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Game Fishing New Zealand. American writer Zane Grey famously described New Zealand as the “Angler’s El Dorado” after fishing here in 1926. Chasing Northland’s billfish is regarded as the pinnacle of sport fishing the world over. The rich waters of New Zealand’s far north have a hypnotic effect on those who would seek the site of jumping fully lit marlin. The names of the legendary New Zealand charter boat skipper Captain Snooks Fuller and his vessel Lady Doreen will live on forever. The quarry is the striped, black and blue marlin, along with broadbill swordfish, tuna, kingfish and sharks.  

Heath Fairweather's striped marlin was caught, tagged, and released near the Three King's. It was estimated to weigh 125kg.
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  • Northland
    • Three Kings Marlin, Yellowfin Tuna, Middlesex Bank

    Three Kings Islands Marlin Fishing, Northland, NZ By Andrew Padlie It had just come into.

    21/07/2021
    This yellowtail all but inhaled the blue and silver Rapala CD 18 plug.
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  • New Zealand Sea Fishes
    • Yellowtail – King of Broken Water – Milford Sound, Fiordland

    Yellowtail – King of Broken Water by Dick Marquand The yellowtail kingfish, or kingi as.

    29/05/2021
    Displaying the skills of a surgeon, Skipper David Auld rigs a kahawai "skip bait.
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    • Marlin Hunting – The Quest for a Beakie – Game Fishing NZ

    Marlin Hunting – The Quest for a Beakie By Dick Marquand I read with great.

    02/03/2021
    All marlin are tagged at the boat, including those that are kept in case they throw the hook at the boat.
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  • Northland
    • West Coast Striped Marlin Fishing out of Kaipara Harbour, Northland

    We Boated Past the Graveyard of over 125 Shipwrecks By Warwick Judkins You wanna catch.

    04/01/2021
    A line up of southern bluefin tuna from the 1978 Nationals. From left are Tom Beange, Roy Moss, Darcy Hagitt, Brent Vincent, Dick Marquant and the late Dave Lamming.Fiordland Game Fishing Club
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  • Southland-Fiordland
    • Fiordland Game Fishing Club Operated Between 1972 and 1994 – The End Of An Era

    By Dick Marquand On 24 August 1994, I chaired a meeting in Queenstown which wound.

    04/01/2021
    Doug Payton (right) with his 60th birthday 105 kg striped marlin caught near Astrolabe Reef.
  • Bay of Plenty
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    • Marlin – Mt Maunganui – Astrolabe Reef – Happy 60th Birthday

    Marlin – Mt Maunganui – Astrolabe Reef – Happy 60th Birthday by Andrew Padlie What.

    04/11/2020
    Neil Bond and Keith Chin with the striped marlin.
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  • Wellington-Taranaki
    • Striped Marlin Off the Coast of Taranaki – Aboard Swansong – Keith Chin

    Striped Marlin off the Coast of Taranaki by Keith Chin – Cooking Your Catch in.

    04/11/2020
    The author with his skipjack stealing stripped marlin.
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  • Northland
    • Marlin – To Catch a Marlin is a Big Deal in the Game of Fishing – Houhora

    Marlin Fishing is a Big Deal – Lasso Your Marlin by Andrew Padlie Please note that.

    04/11/2020
    Threasher shark
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  • New Zealand Sea Fishes
  • Sharks
    • Thresher Shark – Alopias vulpinus – easily recognized from its very long tail

    Thresher Shark – Updated by Allan Burgess and Dick Marquand The thresher shark is easily.

    15/09/2021
    This fish was Neville Neal's biggest marlin caught that summer. A striped marlin weighing 137 kg. All photographs Courtesy of Denis Moresby.
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  • Waikato
    • Marlin Fishing – Trailer Boat Marlin Fishing – Raglan Harbour South

    West Coast Marlin with DJ Moresby The coast to the west of Te Kuiti is.

    12/04/2021