How to Catch a Bluefin Tuna | Taught by Extreme FishingNZ (Gear, Lures, Setup, Tips) Waihau

Extreme FishingNZ Injun Park took Moe, Kaz, and myself on a two day trip to Waihau Bay to teach us the full process of how he catches Southern Bluefin Tuna - What lures he uses, outrigger setups, secret tips, food preperation, how to perserve the catch - this video documents this trip from start to finish.

This part is an excerpt from Injun's NZ Fishing News Article
We headed down in the evening and drove through the night. Bright and early the next morning, we set up the gear with all the same equipment as the previous week and began marking lots of bait on the Simrad Sounder. As we were mowing the lawn, the boats around us were continually hooking up. We would go past, then next minute the boat nearby would have a four-way hook up. We even heard on the radio that a boat had hooked up and was on a three- and a half-hour fight, which was still going (the fish is a pending world record at 179kg). It was actually a rather frustrating day but there are always days like this and it’s all part of fishing. We decided to call it and get a good rest before heading out the following day.

Day two arrived, and bright and early we headed to the same spot as we knew that the SBT were there. People were hooking up all around us again, so we decided to work ourselves up to a deeper area of Sea Valley. We were fishing at about the 1450m mark when we heard our Daiwa Saltiga LD60 start to scream. We were thrilled and once this reel had started, we saw another SBT jumping out of the water after hitting our second lure. This second fish dropped but our line was tight on the first. It was Glenn’s time to shine. We harnessed him up and he was away fighting his first SBT. After about 30 minutes of fighting the fish, we had the leader.

Keywords: Southern Bluefin Tuna, Northern Bluefin Tuna, Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Tuna Fishing, Game Fishing