Wed 25 Mar 2009
Went game fishing with my mate and co-skipper of the Anglers Anonymous sportfishing boat today. The start of 6:30am was a little early for my liking given the few social drinks consumed yesterday evening at the Bay Of Islands Swordfish Club in Paihia at the finish of the Hoppin tournament we had just been in - but I dare not argue with Steve!
I was having a wee nap up the front of the boat when the right rigger rod went off and we both bolted into action. With Steve on the wheel and me on the rod the fight lasted around 20 minutes and though we are both fans of catch and release, I must admit that we did keep this one to christen the new boat and get a few photos for advertising - we did think it was a little bigger at the time and it would have been over 90 had we weighed it in straight away rather than trauling for the rest of day - weiged in the evening at 87.3kg.
We decided that it had been a great move earlier to remove the remaing bottles of Lion Red beer from the boat - which had evidently caused the hard days fishing yesterday - and that me staying away from the helm was also in the best interests of hooking fish so I was sent back below to have another nana nap. We briefly hooked - for a few seconds - two mahi mahi before heading back to Russell to weigh in the Marlin.
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