Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

PB trev today. 55cm.

12 snaps, 3 trevs and 1 carrot. A few hours out in Golden bay and all caught on the same lure.

Good one Shearer. Love a good trev. Those little microjigs are dynamite. I like orange/lumo colours, can't tell from the photo if there is lumo on your jig, but whatever you are doing is working! Also messing around with tiny tungsten jigs, can get you a fish when times are hard. Didn't think fish took lures in your part of the world!

Originally Posted by MB

Good one Shearer. Love a good trev. Those little microjigs are dynamite. I like orange/lumo colours, can't tell from the photo if there is lumo on your jig, but whatever you are doing is working! Also messing around with tiny tungsten jigs, can get you a fish when times are hard. Didn't think fish took lures in your part of the world!

According to some they don't
Just having some trevally raw now. Very good. A friend and his wife were fishing soft baits near by and got 19 good snapper but no other species.

The tide of change …

Down to okiwi for a quick overnighter , wind was puffing and the sea was a mess when I stopped at the top of the hill for a look about, got to the batch unpacked and enjoyed the quiet!

Checked the weather forecast which promised slight seas and light winds …Roktoy and family arrived after tea and we cracked a couple of beers and yarned the evening away!

Woke up at 2 am to rain and wind had a pee , then woke up to my alarm at toooo early o’clock …hit the snooze button and caught a handful more Z’s

Up and away out into a fine clear morning with no wind but a niggly swell still rolling in, headed out to the northern passage and poked our nose outside of the islands to find a very messy sea running!

Pulled the pin on heading down the coast and headed up Squally cove to sheltered water …dropped a hook line in the middle of the bay and then anchored off a mussel raft and set a burley soaking …rigged up Young Aaron, and then tried to get a strayline rig organised …bugger me if the young bloke isn’t into a fish straight away , then another and a couple more all small pannie snapper ..one was worth keeping the rest we returned….then his rod bends and a bloody horse of a Kahawai gives him a work out, that bled and gutted and on ice he returns to fishing …

Boom his rod bends and the reel howls as a solid fish powers away , he gains line and looses it , we see the leader then it’s gone in a screamer of a run all the line lost and back to square one, the fish digs in and stays deep …thump thump thump …I’m getting nervous because we are only using 3/0 hooks expecting to only catch pannies and thinking that the nylon will be rubbing over the fishes teeth…

Slowly and achingly painfully line is won …then the fish slides into view getting bigger and bigger , then power’s away again “heart in mouth stuff “ …then up it rises into the net and it’s ours! A beauty …I’m not sure who was more excited myself or Aaron.

Photos and high fives and smiles all round .

Well when your hot your hot …down the young bloke goes again and he’s in again this time a huge gurnard ..he can’t bloody miss …mean while Roktoy catches a few keepers and I once again realise why I’m a diver ( because I’m sure as hell not a fisherman)

The day passed to quickly and the wind turned and our little patch of paradise started to chop up, so we recovered our hook line to find only one wee snapper on it, the wind blew and we steamed for home ……

We filted the fish , cleaned the boat , headed to the wharf fed the stingrays and then bid each other farewell…

Thanks Roktoy and family for a epic overnighter , the yarns the laughter and bloody Aaron for catching all the damn fish…well done young man!

16 pounds of happiness!

Not a lure to be seen!

Mates use baits!

what was the bait? I have used koi carp to great success. but only in terms of number caught not size ha

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

what was the bait? I have used koi carp to great success. but only in terms of number caught not size ha

The humble pilchard! They are my go to for snapper at this time of year

Look at that grin, well done young fella.

Good on you Stingray and Rocktoy for getting Aaron onto a fish like that, one he will remember for sure

Had a good softbait session yesterday, took a while to find them but then it was all on. Tried 20m, them 15, then 5 and found them in 9m

Got to love the settled Autumn weather, late start at midday to allow enough tide to get over the Ohiwa Bar out onto the mud.

Heaps of small snapper in the 30 range sent back to grow bigger, a few larger specimens with my best taken on a glowbug slider. One 70cm Kingie and only a couple of kahawai. Great day out and shared the catch around tonight.

Glass



Let the filleting begin



Dinner tonight, fresh snapper pan fried in Butter, mayo, greens and tomatoes all on fresh bread with plenty of butter

It's just before 3am (I think!), time to go fishing!

Originally Posted by MB

It's just before 3am (I think!), time to go fishing!

So how did you go?

Originally Posted by stingray

So how did you go?

Fishing competition. Shot out to the Hen & Chicks in complete darkness (heavy cloud cover) and had about 3 hours to catch my fish before picking up my son and his mate to give them a crack. Just about managed to limit out on snapper, but they weren't very big and no other species showed. Fishing in Whangarei Harbour was slow compared to recent trips, but the boys managed to catch a couple of fish each, plus had some fun with a stingray and an undersize kingfish.

lol that's the only reason I've got out of bed at stupid O'clock in the past