Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by stingray

The long wait begins...first snapper hunt of this season ...could be sharky ..might be epic! 430 am ...hurry the fuck up...I know he said 5 but he’ll be here at 430!

Rods are ready , knots are tied and tested . Dog is giving me the stink eye , tucker is sorted ...thermos on the bench .....ohh the long waiiiiit begins. I’m shaved trimmed my nails , checked the weather ...got bait out defrosting slowly in the beer fridge , will get a burley out at midnight so it can pump goodness straight off the bat ..checked weather again ...ahh off to charge head light batteries ....how good a life ...this good a life!

Don't forget your snapper lures.

@stingray? @veitnamcam?

Originally Posted by Shearer

@stingray? @veitnamcam?

I detect a leak....
Im sure Joe will post up a yarn.

Originally Posted by Padox

Yea we hammered a few a few weeks back in the sounds very random when and where and on what hitting them

Yes - they seem to move around a bit
The catch is ussually all over in 15 mins then they must move on
A patient fisher person would stay long enough for a fresh run or same lot moving back
Well thats the pattern I seem to always witnees here in the inner Pelorus

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I detect a leak....
Im sure Joe will post up a yarn.

No leak. Just an expectation.

Originally Posted by Shearer

No leak. Just an expectation.

Ahhhhh now I see the above posts ,

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Originally Posted by Shearer

No leak. Just an expectation.

Well there was the fattest gurnard I have ever seen caught by Joe... And I have caught a lot of gurnard but this one was epic .
Epic dolphin epic dophin experience.
Beach launching and retrieving fails and stuff.
Manana.

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not seeing any pics, so i guess it didnt happen

Due to the time of the tide we launched off the beach at cable bay, there was a bit more swell than is ideal and we dropped the motor onto the hard getting off the trailer
Out into the darkness we dropped long lines and set up with a massive burly trail as the sky lightened and the rain continued.
Good current on the last of the outgoing we were optimistic and Joe set to thinning out the sharks so I could catch a snapper but alas I let the team down and got piss all then all of a sudden Joe caught this donky of a gurnard.
49cm and 2.5pound but the most impressive thing was it was thicker than a can of beer threw the shoulders!



Tide petered out and the wind came up so we picked up lines and released a few sharks and went to tuck up in the lee and catch some cod. On the way we came across a big pod of dolphins, they criused along side us at 15 knts and were jumping way out of the water right next to the boat...it was pretty bloody cool!
Legal cod were surprisingly easily caught to fill our limits of two each and the wind and rain stopped and it got quite pleasant for a bit you could almost see the sun.
We burlyed up again off a point that has produced well in the past for Terrys and Snapper for the incoming push.
Lots of snapper that while legal were a bit on the small side and being from shallow water we released all but one.
We tried shallow we tried deep so we tried in the middle and caught 3 sharks in as many minutes and bugged out as the wind came up again to hide in cable bay and use up the last of the burly.

Swell direction had changed a bit and got bigger and now it was a surf beach literally as two surfers were getting out when we came in.
Getting back on the trailer without either parking the boat in the ute or swamping the boat was gonna be a no go so Joe got out to drive around to Delaware and retrieve boat.
Bloody legend got out way deeper than I thought he was going to and got fully wet.

I drove around the island to Delaware where the bar was a bit interesting but at least the tide was running in.
Cheers Joe allways an adventure.

That trip really highlights the importance of maintaining public accces to Delaware bay for boat launching and retreival as the only safe spot between Nelson and Okiwi bay.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

That trip really highlights the importance of maintaining public accces to Delaware bay for boat launching and retreival as the only safe spot between Nelson and Okiwi bay.

The lack of launching facilities down this way is a bloody discrace imho.

Just come back from up whangaroa.
Tried for Kingis a couple of times but no joy there.
Usually softbait for Snapper but bait and berley was much more productive this time. Had a couple of good sessions with fish up to 6 kg both times.


These were in 3 metres of water over a couple of hours with the incoming tide.
Managed this fulla too on the last night spotlighting on the cousins farm.

Live in Whitianga, pop aprox 5000 resident. Boatramps within easy reach: Main ramp in town. Robinson road. Marina ( annual sub) Brophys beach. Kuaotunu. Matarangi. Beach launch at Ottama/Matapua

Live in Nelson, pop aprox 48000. Main council ramp at marina, or Delaware bay which is under dispute. Cable bay ramp is a joke.

The greenies would prob say that's great as it stops overfishing

Different spot ..better tides great conditions, great company the wait is on ....