Big tank needed

**Nicky** · 16th Jan 2007, 17:09

Anyone wants to keep this in his tank

Caught this 26kg dogtooth tuna in Maldives on Jan-10.

The fellow died lah.. when landing the fish the crew gaffed the gill plate instead of the mouth.
Gave the fish to the villagers. They were 'happy like bird'..

**benetay** · 16th Jan 2007, 19:02

wah solid fish! Saltiga? jigging? excellent place to do popping and jigging. Seems like Maldives has recovered from the tsunami.

Great fish!

**BFG** · 16th Jan 2007, 22:19

Nicky, how hard was it to land this fish? Give an indicative number from 1-10 with 1 being very easy to 10 being very tough. I've never fish before so would like to know.

**Nicky** · 17th Jan 2007, 09:02

Using Shimano twinpower 8000PG. We were targeting (jigging) smaller species of dogtooth as a few pieces less than 10kg were landed before this so we did not use the Stella/Saltiga. The first run was nerve-wrecking, taking off 120m of lines. I know because I was using PE lines that has different color for every 10m. Then the next run was like 70m and the last run was slightly more than 30m and it is game over for this dogtooth. I will rate this fight as 7/10 on this set of relatively light gear.

Don't think fishing in Maldives has recovered from Tsunami. And despite monsoon scheduled to be over in Nov, we still have 4 days of rain out of 7.

Show you another picture. This time a 15kg red coral trout, also on jig. Took the jig at about 50m off the seabed. At first we thought it was a dogtooth because the runs were similar. The fish apparently cut itself probably when it was diving for cover amongst the coral. The air-bladder came out because it was hauled from about 120m of water at quite a high speed. We treated the air bladder problem but the fish was too exhausted liao. So it ended up in our tummy over the next 2 days