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Went out today (Boxing Day) for an early morning fish in Rarotonga and caught this beauty, 20kg Mahimahi, my arms are buggered. Cruised round two fads trying to hook some tuna and came up empty handed so headed out a little further, spotted some birds and trawled thru them hooking this bugger.
He's a big block headed bugger alright
Good one! I've seen videos of people catch these fish on YouTube and wondered what they were.
That is a big ugly fish
That's a big TASTY fishQuote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
Good shit!
Wicked fish! What a horse!
Nice fish
Nice fish . What charter boat , out of interest ?
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Fantastic!
Its a boy if TV has taught me anything.
Tv has taught you well
What do they go like on a plate? I'm thinking marlin type texture/taste?
Thats the only fish on my bucket list.
Great fish and beautiful eating. Only ever caught one (a 14kg bull outside Whangaparoa harbour) but they are a fish too remember. Aerobatic and colourful.
Dolphinfish/mahimahi is fucking delicious. My favorite pelagic, so yum. That's a decent size one, well done, hope you get a decent hunk off it, or did you go out with "Capt" Moko?
Awesome mahimahi there!
Damn I've had Yea but know I'm hungry
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Nice sized mahi mahi mate, would love to catch one that big. We had a stags do game fishing in raro, but unfortunately no luck.
If any of you get one of these around the boat, try and keep them in close because all there buddy's come round and you can hook two our three if you keep them in the water.
Best take the photo of them straight away as the colours go from them very fast!
As said before really really good eating :P just amazing, probably some of the best fish I've caught and eaten.
Good fighting fish too!!! If you can hook a couple:O_O::thumbsup:
We took a 1/3 of it back to the hotel, got the chef to cook it, it fed 10 off us and still a massive plate left over.
Brendan from Dawn Breaker charters, small boat but he'll of a nice guy, called him on Xmas day to organise my son and I for a Boxing Day fish, landed the fish then back to the wharf, big seas. I would highly recommend him, I'll go out with him again next time I'm here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munsey
The thing I remember most vividly when I caught my first one was the 'holy fucking shitballs' mess it made of the cockpit when it went spastic once we got it onboard. It wasn't even that big.
This did the same, gaffed and straight into the ice box, my boy had to sit on the lidQuote:
Originally Posted by Proudkiwi
When we going?Quote:
Originally Posted by Timmay
Back in Auckland now, was only over there 3 days.
It must have taken 500m of line, it was like winding in a bag of cement, made harder by the big seas we were in. Every now and then it would take a few meters of line back but really amazed at how spastic it went when hauled aboard.
Yep you need to keep fingers and toes safe as they have a good bite on them:O_O:
