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12-05-2008, 03:05 AM | #16 |
snorklin'
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
Just had some for dinner - tried a soy marinate with Cajun rub and it was awesome.
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12-05-2008, 03:11 AM | #17 |
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
They're not the nicest fish in the sea to eat eh Kolt, but shit they're good fun to shoot!
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12-05-2008, 07:58 AM | #18 |
Ryan Cole
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
Awesome fish Kolt! Way to go!
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12-05-2008, 10:09 AM | #19 |
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
Damn nice freediving!!
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12-05-2008, 05:58 PM | #20 |
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
This morning two mates and I headed up to a good shore dive spot about an hour away... the place was going off.
The current had concentrated krill into a small area and the fish were there for the feed. Trevally, kahawai, koheru, maomao..... were all smashing the surface. On about my third dive I got a john dory, then my mate got a kingfish (yellowtail) from a school of ~20, five minutes later I was surrounded by about fifty, I got one, then it was mate number 2s turn. Th did well and shot his first ever yellowtail (his second dive ever). Usually one is the limit we set ourselves but not long after I saw a kingfish with a fisheries tag in it which I shot (stoned). (There is an unwritten obligation to recover tags whenever possible). Nice, what the hell am I going to do with two kingfish? Luckily on the swim home there was a fisherman on the rocks so I gave him the first kingfish and kept the tagged one. Saw heaps of others up to maybe 50 pounds well within range. Out of the water by 9am. All three kingfish were between 25-30 pounds, not big, but not small. |
12-06-2008, 05:11 AM | #21 |
snorklin'
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
Dove Laison's at White Island today. Saw lots of rats, but none of the big boys. Kane got some video of a school with some 30kg models, but they never swam by me. Pretty gutted.
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12-06-2008, 04:35 PM | #22 |
snorklin'
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
All I came away with from the White Island trip was a nice trevally and a bad taste in my mouth...I'll get my big kingy yet.
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12-06-2008, 08:33 PM | #23 |
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
All the big kings we've seen/shot at Laison's have been quite deep off the edges of the reef, only rats on top. Was there much current? How about the vis?
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12-06-2008, 08:50 PM | #24 | |
snorklin'
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
Quote:
I just had the trev as sashimi and it was really nice.
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12-08-2008, 11:30 AM | #25 |
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
Nice work Kolt. Got to love mornings like that. See you soon.
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12-08-2008, 05:33 PM | #26 |
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Re: Kingy for Breakfast
Nice kolt, looks like you're living the life!
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