Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Our little @stingray has finally grown up

Ah the "old salting the hooks" trick...

I had the resort to that yesterday as well, 3 off us ended up with 16 snapper between us, mostly between 32 and 36cm. A couple of Kahawai as well. Baits out fished the lures at least 3 to 1.

Fished out in 33m from ohiwa until the wind and chop drove us in and we headed up the harbour on way home to pick up one in 4m of water.

Surfcasting has been slow for me my normal possies just not producing.

Cheers FBD

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Lesson: Read the message properly, you idjit.

Finished work at 1pm Saturday, grabbed the lad and some gear.
Arrived a few minutes late to the local flounder rehabilitation area. Odd, there's no one else here? I'm usually the straggler.
Hmm, open phone and re read message.
I'm not late, I'm early. 24 hours early.
Looked at the lad, and we both shrugged our shoulders. Oh well, we're here, and the tide isn't in too far...
We quickly wet the net in the incoming tide, grabbed two flatfish, and headed home and warmed them up in the smoker for an early dinner.



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Originally Posted by ROKTOY

Lesson: Read the message properly, you idjit.

Finished work at 1pm Saturday, grabbed the lad and some gear.
Arrived a few minutes late to the local flounder rehabilitation area. Odd, there's no one else here? I'm usually the straggler.
Hmm, open phone and re read message.
I'm not late, I'm early. 24 hours early.
Looked at the lad, and we both shrugged our shoulders. Oh well, we're here, and the tide isn't in too far...
We quickly wet the net in the incoming tide, grabbed two flatfish, and headed home and warmed them up in the smoker for an early dinner.



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Bugger was working otherwise would have joined ya

Don’t say no!

Got a txt yesterday , something about a flounder bash, was having a beer with a couple of blokes from work, so just sent a yeah / na ?

Well the lawns were done and washing on the line, the Autumn sun was wandering across the sky , So I sat down for a beer and a relax…and the red Waka turned up at my place, out hoped the short fella…are you coming he asks?

I looked around and at her indoors , na mate I’ll give it a miss! It was just a lazy Sunday afternoon……

Well ok said the short fella ..if your sure , well we will see ya …


He pulled foward out of the drive way and gave me a sad look….ahhh fuck it let me grab some gear wetsuit bottoms, warm tops , and can I fit in the dog?

In we all jumped, and away to the tide!

VC and his dad met us at the channel, into wetsuits and yarns.


Into the tide the @Pengy’s new net! Well the sun shined and was warm on our backs , dragged the channel slowly and bites were felt, we beached the net to a beautiful harvest, we set free a few shorts and set to clearing the net, we set back into the tide and watched fish busting up down the channel, it was just one of those afternoons!

Birdlife , fish busting up , great folks and yarns and laughter damn near perfect! We binned a feed of fish each and wandered home before the sun dipped behind the hills. I enjoyed every second,

Guess you have to get out of your own way …when your offered an easy trip grab it with both hands and enjoy it!

A huge thanks to @Pengy and VC and senior VC what a wicked afternoon! Truely magic!

I dont know. We could of done better than 47 fish

Originally Posted by Pengy

I dont know. We could of done better than 47 fish

Yes we could have but someone would have had to fillet them.
They keep freshest in the water.

Originally Posted by Pengy

I dont know. We could of done better than 47 fish

In case anyone is thinking "greedy bsatrds". There were 4 of us involved in the mission to evaluate the new net. So, 11.75 fish per person.
I know for a fact that 99% of those fish were gifted to friends/neighbours etc.
Good banter and bs ending in many people getting a nice fresh feed of fish. Who could ask for more

tideking.com says fishing is good for Thursday so that'll be me

Mojo lacking at the moment for some reason. Working too hard at actual work I think. Wife persuaded me to go out tomorrow which is a first. Boat locked and loaded. No real plan. Catch a feed. A kingfish would be nice.

Work is fishing kryptonite....to be avoided if at all possible.
Unless the weather's shit...then work your arsenal off so you can Nick off when there's a good weather window.

Anyone have some tips for finding Crays up durville way? not looking for specific spots but each year i head up in march and try a couple of spots, after 5 years no crays found anywhere. ive started just taking freedive gear as ive got a few paua spots and that beats coming home empty handed.

So can anyone help with depths i should be looking? heavy structure? East or West? or out from bouldery hills/Beaches? I dive alone so i generally stay well away from areas with current, Is that Why im missing?

Thanks for any help.

Originally Posted by stuart165

Anyone have some tips for finding Crays up durville way? not looking for specific spots but each year i head up in march and try a couple of spots, after 5 years no crays found anywhere. ive started just taking freedive gear as ive got a few paua spots and that beats coming home empty handed.

So can anyone help with depths i should be looking? heavy structure? East or West? or out from bouldery hills/Beaches? I dive alone so i generally stay well away from areas with current, Is that Why im missing?

Thanks for any help.

If your getting Pāua , then your on or close to cray turf, weed and cracks , silty dark corners. Weed is great but large boulder bottom is as well.
Look for Blue and Red Moki and don’t spear them , they’re your mates follow them they will lead you to crays!

Depth wise from 3 to 30 meters, they don’t seem to like the surge to much so a quiet weedy bays are my first jumping off spot.


That or head for Kaikoura, few crays around that area

Locate the sea
Get into the sea,
Put your head under the surface,
Look for rocks, kelp and cray feelers,
Zero in on feelers and determine whether there is a cray body attached to them,
Report findings to @stingray and appeal to him to come catch the buggers.

Dad wanted to go get some oysters so the Son and I went to give him a hand.
Things went well everything worked like it should and we got a few dozen each.