Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Me and a mate went out of Delaware this morning before sun up out to 38 meters and got a 15 pounder and a hand full of carrots have been having quiet abit of success at this depth all this week just on daybreak

Decided I wanted fresh fish for dinner so loaded up the kontiki last night for an early start this morning. Did one set over change of light and got this lot.



More than enough so job done and home by 9.00am. Large one was 13lb.

Nice one Got Ya. Love your coloured fish arrangement too

Okiwi, out to 40 meters, gurnard only , flood ran out before snaps came on the chew, motor worries so called a day rather than fish out going.

Biggest carrot I’ve ever seen went 51 cm, mate went to pass fished it midday blazing sun, kingi on the chew, boated 6 kept one, no sign of any sharks.

Motor sorted thankfully , for getting home and being a simple fix.

Out from stevens bay this morning to 35m behind adele island. Got a bit distracted when we saw the pod of orca (photos in the here and now thread)

Beautiful blue water, 18.5deg so towed around 5 tuna lures for a while even though we think it is still a bit early.



Released a couple of undersized kingies, but no tuna. Pretty sure it won't be long before someone hits some.

Did a bit of drift fishing for one snap and a couple of nice sized cod. Scooped up the long line for 6 more snaps.



All in all a awesome day on the water making memories

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16-17 degrees off Hoki and I got tubes. Must be different behaviour in the bay compared to off here?

Originally Posted by gimp

16-17 degrees off Hoki and I got tubes. Must be different behaviour in the bay compared to off here?

I believe they come up the coast and roll into the bay so if your getting them hopefully it won't be long before some show up here

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I'd heard they come down the coast - they show up in Westport then Grey then here

All a mystery to me

Originally Posted by gimp

I'd heard they come down the coast - they show up in Westport then Grey then here

All a mystery to me

I'm no expert either, but i love catching them

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Great fun. A different fight to a kingi or a KY.

All I know, is blue water and 18 degrees.... knock em and bleed em straight away ...chuck them in a salt ice slurry more ice the better. They run hot and spoil fast ..dark lures ,blue , black worked down off greymouth for us. Almost bird like beak so long sharp hooks

Finally today I thought the back was good enough to go fishing. Punishing being laid up in the best spell of weather in ages.
Out of Delaware on the incoming so not on the water till 830ish with a workmate, blue water right into the coast....could see bottom clearly from boat in 8m water!
Out to where I would usually fish this time of year and sharked out.....50 50 go deeper or fish the coast.
Went with fish the coast as for once I had chucked the 223 in and workmate was pretty keen on some meat for biltong.
Goats were plentiful and reasonably tame along this bit of coast but with a certain local utuber giving them a curry up of late they have got rather shy.
Blue cod were surprisingly plentiful in decent legal size.....moved out to get away from them and got pannies and more cod all the while whatching a small mob of goats that were annoyingly about 500m away from public land.
Got a couple of feeds and cruised up the coast, marked some rocks and come in on the high.....had to wait a bit to get trailer in.
There's a guy with the cowling off winding and winding and winding his motor over without a single fire....couple of mins of that and I couldn't help myself and I had to yell out" stop fucking winding it or you will burn out your starter motor!!!"

Got on the trailer and went and give him a hand...pulled plugs full throttle and wound over while it pumped fuel out, dried fuel and oil off plugs on my t shirt and checked for spark...all good, refitted and full throttle start lots of smoke then all good.
Stop restart all good. "Have you at least got some spare plugs" I asked as he was about to leave to go fishing �� " no but I dont think I will go far now"...
Hopefully he at least learned how to start his outboard.......for a shitty old boat and an old motor it had a bloody amazingly good battery!



Fish n chips on the bbq.

Your a GC VC ..okiwi next weekend spare beds

Good on ya VC I've said it before but ill say it again.."there are muppets everywhere"

Shame about the 'youtuber' and the goats (news to me) but in my opinion youtube is right up there with 1080 and thermals... buggering a few spots around here that's for sure !!!!

Hope your back is 100% soon mate all the best ah !!


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Today was probably the best day to get the yak out this year. Unfortunately work wasn't playing ball. I could be persuaded to move somewhere with less of the blowy stuff, not sure the boss would be so easy to convince.