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Mudfish Marquand
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Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 3:17 pm • # 1 |
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Joined: 11/16/19 Posts: 3
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Just a brief introduction. I fly fish New Zealand's Tauranga Harbour flats for over 300 days a year, mainly for yellowtail kingfish, but from June to September each year it is totally ultra light fishing with #1,#2 and #3 outfits for kahawai (Arripis trutta). These fish are a hard fighting species and are well known for there aerial antics. I have been following this forum for several years and I hope that I can offer another perspective on our exciting sport. Cheers
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RalphieJoeKool
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Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 4:52 pm • # 2 |
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Joined: 11/27/19 Posts: 21 Location: Marana , Az
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strummer
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Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 11:26 pm • # 3 |
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Joined: 06/13/16 Posts: 936 Location: Southwest Florida
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Hello and welcome!
Would love to see pics of your fishery!
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JimRed
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 12:00 am • # 4 |
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Joined: 08/31/15 Posts: 1042 Location: Coppell, TX
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Welcome and looking forward to you post and learning about your fly fishing.
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PampasPete
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 3:44 pm • # 5 |
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Joined: 09/09/14 Posts: 519 Location: southern Brazil
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Mr. Mudfish Marquand, welcome to the forum!
I had to use that google thing to find out about the fish species that you mentioned. It looks like those “Australian salmon” or kahawi would be a blast for UL flyfishing, but the yellowtail kingfish do look like they might be a bit much. Have you got any photos of kahawi fishing to show us?
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Mudfish Marquand
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 9:51 pm • # 6 |
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Many thanks for the welcome. Much appreciated. You are right PampasPete, yellowtail kingfish are too much fish for ULF and the lightest outfit I use to fish for them is a #6. Only fish over 75cm (30inches) are allowed to be taken and in my opinion it would be irresponsible to use #3 and below fly outfits on them. Kahawai on the other hand are perfect fish for the ULF challenge. I have some good photos for posting, however I am technology challenged and as such, I will have to get assistance in order to do this. I look forward to sharing information and photos with you as soon as possible. Cheers
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