Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Bit of a report of yesterdays events, got on the water and straight out to 40 meters the water was the darkest blue I’ve ever seen in Tasman bay, set three tuna lures soaking, the very old blue and white I found in the boat shed reconditioned with a new leader and sharp set of doubles got the first attention with a hit in the first five mins but no hook up, so after 15 mins of no action and a untangle , we reset the lures right in the wake of the boat and increased the boat speed to 9 mph according to the reading on the dash!

Well that did the trick and bang Mini VC has a screamer on and well we did a bit off yelling and panicking and clearing the gear! That done we settled down and got to getting the fish to the boat , after a bit of a battle we had the leader in hand and the gaff at the ready, the fish panicked swam hard at the motor a bit of slack line and we believe the nylon pulled tight against the hull of the boat and snapped.

Nothing for it but to chuck the lures back in set them like last time , get the boat up to speed and cross our fingers….well the fishing gods smiled on me, not 10 mins later my rig was howling as line left the reel, this time no panicking gear was cleared boat speed maintained then into the fight!

It took a bit to wrestle the tuna to the boat and when it saw the boat it powered off again we circled it keeping the fish away from the motor and the side of the boat VC got the leader and skull dragged the tuna aboard …you beauty! A quick photo and some knife work bleeding the fish , then guts and gills out and packed with salt ice ..beauty!

Ran the gear out for another go , hooked three massive Kahawai all at once saw a bit of bedlam but all ended well!

Off for a cod bash , well the VC team did that bashing cod with a fury VC snagged a horse on a (baited) lure and mini VC caught his limit in one drop with two beauties! Whist the other family team well took a more studied approach and enjoyed the day the calm seas and the bloody ravenous small cod

My daughter did hold up the family honour with a couple of keepers! The we set sail for home stopped at a snapper spot got plagued by small carrots at least one was caught twice if not three times. Burnt the burley , mini VC got through most of the tucker on board and so we headed for home!

Gutted the fish ran the auxiliary motor only to have it blow a out let hose off it’s fitting, so fixed that at home and with a bit of bush craft maintenance we cleared the obstruction in the out let pipe !

Had beer and chilled raw tuna and soya sauce yarns and laughter ! Bed late made up early difficult. So alarms were snoozed and a lazy day ensued..the VC team did the lawns and I did a cleanup ..thanks guys bloody champions!