Offshore Fishing - Episode 14 - Tk and the boys run across some large squid eating their giant Tuna 

Thanks! Will do!

Cheers mate!

Cheers mate

If it was such a "lovely boat", then why did he have to fit stabilizers ?

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Thanks mate, appreciate it. Just changing to a new vessel and fishery in Darwin so regular episodes will start again shortly.

No problem 👍

Cheers mate

Thanks mate!

Cheers mate 👍

Cheers mate

😂 yes, the joys of having green crew

Cheers mate, my son Cam is the video wizard

😆 and another weird fact,apparently when we flush the toilet in the Southern Hemisphere it spirals in the opposite direction to the northern Hemisphere 😅

Cheers mate, are you doing the Bigeye over the seamounts? I heard about a fishery you guys have with a limit on the amount of hooks you can shoot

No i just do the yellow more inshore

For sure mate, green crew so still dialling them in but they are doing well and learning quickly. Yeah we have a lack of room around the tuna door which makes it hard to look after the fish

Cheers mate, great to have you following 👍

Hi Chris, it depends on the target species and where in the water column you want your gear to hang.

Hey mate, The boys get keen to jump in but there are too many sharks out there for the boys to actually get in there haha

Hi mate, thanks for the follow, the squid are a very infrequent catch. There is a squid jigging fishery in the Southern area's of Australia but its mainly for the fresh fish local market

Thanks mate, hard to estimate the size of the squid, we get the giant squid plus the Humboldt type fish. We have picked up quite a few Diamond Back Squid which are veracious feeders at around 1.5 meters in length.

Yes more often than not we can still recover loins from a fish that's been predated on by squid or sharks.

Very green

@@tkoffshorefishing lol They'll be ok with your guidance mate.... Bit of energy pushed up em They'll be mint

YEH HEY i always wondered Why Pizza shops leave their neon lights on at lunch time??.

We normally let the gear soak through a dawn or dusk so the get plenty of dark time and the gear can be hanging down anything up to 300 meters depending on the hook spacings between floats

They rise overnight to feed usually mate

Stored in sea water/slush mate

Roger that Skipper, all the best from the West Coast Canada (Vancouver)@@tkoffshorefishing

I have tried a few extra large jigs with pillies wrapped to them but no joy yet.

@@tkoffshorefishing I had a friend that I watched catching Albacore Tuna and another kind, in Hawaii, and he had a lot of trouble with sharks biting chunks out or just stealing his Tuna. Many of these weighed up to about 80 lbs. and at 3 dollars a lb., it was quite a loss. I suggested that he might want to build an electric deterrent like they use for surfboards, but he wasn't interested. They have a limited range and could be made to activate a few feet above the bait when the fish tugs on the bait. A lighter leader could be used beyond the device, so you'd be less apt to lose the thing.

@jameswest4819 we don't loose a lot to predation so it's not too bad

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Yes we run the wire down the spine for premium quality, we set and retrieve our gear in the same 24 hour period and have achieved Marine Stewardship Council certification as a sustainable fishery and fish under strict quota's set by the government. We have minimal bycatch and have 4 compliance cameras operating to ensure compliance.

We eat it onboard

Thank you ❤

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Cheers mate

The majority are Diamond Back Squid

@@tkoffshorefishing How big are those Diamond Back Squid? It's crazy that they can destroy a YFT like that.

Lol,I'm heading you, yes I miss the tight core of veteran fisher's I had on the last boat for sure.

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no no no .....The giant squid caught the tuna and then attached the fish to the hook .....just to let the pirates know that" Squid" are the merchants of the Sea.

Yes

Hi mate, they are for attracting the fish. We use both battery powered and chemical lightsticks

@@tkoffshorefishing Thanks heaps for taking the time out to answer my girls questions mate, much appreciated.

Yes we use circle tuna hooks

Sure is out there, we get to see some incredible things

Scary stuff mate with the jellyfish up north

I hear them on the VHF radio which has limited coverage when fishing close to the EEZ boundary so they are camped right on the line. Have seen them inside the line a few times when fishing at home in New Zealand

Yes they are incredibly aggressive, certainly wouldn't want to be in the water with them

Cheers mate, much appreciated

I am a captain? And can speak arguably on this footage

There's only one species that strip's the fish down to the spine and that's big squid. You can clearly see the tentacles scars. We have seen this many times including hauling fish up with the squid still hanging off the fish.

They dont need any help

Not at the moment but keep in touch

We haul and retrieve our gear in the same day as does every other fisherman in Australia and New Zealand. We want our fish alive when we haul the gear so it would be pointless to leave the gear in too long.