20 Hour Bluefin Tuna Fight: Fishing Tackle to Catch Massive Bluefin Tuna

Jordan Chenoweth of NSW sure has one good fish tale to tell. The 15-year-old angler set out on 13 April to fish off of Tasman Peninsula as part of a fishing party of five men and two girls. Right before noon, somewhere in Munroe Bight, she hooked a 350-pound Bluefin. Bruised, blistered, and sea sick, she fought with the marine giant until more experienced angler Kelly “Hooch” Hunt of Forth took over the rod four hours later. Kelly Hunt manned the rod until midnight, at which time she was replaced by Swansea fisherman Ashley Hallam. Kelly handled the rod again at 6:00 a.m. and eventually managed...

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Building Your Own Fishing Tackle: Should You Use Bait or Lures?

Food seems to be the fastest way to a fish’s mouth. You can use real food (bait) or something that looks like it (lures) to reel in the big one. Whilst both are effective in their own way, some anglers prefer one over the other. Yet Graham Fifield of Flick and Fly Journal does not know for sure which of the two makes for better bait. Fifield has often found success with lures, but he also points out that bait can be effective in murky waters. As an added bonus, the scent of the bait will make most fish bite, regardless of almost-zero visibility underwater. The choice to use either bait or lure...

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Going After Dhufish? Here are some great fish facts and fishing tackle hints.

Around Western Australia’s southern coast is a fish that’s highly sought by anglers, and not often the easiest to track down and catch. The WA dhufish is an impressive prize fish that can be found at the wide expanse from Shark Bay all the way down as far as Esperance in the Great Australian Bight. The WA Dhufish goes by many names, but is simply known as the “dhuie”. They are a bottom dwelling species that occurs in small schools or individually around rocky reefs, ledges, dropoffs and caves at depths between a few metres to over 200 metres and can grow in excess of 1.2 metres and 25 kg. At these...

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