Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Pengy

cant like that Cam. If you cant raise a beer, it is serious shit

Yea pretty crap, just a pulled muscle or pinched nerve thing....I worked threw it fri and woke up sat imobiliised!
Coming right again now tho

Out today with my daughter.....she actually asked to come which was a huge and welcome surprise.
She was so nice without a little brother to pick on and wind up.



A little breeze and chop to start,water green and murky and no bites for the first 20-30 min I was starting to think it may be a dud trip but then the burly started working and we were very busy catching gurnard and Terakihi and a couple of unlucky legal blue cod.

A couple of hours fishing and we had plenty so went sight seeing and came in on the high.






Solid haul of gurnard acquired we gave 4 to some guy surfcasting with his young kids, four to a neighbour,3 to another which only left me with 12 or so to fillet ��

Out again today with the daughter and a renta kid.
I am the best eel fisherman I know.


Sorted that out and went to go to yesterday's spot but another boat had just pulled in there.
Fishing was a bit slower than yesterday and with two kids to look after I didn't get much fishing in.
That said we come in with a few feeds worth.

What's the setup for Gurnard that you guys are using?

I've caught a couple, but wasn't targeting them and now I think I'd like to....

Originally Posted by Beaker

What's the setup for Gurnard that you guys are using?

I've caught a couple, but wasn't targeting them and now I think I'd like to....

Bait is the key mate, not so much the rig. Can get them on flashers or stray lines.

They don't like squid.

Go for trevelly, mac, cut pilcher etc

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Originally Posted by Beaker

What's the setup for Gurnard that you guys are using?

I've caught a couple, but wasn't targeting them and now I think I'd like to....

Originally Posted by kukuwai

Bait is the key mate, not so much the rig. Can get them on flashers or stray lines.

They don't like squid.

Go for trevelly, mac, cut pilcher etc

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Yep as Kukuwai said,oily baits like salted blue mackerel (my favourite ) pilchards cut small, salted trevally,salted mullet etc.
Absolute suckers for burly (pilchard or salmon rather than kina).
They feed mainly on the bottom on crabs and marine worms but will come up to the top hook of a generic black majic or bursco flasher rig.
They will also reddilly take small jigs like sliders,very small bottomships etc either worked along the bottom on the drift or in the rod holder at ankor in the burly trail.

Locally I look for banks and the boundry between sand/mud or sand/rock or just that change in bottom type.
I look for these spots as that is were I hopefully avoid the plagues of undersized blue cod that you get all along our inner tasman and golden bays if you fish near a rocky shoreline and am hopefully shallow enough to avoid the plauges of spikey dogs that are in all the deeper water of the inner bay.
Mostly it works in winter here they are shallow, a couple of my best days on gurnard were only in 3m but normally im between 5 and 15m to try and avoid the sharks and cod.
Burly a meter or so off the bottom or a bit more if little current. If no current do something else till there is some or move to where there is some.

Pm VC the man , knows who to dig up carrots

Nothing wrong with a few burnouts you old grumpy pricks

Nice fish guys. We got a goid feed or terakihi and snapper on Sunday. Havnt had a king for a month or so

Originally Posted by Gibo

Nothing wrong with a few burnouts you old grumpy pricks

Nothing wrong with being an old prick and grumpy you young whipper snapper. I will be hard out training for the grumpalympics when I get old enough.

Classic Northland winter fishing. Bite is hot! Caught bag limit in under an hour. Nothing big, but good eaters.

Tinny Punt will be up for sale soon.... Ideal white baiters boat flick me a pm if interested.

Well today was the last day I could legally set a net for Flounder.....end of an era and a end for many of being able to gather their own fresh tax free seafood.

I took the "Tinny Punt" to work this morning and the dog gave me the dirtyest look as I left her behind,she bloody loves the dingy and the mudflflats for a race.

Got the net out on my lunch break.



Had really hoped go out with a bang but instead I think one of my ankors didnt hold as bouys were right together and I got nothing not even a shit fish.
Still no Dolphin .
Invited a mate out for pickup

No fish at all caught.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Had really hoped go out with a bang but instead I think one of my ankors didnt hold as bouys were right together and I got nothing not even a shit fish.
Still no Dolphin .
Invited a mate out for pickup

No fish at all caught.

It almost felt like the last hoorah, heading out with Cam tonight to haul in the net for the last time. Eager anticipation that the last haul would be a goodie, but alas, only some scraggly bits of weed. An eerie quiet as we quietly motored back to the boat ramp under a darkened cloudy sky. Cheers Cam.

Bit of a stink one not getting any flappers. Are you going to give longlining a go ? maybe try baiting with small crab or crab lures.

I'm pretty sure we don't have to stop netting until Oct 1st.

I can't work out how to post the MPI fact sheet here so I've emailed it to you VC.

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