wow! that bass picture is insane! is this a common sight?

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Still hunting for that double figure trout!

Give us a clue then, Mike. What fish is that? How did you take it? Would it worthwhile to try for them on fly?

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Buzzers 2012


Fly Clips & Stands

Hi Scratch, that is a Yellow Tail Kingfish. We were getting them at depths of30 to 60m so not much chance of one on the fly. We were high speed Jigging and livebaiting. Here in NZ these are a common summer time fish, but they are very hard to land, they fight hard and dirty and never give up, I have seen a guy get a 22kg fish close to the boat only for the fish to turn and head back down to reef him 50m down! They get up to about 45kg, but I would not want to be attached to one of that size.
They are catchable on a fly, it is just not easy! There is a DVD out called Green Tide, that features fly fishing for Kingfish, if you google the title you may get a short clip.
I am heading down to Tauranga harbour in early December and the Kingfish there can sometimes be found up on the flats, so I will be hoping to hook one on the fly.
All the best.
Mike

what a lovely brown. where did u catch that

My pb Broonie from the beginning of August weighing just over 3lbs and caught on a yellow klinky in skinny water off the Clyde.



Fantastic fight off the 4wt rod.

Cheers
Martin

That's a fat barsteward eh,hope it's a lb heavier for me next year-

hopefuly mate, twas caught on the upper bit of the lamington stretch. my mate had a 4lber on the same night. the scary thing is that we seen at least 3 fish that could possibly have been bout 5lbs + cant wait to get back oot for the broonies.

Wouuuu! A lot of big, nice and beautiful fishes.

Congratulations to all fishermans.

nice pics!!!

These are great love the action shots.