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Mixed bag, Wahoo, Dorado, spanish mackerel, and a tiny tuna

Look who came to say hello. 4-5 nice sized cobia about 1 meter each swimming with him, one had a jig in his mouth with the tag end tangled with the shark. jumped in and freed the shark, tried to hand wrastle the cobia but he had none of it and went berserk and took off.

The yellowfin tuna have reached max size in my area. They don't get much above 8kg. Excellent for sushi nonetheless.

12kg mulloway by the boy.

South China Sea. Around this time of year the Dorado and Yellowfin schools move north from the spratlys.

They are one of my favorite fish to eat. Awesome fighters, quick growing, and one of the best looking fish as well in the sea. If you are putting bars of gold on the deck you are having a good day.

Bull dorado, by far the biggest ive seen in these waters.

South China Sea. The whole tuna is a small yellowfin. We ran out of cooler space and had to take the heads of kawa kawa (which we used for chum) to fit everything.

Bigfin Reef Squid (Aori Ika) from the rocks

The quota has been filled for the year, so all fish above 73 inches need to be released. If you land it quickly and swim the fish for long enough it can recover and swim away. Those markings are from the leader rubbing against the fish. We swam it for 20 minutes and it powered away just fine.

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Bluefin Tuna - 213cm, 150-170KG. Fight took 40 minutes, catch and release.

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The deckhand affixes pins to make it easier to move fish around, and provide an anchor point for the colored bands (to keep track of whose fish it is)

Damn fine day Salmon fishing. limited out, biggest fish were 8.5kg and 8.9kg.

love the colors on these guys.

narrow bar spanish mackerels about. a bit small now, but in a month these will be huge.

Landed a decent AJ on speed jig. very slow day so happy to get this fish.

Its called a Coral Trout, but its in the grouper family. Found in tropical to subtropical waters in the south pacific.

Catches from a recent trip to Okinawa

quite a nice pompano, 4KG. roasted the collar and steamed the head straight after.

yellowfin tuna starting to arrive. 4kg off a speed jig. they are small and lean, but nice to see the first ones come north. Big PB russell snapper too on live bait.

Nice trout from lake taupo NZ, cooked 15 minutes after catching.

Here is a 1KG Black Bream caught under a bridge last week

I live in Asia. We say it as [Breem]. Its a marine fish, we call members of the sparidae family breams. Even more confusing, in australia/NZ they have a well known fish "snapper" (pagrus auratus) which is actually a member of the bream family.

Son caught a nice bream, we baked it in foil with lemon and herbs.

egi season in full swing time for calamari!

some early november trout fishing on lake michigan, even landed a rat chinook. Charcoal grilled lake trout over cedar planks.

Slow jigging for amberjacks. Largest was my PB at 14kg. caught with ocea jigger 2000, PE 2, 40# fluoro leader, seafloor control gawky 220 & shout strobe 250 mostly.

If i intend to eat as sushi I catch fresh within a couple of days. Flash freezing requires commercial freezers that go to -70 or -80c. I bleed the fish for 10 minutes, then remove the guts and pack the fish in ice until i get home. I find if I freeze the fish even for 1 day with my home...

final trip of 2018 - packs of GT roaming around smashing jigs, a giant school of mangrove red snappers, and yellowfin tuna. what a way to close out the season!

Gunned it 70 miles offshore to prospect a spot we hadn't tried in a long while. To our surprise we boated 2 very decent pompano which is unusual for that water. Also caught amberjack, rainbow runner, queenfish (my first), tons of kawa kawa and barracuda.

Mangrove Red snapper (lutjanus argentimaculatus) processing yellowfin tuna enjoying the fruits of the trip

Went out for night jigging for tuna and amberjack, and this big ole bruiser crushed my knife jig. 25+ kg Giant Trevally, 20 minute fight. A quick photo and released him. Caught on ocea jigger quick jerk 5'10 and a stella 8k.

some late night early morning jigging