me again just wanted to add that during troling lures i have personaly caught one shark a mako of 20kg had several lures bitten off(when you troll you only use nylon traces)and also ive caught mahimahi too anything that eats squid and live fish and is able to keep up with the boat will have a go at them but the good thing is you can release them.and ive caught not landed a striped marlin of about 100-120kg before it snapped the hook in half and took off also on the longline we foul hooked a leatherjacket turtle(aboustley awe inspiring creature it was about 250kg huge you have to see one thankfully it was still live we got it close to the boat as it was hooked in the one of the front fins we were able to retreive the hook and promptly set it free back to its home). one of the things that bothers me is that huge amounts of marlin are being wasted in nz yes it is one of the bycatches and also illegal to land on a comerical boat on the west coast once we had a mof observer on our boat and he was saddned as we were to by how many dead marlin we had to push back over the side(what a waste)just to please the sport fishing community in nz that was all over the govt trying to get and keep the vote(shame on the govt,shame on the sport fishing board in nz for letting good food go to waste)after about the 10th one it was too much so we carved up the next one right in front of him to give away when we got back to shore and he even took some home!.and how big is the leagle size for skipjack and albacore any way? ive never had to throw any back maybees the ones in nz eat steroids?