Thread: Jack Mackeral for eating

Originally Posted by hunter308

That is one thing I have never had a chance to have a scrap with on a rod and reel and that is a marlin and a tuna and those two fish are on my bucket list to get in to a scrap with when I get an opportunity to do so.

I will never forget the day we got our first Marlin. I was holding onto the mainline with about 15m out and a frisky little skippy attached.
I said to my mate (who had caught plenty up north) "how do I know when its getting eaten"?
He said "you'll fuckin know alright"!!
About 10 mins later the skippy on the end of my line was getting super agitated and then this bill and head and fish come flying out of the water and swallowed it whole, ripping the line out of my hands then taking line like a maniac.
My mate was up so he jumped in the chair and 55 mins later we had tagged and released our first Strippey!!
Buzzy as!
I myself am yet to get a marlin but have been skipper for a couple and present on many close but no cigars.
Nothing comes close to the mayhem that goes on ha ha ha!

Originally Posted by Gibo

I will never forget the day we got our first Marlin. I was holding onto the mainline with about 15m out and a frisky little skippy attached.
I said to my mate (who had caught plenty up north) "how do I know when its getting eaten"?
He said "you'll fuckin know alright"!!
About 10 mins later the skippy on the end of my line was getting super agitated and then this bill and head and fish come flying out of the water and swallowed it whole, ripping the line out of my hands then taking line like a maniac.
My mate was up so he jumped in the chair and 55 mins later we had tagged and released our first Strippey!!
Buzzy as!
I myself am yet to get a marlin but have been skipper for a couple and present on many close but no cigars.
Nothing comes close to the mayhem that goes on ha ha ha!

Do you deep water fish much. if you are out the back of Motiti you might be able to pot some Scampi you might end up with the odd hag fish thou.

Originally Posted by mucko

Do you deep water fish much. if you are out the back of Motiti you might be able to pot some Scampi you might end up with the odd hag fish thou.

By deep do you mean deep bottom like bluenose etc? Not really aye. All those fish taste bloody good but im into a fight not a haul ha ha.
Used to a bit but cant be arsed now. Arnt scampi like sardine size?? Thought i used to see them jumping and shit while game fishing? Oh is that sauri? Whats scampi???

Originally Posted by Gibo

By deep do you mean deep bottom like bluenose etc? Not really aye. All those fish taste bloody good but im into a fight not a haul ha ha.
Used to a bit but cant be arsed now. Arnt scampi like sardine size?? Thought i used to see them jumping and shit while game fishing? Oh is that sauri? Whats scampi???

Scampi used to trawl for them from barrier to the mayor sometime to motiti that link will help you we used to get them from 250m to 450m along with a lot of other fish like Ling. Sauri i think is what you see is basicly a prawn i think.

Originally Posted by mucko

Scampi used to trawl for them from barrier to the mayor sometime to motiti that link will help you we used to get them from 250m to 450m along with a lot of other fish like Ling. Sauri i think is what you see is basicly a prawn i think.

You just confused the hell out of me Mucko!
So Skampi is a prawn thing and so is Sauri?