Monster Dogtooth

[Adrian Watt]

Hi all,
Thought you might like to see some of these pics.
We have been doing a bit of exploring round the island along the Great Astrolabe Barrier Reef and finding some great dogtooth tuna on the jigs.
This one we took on Saturday and is a pending Fiji All-Tackle National Record. It was the largest of 4 we got that afternoon.

[Nathan Cefai]

Now thats a doggie,well done to the angler  and what a fish,gotta be lucky to turn his head at that size!!

wow 

[Jim Squibb]

Thats one big dogtooth. What rod and reel, and what pound line was it caugt on?

[Andre van Wyk]

Awesome fish and congrats to Bill!

Taken on a Trinidad 40 and a Zenaq rod... I'm completely sure of the model....

Awesome Doggie!

[Robert Palcak]

Nice one Adrian, that's one massive doggie... do you know what it weighed in at?

[Brock Arifovic]

Nice very nice

[Andre van Wyk]

90.6 kilos according to another report and the rod was a Zenaq FS58-18....

Absolutely awesome fish!!! what a horse!

[Nathan Cefai]

Solid as!!

[Adrian Watt]

Hi guys,
Yes, that was an absolute beautie of a doggie.
Andre is quite right, Zenaq rod, Shimano Trinidad spooled with 80lb Power-Pro braid. Wind-on mono to Shimano 325g butterfly jig and the fish weighed in at 90.6Kg.
Pending Fiji All-Tackle record. Line is being tested but as it was not IGFA rated it will probably over-test 80lbs and go into the M-60 line class.
3 other doggies we caught that afternoon we released. General policy is to release unless its a National record. Angler Bill Busch did an awsome job during the 45 minute fight. Early on we just couldn't stop the fish but we got her turned.

[Mick Cunningham]

wow that,s a big doggie .

i can,t wait to hook one up .
as i tryed  couple year ago but no luck .

i remmeber watching a footage from aaron that he filmed  90kg doggie .
with nomad few year ago .

[Brock Arifovic]

Mick,

When & where are you going?

[Mick Cunningham]

Mick,

When & where are you going?

oh brock .

so many trip to choice from and i can,t make one up yet ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!

[Brock Arifovic]

Well what are the choices?

[Sachin Chaudhry]

Epic fish.
Well done to all involved.
Seen quite a few over 50kg come up from that area and prior to this the biggest I had personally see was Darren C's 73.6kg on 50lb also taken jigging.
Will be around there in May and August for some serious jigging.
The GT bite has also been phenomenal and last Sunday was just plain back breaking work with a number over 30kg and 2 bust offs with a dozen or so fish landed.
Pure "died and gone to popper fishing heaven" stuff.
Could do a lot worse than Fiji for fishing right now.
The areas that Adrian Watt covers would be the place to be for those that intend to come this way.

[Brock Arifovic]

Adrian, what business/company name do you run? i might know some people that will be heading your wy next year.