Fishing News - as at 6 Mar 2006
Posted By: Complied by various reports
on March 7th, 2006
Latest news – A very nice Striped marlin was capture yesterday (6/3/06) at St. Helens, the marlin weighed 89kg and was caught by a crew from Burnie from the NW Coast.
On the weekend - Saturday was a windy day with strong Southerly winds and at lunchtime there was only 8 boats on the marine rescue ‘sked’. Around 95% of the fish were found along the shelf line, these fish consisted of small Yellowfin, plenty of Stripy tuna around 2kg and Albys averaging the 6kg mark. Sunday was a flat calm, hot, bright and this turned the fish right off. One boat caught a shark approx 197 kg on 15 kg line and two Yellowfin around the 15kg figure were captured. This was the only exciting bit of gossip from Sunday. No boats over the weekend were bragging about large albacore or other large fish.
Monday started of with a strong southeasterly about 15-20 knots. This slowly degreased to a sea breeze about 11 am. Small Yellowfin again were caught, about 20 kg and the Albys and Stripies were very hard to catch. One piece of good news today was that one of the charter boats spotted a marlin just on the shelf edge near the cliff (This could have been the same marlin that was captured). The tuna still are out at the shelf and this makes for along slog on a rough day. Lets hope they come a little closer for the classic this weekend.
(Thanks goes out to those who contributed to this report)
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