left thismornin in a mates 8 metre centre consile lookin 4 makeral, it was a beautiful mornin on the bay so we made our way to 4 beakons only catching one nice mac tuna. we kept moving making our way to the curtain reef, after ten minutes anchored up on a good ledge a bit deeper. a mates rod takes off, this thing had some power and with 20 pound line he had to take his time, we were all thinkin cobes but when it finally surfaced it was a yellow tail kingy that went 15 kilos, good fish. after another 15 minutes burlying up there was heaps of colour under the boat havin a feed with some very big black shadows down there. next minute bang hes off again this thing absoulutely screaming his line off! almost being spooled we had to give the chase, we were all so sure it was a big cobe. half an hour later and taking us at least 200 metres up into the shallows we had colour, this was huge! playin it 4 another 10 min and after several more big runs it was gaffed! a yellow fin tuna that went 45 kilos and was around 1200 long!we were all amazed and have never seen a tuna at this size. i wish i had my camera with me but it was flat at home i shouldnt have taken it out friday night >
got some good fillets off the kingy but didnt hang round to c how the hell they were guna cut that monster up.ill try get some photos e mailed to me.
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