Thread: Yellowfin time

Any guys round this area. Get out there. Some superb yf getting caught.

Sunday we went 9 fish from 10 bites with the tenth sharked. Had to stop as they kept engulfing lures and was meaning we couldn't release.

Good size? Been waiting for the anchovy ball to start at the back of whale

A nice YFT landed off Kawhia in the weekend! Yeha! they are on the west coast again!! time to start looking for them!

Mean. What sort of Depth? I'm up at Whangaroa over New Years. I'm so keen to catch one.

They were feeding on baby gem fish in about 10m. Spewing up loads of it. Actually blocked the bilge pump leadung to a but of a mess.
25kilo range.
Last fish had quite the range in it. Picked it up further away from most of the action as we're we cleaning up and just dragging a lure. Had mirror dory, gems, and a pike of fresh squid in it.
We were out last Sunday too but only had a large albie.

Some good ones off whangaroa and more so of nine pin.


We were in 300 or so.

imo from a sport and eating perspective yellowfin are the best

Originally Posted by Double_massive

A nice YFT landed off Kawhia in the weekend! Yeha! they are on the west coast again!! time to start looking for them!

Please tell us more! size? depth of water? normally fish off Port Waikato or Manukau so not that far really. This time of year, normally never take game gear always chasing spring snapper.

It was a 47kg model, can't say i know anymore than the boat was off Kawhia, talking to a mate, he commented that the conditions weren't the greatest there in the weekend so his guess is it would of been caught in a 100m of water or less maybe..

Fingers crossed they keep moving south!! certainty will be happy to welcome one aboard

Keen to give it a go. Usually up there every 3rd weekend what sort of gear does one need to give it a go.

Originally Posted by Quackers

Keen to give it a go. Usually up there every 3rd weekend what sort of gear does one need to give it a go.

For the most fun a decent stick bait set up, trolling lures is boring

What's sort of speed? 7 knots?

Pretty much. They're a fast fish. Can cope with speed. So long as your lures are working. Certainly want to be running a deep diver of soem sort this year. Bibbed or bibless. Last year was so good for yellow fin and this year it's started 2 months early. Let's hope it continues. Aussies has just had their best yf season on record. All good news. Just hope a few more marlin turn up as last year was extremely hard on that front.

Originally Posted by Gibo

For the most fun a decent stick bait set up, trolling lures is boring

You wold have got nothing last weekend with stick baits. They're not feeding on top water. Game fishing with stick baits is just lure trolling with a sore arm anyway.
Personally I like livey fishing best. But what ever is working is the go.

Last fish had quite a range in it.

That looks like jigs would have worked well if you were onto the fish.

Yeah little jugs to match the baby gems. Mind you we never marked a single yf. It's a big ocean ay.