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Herby
01-26-2009, 10:59 PM
One of the young divers here in NZ got a 213kg Blue in the weekend.
Story goes , it was glassy calm and they were trolling lures and entered in a fishing comp, it was his turn on the chair but they spotted a tailer so he jumped in in boardshorts and smashed it in the guts with a 3 rubber riffe attached to a 35L RA hippo via a RA bluewater bungee. Over the next 2.5 hours he shot it 3 more times and said it got quite fired up and went beserk, it was lashing at him with its bill on occasion then it eventually died, as blues do.
NZ record.
kjflyfish
01-26-2009, 11:41 PM
Tin a$$. :D
Herby
01-26-2009, 11:44 PM
He brought his guns into the shop today to be restrung so I checked out his photos. Impressive to say the least.
kjflyfish
01-26-2009, 11:47 PM
Why didn't you scan them?!!
Herby
01-26-2009, 11:56 PM
They were on his fancy James Bond phone. My photo browsing kept on being interrupted by reporters calling him up.
Herby
01-28-2009, 12:06 AM
Pics and whatnot here:
http://www.fishing.net.nz/asp_forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37258
BlackTeam
01-28-2009, 04:16 AM
niiiiicceee
Mobile Diver
01-28-2009, 06:50 AM
WOW!!!!:thumps::eek:
Goingdeep
06-28-2009, 11:48 PM
Holy Mackerel haha in board shorts awesome!!!!
Paul de Clercq
09-23-2009, 02:46 PM
Hat's off for landing it with that shot.
PrincessSlaya!
09-23-2009, 03:01 PM
Geeezzzzzzz..... Unbelievable! those pics are amzing!
Don Paul
09-23-2009, 03:05 PM
One of the young divers here in NZ got a 213kg Blue in the weekend.
Story goes , it was glassy calm and they were trolling lures and entered in a fishing comp, it was his turn on the chair but they spotted a tailer so he jumped in in boardshorts and smashed it in the guts with a 3 rubber riffe attached to a 35L RA hippo via a RA bluewater bungee. Over the next 2.5 hours he shot it 3 more times and said it got quite fired up and went beserk, it was lashing at him with its bill on occasion then it eventually died, as blues do.
NZ record.

Thanks for the post Herby, great fish, are you guys near Bay of Islands?
Cheers, Don
Herby
09-24-2009, 02:22 AM
Nope, I'm in Auckland- 2.5hrs away from the Bay. I get up there maybe 2-3 times a year.
TPereira
09-27-2009, 03:12 PM
Thats a nice fish.
Don Paul
09-29-2009, 08:21 PM
Nope, I'm in Auckland- 2.5hrs away from the Bay. I get up there maybe 2-3 times a year.

Thanks Kiwi, I was at the Marlin Club @ BOI and the fisherman treated this
spero like a true guest, and Lake Taupo is a fly fishers dream. New Zealand is
the best place I've ever been.:thumps:
Cheers, Don Paul