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    Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 7:04pm
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What are the albacore feeding on, anyone checked?
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oh and white bait type transperant fry....well that was two weeks ago off the westcoast at least.....and lures!
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oh, whitebait, hmmm, you sure about that young man.
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wasnt that marlin the guy from counties caught out off the west coast just recently feeding on squid????
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Thankyou tugboat, check the contents of the albacore and you will find the same, both are feeding in the same area, find the albacore and you will find the marlin.
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Marlin weren't feeding on Tuesday then?
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the ones I gutted had...like I said...balls of whitebait type transluscent fry in their guts....

PS....it is very hard to say if there where marlin in the area as well mind you.....but I'll go with your science over my observation...

what I meant to say was that there where squid in their guts?
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would be hard to say wouldn't it lol

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considering we were "targeting" sharks for a show we were filming, yeah it was..
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Waihau bay last weekend they were feeding on squid
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Also saw them feeding on Sauries at Waihau bay as well last weekend. What boat were you on Ginga?
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We were on my tinnie ten percent, mainly chasing kings at the cape. Got a few but some serious sharks done there ate all our good ones. What boat were you on bob.
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spoke to someone who caught and gutted a marin out of whangaroa last weekend.....full of squid.....also the albies they landed were spewing up squid
great if you ask me...have always had better results on squid coloured lures rather than the purp/black....having said that you will only catch the fish on the lures you have in the water so if you tow light coloured lures thats what you get them on and the same for dark
really starting to question if it makes a lot of difference at the end of the day
you lure makers out there must have put in the hours re colours...how important is it really
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The point I'm trying to make here, and it is not science, is if you work an area that is holding albacore in a known depth that the marlin have been getting caught, you can be confident that you "may be" in the right area.
somthing to think about, if you haven't already.
somtimes you can drive away from a food source that doesn't really show on the surface ie squid.
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mind you if there feeding on whitebait it may pay to try another area.
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Calypso 6, (we heard you guys on the radio) were at the cape monday evening and got sharked big time as well. Lotsa rats but got busted by a decent king on 24Kg and then sharked on another on of about 8-9Kgs. Nice very large radius bite mark. Was it you guys that got the 150Kg bronzy on Saturday (I think, or maybe sunday?) at the Cape?
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It's an excellent bet, especially on the West Coast, that if there's albies, then marlin will be close by.
Why not use an albie as a livebait?
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken
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Nah bob we didnt land any sharks. we hooked one up accidently which had dined on one of our kingies it put on a good show until it tangled around a cray pot. At one stage we had 2 big sharks ripping aprt a 20 kilo king we had hooked, it was impressive but i really wanted to land that fish.
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Only problem with picking a squid coloured lure is - what's a squid coloured lure?
 
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