b"BLUEFIN Holly Downer with a hefty 96kg bluefin caught from Te Ariki Nui with Pelagic Charters.H ooked Uppp!!Legendary game fishing vessel Te The scream that elevatesAriki Nui is a 56ft Salthouse charter the senses from highboat with 5,000L fuel capacity!alert to overload for all game anglers, none more so than the game fish addicted angler who drives 7 hours through the night to launch their boat at 4am in pursuit of arguably the most prized game fish of them all - the bluefin tuna!Our bluefin tuna pursuit has taken us to the Hokitika Trench, Northland Banks and Canyons, Waihau Bay, Gisborne and even Nova Scotia in Canada. Along the way we have tried and tested most fishing styles on them including cubing, berleying, bait fishing with pilchards and hoki, top water, jigging and trolling. The only method we haven't caught a bluefinjourney to working gannets was only 30plucking sardines from the surface. The on is top water but that is clearly justminutes from our berth. Upon gettingexperience was surreal, it was the perfect from missing out on the right place /there we threw a bucket of sardinesdream scenario.I was getting incredible right time opportunity. Top water worksin and then started a steady stream ofGo Pro footage of the whole thing with on all tuna species, it's just a bit trickiersardines. Within a minute a huge shadowthe camera just below the surface. After to implement with bluefin. appeared from the murky green depthsan hour of this activity, a 700lb specimen The thought of bluefin taking topof just 12m, then another and anotherdecided the Go Pro looked like a tasty water takes me back to a heart-breakingand then several at a time! treat and savagely grabbed it and did not experience I had with a Go Pro cameraSizes were 400lb - 600lb initially butlet go. The stick was torn from my hands, and Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Gulfthen the odd 800lb fish and then theand I felt that disbelieving loss you get of Saint Lawrence. It was an absolutegranders turned up.These looked likewhen youve been fighting a trophy fish dream scenario; we had gone outbuses coming out from under the boat! for hours, only to lose it metres from just to find the bluefin that day. TheThey started rolling on their sides andthe boat.20FISHING IN GODZONE SEP/OCT 2022"