardest? Has to be the Kiny out of them doesnt it? After catching all those species in close time frame whats do you reckon?

Dave

Great question!

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Great question!

Mick worked a popper as soon as we pulled up there and a big yellowfin launched out of the water with it in its mouth but the hooks didnt stick - straight after that I hooked up on a jig and it ran deep and fast - ended up snapping an Okuma 24kg jig stick on it and fought on with only two eyes on the rod - luck rolled our way and we boated a yft - no doubt at they run heaps harder than kings - being down to one jig stick we ended up jigging using tiagra 80w's and were still landing them one after the other - crazy stuff!

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That is Crazy. I bet not many people would have seen fish or fishing like that around that OT boat in NSW or Australian waters. I bet that Kingy in the last picture went hard. You might now be able to aswer the age old question now. What fish pound for pound pulls the hardest? Has to be the Kiny out of them doesnt it? After catching all those species in close time frame whats do you reckon?

Dave

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