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Game Fishing Na onals
This started like every Nationals, several weeks earlier with me & Had’s (Don Haddon) talking up the prospect of slaying large Blue Marlin at Waihau Bay in the eastern Bay of Plenty, home to some of New Zealand’s largest blues with a super close fishery putting the lures in 3 miles from the ramp. This year we used a McLay 680 with an Evinrude E-tec 200 HO strapped to the back of it, looking like a formidable platform to head south with. We arrived at James farm which is a 5 minute ride to the ramp, set up camp & got the boat sorted then started the great debate of which lures & where to troll them over a couple of coldies. Day 2 Sunday, up at a cracking pace, 8.30am down to the ramp. Off to the secret spot in the middle of the bay, 15 mins away from the ramp then out with the chosen lures. Had only one shot with a large blue smashing the Bagwan Blue Angel on the port rigger, ripping out a heap of line then, next minute it's off the starboard corner in the air heading back across to the portside & gone. Psycho Fish!!! Day 3 Monday, towed baits most of the morning & lures in the arvo. No bites, damn it! Day 4 Tuesday, back out to where we had the shot on Sunday. Was morning tea time and had the jug on waiting for it to boil, sure as s#!t a fish had come in & grabbed the short lure on the port side, didn’t see the fish & it initially didn’t take a lot of line, I thought it might have been a shark? After about 3 minutes & ¾ of an empty 80w I guessed a little different! At one stage we charged forward for a nautical mile at 20 knots just to keep the line tight, this happened a further two more times. These fish are crazy! An hour & a half later we had come to a stalemate with the fish 80m straight underneath us. No one was winning, time to sunset it, clamp down on the spool & try to plane the fish up before it died. With Had’s not happy about losing any line & telling us so after fighting so hard to get it, slowly driving away putting some angle on paid off with the fish slowly coming to the surface just kicking, in went the tag just in case, very quickly followed by the flyers! 2 hours after first hooking it, it was in the boat! A cheeky celebratory ale & call to the weigh station then we were on our way back. The Blue Marlin weighed 222kg, & straight off to smokey. We went out again the following days and chased some bottom fish. At the end of the week we still had the heaviest weighed fish for Waihau Bay Club taking out the Heaviest Marlin trophy & the sweepstake, with Waihau Bay taking out the Billfish Fish section of the Nationals. Another great fishing adventure. - Greg McKinney
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