The Fishing Website : Discussion Forums : Landbased Marlin Easter Trip https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:40:05 +0000 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:51:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.01 360 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=28216 <![CDATA[The Fishing Website : Discussion Forums]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/ <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : JK i haven&#039;t landed a fish...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=398216&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#398216 Author: kiwinoz
Subject: 28216
Posted: 21 Apr 2008 at 9:51pm

JK i haven't landed a fish live baiting this seasonOuch its not for want of trying either!!

unfortunately my 50W locked up on me in two consecutive trips! i had it serviced before the season then went for a fish and crunch. got another bloke to have a play with it, went fishing and crunch! god damn! i didn't set baits after it started playing up, not fair on the other guys... or me!!

this is the only real fish i've landed this season..




mac tuna on spin; lure rapala slash bait 140mm, 15lb fireline under 50lb trace.

kurt
]]> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:51:47 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=398216&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#398216 <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : Great posts there kurt mate. Have...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394216&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394216 Author: JK
Subject: 28216
Posted: 12 Apr 2008 at 2:52pm

Great posts there kurt mate. Have you got pics of your one from this season? Saw robs black from a few months back, nice fish!]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:52:37 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394216&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394216 <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : it can be boring as all hell,...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394182&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394182 Author: kiwinoz
Subject: 28216
Posted: 12 Apr 2008 at 10:45am

it can be boring as all hell, i spent 3 weeks fishing last year before i got a run... thats 1 run!

marlin will come in very close, i have seen fish hooked within 20ft of the rocks.

we have plenty of issues with boats as well, when we hooked the fish i described above there was a boat anchored 80m directly in front of the ledge! funny thing was he was in a boat fishing for snapper or kings and we were hooking beaky's off the bricks. i just wish that fish had of come out of the water before we parted company... i reckon it might have just blown his mind!

there are certain boats at JB that have cut off plenty of good fish, one at kiama too come to think of it.  i havn't had a run in with these guys yet but it amazes me that one particular boat is still afloat. we all know who it is and where they moor..

you put a guy on a ledge full of fishos in 38 C day in day out for a month, 2 stroke pumps buzzing away all night,  a nor easter that will just about drive you nuts and then have some noddy dive boat operator cut off his fish, just like the guy did to someone else the day before..

the bloke in kiama is worse because he's a charter boat operator and refuses to run wide around the point! he has been asked plenty of times, reckons it will cost him too much in fuel so he leaves his auto pilot on!

just out of interest there were fish hooked in excess of 200kg this year, they put one on the rocks ant 163kg aswell. i wouldn't be intimidated by the size as they all fight differently, mine went 105kg and i had it to the gaff in 20 mins on 24kg.

you can go really hard on these fish and i wouldn't be concerned about ripping the hell out of the rod and running across the ledge like a maniac trying to turn a fish. the biggest problem you have is they will die on you...

kurt

ps. i've got to get outta here now, got a week off and heading north to chase long tail! will put in a report...
]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:45:36 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394182&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394182 <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : Hi Kurt,Any information from you...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394158&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394158 Author: INOV8A
Subject: 28216
Posted: 12 Apr 2008 at 9:04am

Hi Kurt,
Any information from you guys over there is greatly appreciated! I think we have all come to the conclusion that it is definately "time on the rocks" that will produce the results.
Unfortunately for most, finding the time is getting harder and harder. Not only do you need to find the time yourself as an angler, but you need a mate or two to help. I was wanting to fish yesterday, but could not find enough people last minute when a mate pulled out.

I have probably done around 14 days for a marlin this season. It has to be the most boring fishing off the rocks! This season there has been a distinct shortage of big kingfish in close and on discussion with others it seems they may be out on the deep reefs?
So once they are not around to catch while your Marlin baits are out soaking, whats left is the odd kahawai and trevally, which you soon get a little bored of catching.
The water is generally too deep to be a good snapper ledge too.

Unforunately we are now probably in the last month of our season, and looking at the forecast, next week looks crap, hope to get out again, but we'll see.

There are rocks that you would definately hook one in no time, such as Cape Brett, but it would be a large Black (150kg+) and you have to contend with the tourist boats twice a day and then there are the other boats! So it would be a constant battle to hold on to your rigs.
In saying that, you'd probably hook it within 100m of the rocks. The spot is very swell dependent too.

Epic, Superloafs would be a great spot to try and certainly closer for me than Cape Karikari. Put it to a few mates earlier in the season, so might give it a try sometime, even just to chase Kings!


]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:04:23 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394158&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394158 <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : while i&#039;m at it i might as...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394112&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394112 Author: kiwinoz
Subject: 28216
Posted: 12 Apr 2008 at 12:05am

while i'm at it i might as well throw a few more ideas around..

the runs of fish i have seen over here have been consistent with moon phases, well most of them..

it seems with the new or full moons you get larger tides, if this is combined with a favorable wind you might just see the water turn over and if it does thats when you want a bait in the water! one could draw conclusions that more tidal movement can tip the scales enough to give a poor bugger on the rocks a decent chanceBig%20smile

thinking about water changes brings another thought to mind.. we were chasing fin down south last year and the water was dead flat, mirror flat. it was running a bit but just looked too clear, and way too good. we had been fishing this water for about 4 days with bugger all action so when 3pm rolled over we thought we'd drive the 40 mins back to town and stock up some supplies.

We returned to the camp a bit latter on to see the chap we were fishing with doing big arm pumps. i thought he got a big king king... check out the ute.. he dropped the tail gate.. 100lb yellow fin!

after we left the water pushed out and a slip stream of the dirty stuff shot through close to the ledge his bait was on the colour change and there was FIN! only took the bloke 10 years to catch that fish!

next day he hooked a marlin amongst a school of fin.. and he was pissed, guess he wanted another fin.

the point i'm trying to make is that if the water looks like crap thats good because it will change and if your there when it does..

i am by no means any authority on any of this stuff, just haven't been on this forum for a while so i thought i would share a few experiences.

good luck,

kurt
]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:05:10 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394112&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394112 <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : great to here the hunt is still...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394111&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394111 Author: kiwinoz
Subject: 28216
Posted: 11 Apr 2008 at 11:43pm

great to here the hunt is still on! reading this thread brings a few things to mind as well..

i guess the NZ LBG scene is a little different to over here but there would have to be similarities.

front ledges are great but i would never discredit fishing just inside the bay, if the current runs past and causes the water to eddy or upwell keeping the bait locked inside you could be in for a very good time!

i only got down for one beaky bash this season and was probably the best days south coast fishing i have seen. We saw 4 marlin hooked 1, landed 1 13kg king and lost another while having a ball on spin gear with the rats. The beak that ash got connected to wore through the leader in around 4 minutes, 150lb ande pink. The fish must have been bill wraped (around both bills and sawed through as it was breathing) as 150lb is a fairly common leader weight around these parts and plenty of long battles have been won on what may seem like a light leader.

another thing to keep in mind is that marlin takes are very rarely fast, the fish i have seen hooked just tick off the reel.. others have reported similar. once you set the hook things get a bit more lively but they seldom match the speed of a tuna. when they start playing up and trying to bill smack the hell out of the heavens is when things heat up!

i have said this before but how much time are you guys putting into this chase?? its not uncommon for blokes to spend a month or more fishing one headland over here, thats 14 hrs per day every day (i did it last year). It seems that when you watch videos like marlin off the rocks, if your far enough away you can think oh its too easy over there.. a lot of effort goes into trying to work these fish out and then getting hook in face! guess i got my timing right this year aswell. NEW MOON!

tight lines,

kurt
]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:43:32 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=394111&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#394111 <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : Good luck guys, it has to happen...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=392754&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#392754 Author: carlostairua
Subject: 28216
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 at 3:01pm

Good luck guys, it has to happen soon!!

The marlin the guys gaffed in eastland has to have you confident it will happen at some stage, just a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and all the preparation and time spent will be worth it!   BTW, there are a lot of marlin running close to shore off the Coro at the moment....... Not sure about the legalities of landing at the Sugarloafs (ie whether they are classed by DoC as part of the Aldermen Is) but if so, to me that has got to be THE PLACE to have a shot right now? Need some good weather and no swell though....

Anyway, you've got to be happy with a bycatches like a 26kg kingi in the meantime..!!

All the best]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:01:23 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=392754&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#392754 <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : Yeah guyz Hi. I&#039;m a marlin...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=392710&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#392710 Author: nzkingfisher
Subject: 28216
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 at 12:37pm

Yeah guyz Hi.  I'm a marlin off the bricks entrepreneur as well, and just thought I'd introduce myself again.  I have a big pain with cray pots around the area that I target.  I think I hooked one once.  I've never seen anything pull line off so fast.
Stripped off 200m in a couple of seconds, and then pulled the hook.  Never got a look though.  It may have been a dolphon though, there was a big bottlenose hanging around for a while.
I fish far north usually, but my mate saw one in the surf off Bayley's beach last summer.
 
]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:37:25 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=392710&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#392710 <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : a question for Northland Marlin...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=390576&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#390576 Author: Al BG
Subject: 28216
Posted: 02 Apr 2008 at 3:35pm

a question for Northland Marlin exponents - do you have problems with craypots littered around your favourite ledges? We have big probs at East Cape, every decent reefy ledge sticking out into the current has one or two cray pots there...Can be a problem even on big kings and our last trip saw us run around the pots by a big stinger. ]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:35:00 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=390576&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#390576 <![CDATA[Landbased Marlin Easter Trip : Great kingi, hard luck on the...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=390516&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#390516 Author: the gas man
Subject: 28216
Posted: 02 Apr 2008 at 12:23pm

Great kingi, hard luck on the marlin.  Looks the "marlin off the rocks" day can't be too far away.  Huge effort.]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:23:02 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28216&PID=390516&title=landbased-marlin-easter-trip#390516