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Old 10-06-2009, 09:49 AM   #16
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Re: Bluefin are hard to spear?

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Old 10-06-2009, 09:53 AM   #17
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Some great footage there.

The bluefins in New Zealand are bit tougher then just point blank shooting. First you have to get in next to a trawler doing 10-15 knots with wires and cables and all kinds of ****ed up shit and a prop bigger then the boat you are on going by. Once you get over al those dangers then you can concentrate on the 15ft makos and then try to relax enough to take a shot at one of the monsters which are moving at a pretty good clip since they don't want to leave the trawler were all the food is. Still alot of fun and the adrenaline really gets going. And well for me the water was freezing.

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See, that's the other side I hadn't heard. I was basing my statement on what KJflyfish told me at the gat-ku. Sounds like a hell of a lot of fun to go get one of those big ones.
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Old 10-06-2009, 10:30 AM   #18
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Some great footage there.

The bluefins in New Zealand are bit tougher then just point blank shooting. First you have to get in next to a trawler doing 10-15 knots with wires and cables and all kinds of ****ed up shit and a prop bigger then the boat you are on going by. Once you get over al those dangers then you can concentrate on the 15ft makos and then try to relax enough to take a shot at one of the monsters which are moving at a pretty good clip since they don't want to leave the trawler were all the food is. Still alot of fun and the adrenaline really gets going. And well for me the water was freezing.

Any tuna is a good tuna.


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Agreed. If you're comfortable diving up here in No Cal, the water there is workable, but the amount of hardware in the water along with the usual smattering of sizeable Makos and your heart rate never going below 100 bpm... it's a different deal. Even working ON the trawlers, hoki or otherwise, is a struggle.
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Old 10-06-2009, 10:36 AM   #19
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It's amazing how much water is moving in the boil after they leave. Gives an inkling of the power they're generating even moving slowly.
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