Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

possibly why they have that "other name" shit fish...lol

Yes when my dad was a boy, there were a lot more raw sewerage outlets around the place, these days, not so much of a problem.

I read somewhere that if you want to eat these "vegetarian" fish you shouldn't open the gut cavity. It has a black lining that can apparently taint the flesh.

Originally Posted by Shearer

I read somewhere that if you want to eat these "vegetarian" fish you shouldn't open the gut cavity. It has a black lining that can apparently taint the flesh.

I made the mistake of gutting right away rather than filleting. When you gut the fish, the black line remains. Either way, the texture wasn't too pleasing. A little mushy. Fun to catch, they fight surprisingly hard, but once bitten, twice shy, there are better fish to eat.

Trevally is my favorite pan-fried when fresh yum

[QUOTE=Shearer;1516110. I cheated though and used bait (sea lettuce).[/QUOTE]

Wait on? What? Say it ain’t so!

The lure guru ….used bait? Noooo!!!!

Working the charter boat yesterday over the Kaipara bar..........had some visitors.



Looked like Dad, Mum and bubs (bottom to top) brought junior over to teach him about boats.......They approached the boat 6 times and each time dad stayed between the boat and the other 2 but they got closer to the boat each time......on the 7th time dad was on the outside with bubs between him and mum...on the 8th time bubs was closest to the boat with mum on the outside and dad following bubs right on his tail.

Watching the baby mimic every move the adults were doing was amazing....their synchronicity was perfect.

Here is a close up of mum and bubs......



Only got 6 pics before I hit the reverse pic button on my phone and ended up with a few pics of my own ugly mug, fag hanging out the side of my mouth and an expression of awe on my dial...........

We had it out on moeraki the other week had a pod of prob close to 100 come in to the boat and start playing all round the boat wish I'd had the kids with me that trip got some cool vid of it tho

Octopus on a softbait. Duly barbecued. Better eating than anything with fins.

Another decent trevally from the beach. 2.7kg, 57cm. Would have been stoked if I'd caught it from the boat.

Went out for my opening.

I always fish November onwards.

Saw 12.

Landed 2. Dropped 1. Missed 1.

All in deep pools down deep but with the fast flows and high river levels of late down here it was quite technical with a dry dropper plus trying to get to were ya wanted to .

I could've done a bit better if I'd popped a tungsten double nymph rug on but opted not to as when targeting the side streams I like to see the dries work their magic .

The one I did miss was on a good old Humpy and I missed the take twice. Which I later caught on a good old fashioned copper John.

Fish are in poor condition due either to late spawning or higher than normal flows and levels so all released.

Originally Posted by MB

Another decent trevally from the beach. 2.7kg, 57cm. Would have been stoked if I'd caught it from the boat.

Good effort catching that from the shore on light gear.

Originally Posted by stingray

Wait on? What? Say it ain’t so!

The lure guru ….used bait? Noooo!!!!

Yeah. It's a necessary evil sometimes.

Originally Posted by MB

Rod 2-4kg
Reel 1000
Braid 6lb
Leader 6 - 10lb

Started off as a sort of combined agi and trout setup, then attempted to catch flounder with it. Failed at that, but picked up other species such as parore, kahawai and spotties on lures! Lots of fun. Getting a few trevally now. Big enough to keep. It's hit and miss whether you can land them, but you won't get anywhere near as many bites with heavier gear.

Perfect, sounds very similar to what I've been using- 2-5kg rod, 2000 size reel, 4lb braid, and 6-10lb leader. Caught plenty of kahawai and a couple of searuns with it. Hell of a good time on the light stuff.

Kayak fishing out from Cable Bay, pretty nice bit of coastline.

Tried lures only today and picked up one good carrot from the middle of the bay and a 36cm blue cod from in close when I tucked in out of the wind.

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4 hours in the kayak for one kahawai... must be doing something wrong.

Oh and 3 spikey dogs as I used bait today.. still nice out and starting to get use to this not working caper....

Cheers

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