Does anyone knows any good spots to catch a few catfish around Turangi ?
Will go up next month and hoping to have at least an afternoon to try to catch a few big ones for the BBQ. :)
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Does anyone knows any good spots to catch a few catfish around Turangi ?
Will go up next month and hoping to have at least an afternoon to try to catch a few big ones for the BBQ. :)
I thought it was around the first bays up from Turangi heading to Taupo. They have organised hunts, I think spearing them every now and then. Is there an underwater club in Taupo? They'd know
For real we have catfish?
Dont you stick your arm in their hole and when they swallow your arm grab on and pull them out?
Pull them inside out and they're ready for the hot plate! Got invited to shoot Koi Carp this summer the other day, another introduced species to good old NZ
Oh..... somewhat of a let down :oh noes:
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This one is from my neck of the woods.
113 kg and 230 cm
They've got me in the sewers down there.
I don't know if they eat the ones out of Taupo either?
Pulled up a small one jigging around Kuratau. Pretty sure DoC? organises the annual hunt on the eastern shores.
MILF= Man I Love Fishing:D
I've caught a few, fun horrid things, southern end of the lake .
@kiwijames
Pretty sure the MINFWYOAE live out at Flaxmere .............. a few in Tamatea as well ;)
Cheers
Pete
You guys dont want catfish of size in our waterways. Unless you dont care if you have f all mudfish.... I mean trout
Koi Carp and Catfish! We have one in Lake Taupo just hope we never get the other, so lucky we have dams on the Waikato!:O_O:
Call into Doc Turangi and have a talk to them they are more than happy for you to fish for cat fish but just ask about fishing without a license etc. We caught them at Motuoapa fishing from the wharf to the left of the marina. Best bait was cheese. Hope this helps.
They are bloody awful things. I can't really understand why you'd want to catch them, but still Southern bays are your best bet.
I've only speared them though, dunno how you'd catch them with a line.
After the annual catfish cull spearing comp they're tipped in a big hole in the ground.
When you going after Koi? I've have a loose invite to shoot some, I could follow up but won't be till summer, I have seen them in the Arapuni dam, when water skiing, river below Karapiro as well, my daughter caught one fishing with cheese as a bait in the river at Saint Andrews by the golf course, Hamilton North.
They are in the Kaituna too Maca
when I was commercial diving on the Hydro's , one of my jobs was to swim the log boom in front of the dam. Saw heaps of the fuckers as well as other denizens of the deep. Big swim
tall tale. It's funny but a lot of my work was also done at 2am, power shut down or wateva. any way you could guarantee that some wag would pipe up just as you are about to enter and would say. did you hear about the eel the henry lost last nite, used his tow rope attached to the car. he had to cut the rope or else he was going to lose his car be cause he wasn't insured. Yeah right. but when it's pitch black and the snakes are moving around you, yup the mind can be tested
And yes they can be fuckin aggressive, The worst part and it seems to be their way , they come from behind you and focus on your blind side. Don't miss them or their bloody Congo cousins on the outfalls. Diving can be a very mentally and physically challenging job at times.