Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Dundee

I know zilch about sea fishing but are those snapper killed with that mark behind the eye? Have you got a pic of the eel?

Fantastic photos of a great day! Like Dundee I would like to know about the eel! Do you think it was a fresh water variety? We caught one recently way out in open water (30metres deep) that I would have sworn was a sliver belly!

Originally Posted by stingray

Fantastic photos of a great day! Like Dundee I would like to know about the eel! Do you think it was a fresh water variety? We caught one recently way out in open water (30metres deep) that I would have sworn was a sliver belly!

We have caught quite a few eels around here from in the harbour (heaps of them) to out at Motiti and Karewa islands, they go out to spawn and stuff so not uncommon to catch them in the ocean. I don't know what a silverbelly is though but we have caught short and longfin.

Heaps of snapper about first light today, maxed out in 2 hrs even throwing legal s back

Originally Posted by stingray

Fantastic photos of a great day! Like Dundee I would like to know about the eel! Do you think it was a fresh water variety? We caught one recently way out in open water (30metres deep) that I would have sworn was a sliver belly!

Big conger, would be my guess, six feet long and very thick threw the body, guessing 200mm-250mm, brown, white belly, and grumpy. there was know way, I was having him, in the boat, and he can keep the hook.
snapper have been iked spiked, to kill them,