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Title: Fishing report New Caledonia
Post by: John Fenton on September 02, 2013, 06:16:38 PM

Over the last couple of weeks, me and my wee brother Matt had some nice catches fishing the south of New Caledonia. We caught several red bass, yellowfin tuna, coral trout, a long tom and some GT's. We fished inside and outside the lagoon. Techniques used were varied from popping, stick baiting and pencil popping. The most successful being the Orion big foot stick baits. The difficult part was the location of the fish seemed to be spread along the reef with not much results casting at the reef corners. All the fish captured were successfully released after a few quick photographs

Title: Re: Fishing report New Caledonia
Post by: John Fenton on September 02, 2013, 06:54:51 PM

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Title: Re: Fishing report New Caledonia
Post by: John Fenton on September 02, 2013, 07:06:12 PM

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Title: Re: Fishing report New Caledonia
Post by: Sam McKechnie on September 04, 2013, 03:31:54 PM

Looks like some great fishing john. What part of the south are you fishing?

Title: Re: Fishing report New Caledonia
Post by: John Fenton on September 04, 2013, 05:32:46 PM

Thanks Sam ;D We fished the coral reefs and bommies in front of Baie du Prony and along the Havannah channel. We also fished outside the barrier reef and seen a 4 meter great white shark cruising by.

Title: Re: Fishing report New Caledonia
Post by: Sam McKechnie on September 04, 2013, 06:34:44 PM

Ah cool, may see you down there some time, am hoping to purchase a boat in the next couple of months and will hopefully head down that way a bit  8).

Title: Re: Fishing report New Caledonia
Post by: Mark Tamim on September 06, 2013, 06:28:14 AM

cool pics... always wanted to go there!