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A 50kg Land-Based Yellowfin in Japan, on 10kg Line, with Hai Nguyen (opens the original)
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A 50kg yellowfin tuna, caught land-based off the rocks in Japan, on 10kg line. Today Hai Nguyen joins us to tell the full story. Years in the planning, a trip to a remote island in Japan, and a yellowfin landed off the rocks on line most people wouldn't dream of using for a fish that size. Hai walks us through all of it. What sparked the trip, how he planned it, and how close it came to going wrong. The leader was nicked at every point and the fish tail-wrapped near the end, hanging on by a thre
Part 2! Pushing Spin Gear to Its Limits on Giant Bluefin, with Alex Simon (opens the original)
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A 106 inch tuna he reckons was over 300 kilos, landed on a leader less than half the strength it should've been. And that's just one of the stories. This is Part 2 with Alex Simon, and it's all stories. If you haven't heard Part 1, go back for how he got into this. This one is the wild stuff. Alex walks us through the fish that put him on the map. A 106 inch giant that came up and ate a floating bunker ten feet from the boat, hooked by his mate DJ on 60 pound leader when it should've been 130. F
Pushing Spin Gear to Its Limits on Giant Bluefin, with Alex Simon (opens the original)
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He started out catching marlin on a hand line in Haiti with the bare minimum. These days he chases giant bluefin on spin gear off the US east coast. We're back with a big one, and it went deep enough that we split it in two. Today Alex Simon joins us from Maryland, a Shimano Pro Staffer who's spent years chasing topwater bluefin on spin gear. I also pulled in my mate Sammy from Tassie, who's chasing the same thing down south, so he could ask the questions I'd never think of. Part 1 is Alex's sto
20+ Monster Kingfish in One Session, and Chasing NZ's Best Spots, with Bryn Hastie (opens the original)
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The story of how me and Bryn became mates on the most insane charter of our lives! Thats how this one starts. Bryn Hastie joins us to relive a charter we did together where the kingfish would not stop, over 20 of them, all quality fish, one of those days you don't forget. From there Bryn walks us through his own fishing back home in New Zealand. Hunting down new spots, chasing big kingfish and snapper, and a couple of stories that go a fair bit deeper, including a swordfish and a bluefin session
EP 41: His 8 Year Old Hooked the Fish That Broke the Internet, with Scott Gorman (opens the original)
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They headed out for a normal day chasing Queenies. His 8 year old son ended up hooking a fish that broke the internet.Full clip on instagram! We're back at it with a ripper. Today Scott Gorman and the story behind one of the wildest clips going around, the one that has climbed past 24 million views and counting. His young bloke Fyn, jigging up big Queenies south of Weipa, hooking into a solid Spanish mackerel around 15 to 18 kilo, and a bull shark climbing all over it right at the boat. The kid
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