Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

I figured it was going to be a good day when my 5yr old son strolls into our room this morning at 4.50 all dressed in his fishing gear and says "Im ready to go dad".

If you asked my misses if that was a great start to the day you would get a completely different answer

Woke the older lad for a quick brekky and we were off.

Out the channel just on daybreak. Conditions looked good with a slight breeze from the west



Deployed the longline. Anchored and burlyed up. It was instantly obvious that the current was good so i mentioned to the boys that we should be on for a fish.

I didn't expect the triple strike that followed tho, all three rods with flasher rigs got strongly hit simultaneously. Only the bait runner out the back remained idle.

It was pure kaos for a bit. The young fella kept saying "help me dad, help me dad" as line whipped off his reel. "Na bro I'm too busy its everyone for themselves"

Fortunately i got mine up first and self netted it. Then I and was able to lend a hand netting the boys fish. The youngfellas was the biggest a new PB snap for him - 10pound !



After that a couple of gurnard were caught before we lost the current and things went dead. When i brought up a red cod i decided that was the indicator that it was time to grab the longline.

Surprisingly no snaps on that but two more nice gurnard so happy to have those. We had just hit open throttle to head home in the now flat calm sea when the boys spot a workup in the distance.

The misses had said she was keen on some kahawai to make oka so while i buggered about snaring a few of them with my little casting rod i told the boys to drop a bait as there might be a few snaps about.

Bugger me if the oldest lad didn't hook another beauty. Ended up with 4 snaps at 11,10,10 & 7 Pd



Rest of the bin wasn't too bad either



Got home nice and early but it was a steady effort at the processing bench filleting, vacuum packing and smoking frames...



One thing of interest today was instead of the snappers stomachs being full of crabs they were all packed full of these which looked liked some sort of horse muscle?



All in all a bloody fun day









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