Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Gibo

Mean, I'm off down the east coast for some land based action this weekend!! Want a 20+ kingi if possible

Great area. Where are you going?
Good luck.

Maraehako camp ground will be the base. Got some tips? PM

Originally Posted by Gibo

Maraehako camp ground will be the base. Got some tips? PM

Lotin point (sp) is usually cited as Kingi heaven

Originally Posted by Gibo

Maraehako camp ground will be the base. Got some tips? PM

Lotin point (sp) is usually cited as Kingi heaven

Originally Posted by Pengy

Lotin point (sp) is usually cited as Kingi heaven

Not going that far around mate

Lovely morning in the Pelorus today and looks like a week of it ahead before another big rain start of Feb.
Spotties cleaned us out of bait and should have kept some of them for bait as the Gurnard arrived and we caught 2 with last 2 pieces of bait.



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Home , filleted , showered ..bed ! Ahhhh day shift how I enjoy the evenings! Thank you VC for waiting around for me! Weird as day out ! We sat in the middle of a very fishy area, kaiwhai feeding on the surface around us in patches! We burleyed baited and stared with a hiss and a roar with a small grey boy and a wee gurnard.

First strange thing was the very notable difference in current lines, then it was the current itself instead of running ( out going) towards the north, it was runnng west to east across the bay! Only at end of end tide did it finally run true!

Second weird thing was the amount of weed in the water , Tasman bay is sadly lacking in any amount of weed mass and yet we sat amoungst rafts of the stuff drifting past.

Third weird thing was bloody blue bottles for about an hour we sat amoungst them some were the biggest I've ever seen damn near the size of your palm , I've never seen after November in the Tasman ..Normanly about in August!

Forth / fith was the bait it was a tiny whitebait sized fish we had schools of a dozen to a hundred hang behind the boat and then came the plankton, when the tide started the water was empty and as it ran though the plankton became thicker and thicker!

Ahh but back to the sharking ...well not to dissapiont we had them sorted baby grey boy by the handful ,VC's only interrupted the flow with a mullet , kawhai , brim! Watched the sun dip over the horizon ,and wandered home.

The company was excellent as above every day is differnt , but a wonderful way to enjoy nature and life in general!

Heading to the Bay of Many Coves tomorrow.

I dont know much about the snapper on that side but have been told it can fish quite well. Have fished there heaps but have never hooked a snapper. To be fair I have never targeted one.

Seen a couple years ago when diving for scollys in the wee cove we are staying but they never hung around and were off a rocky point hanging around the foul.

Anyone have any knowledge on the area or if there is even any snaps around on that side of the sounds at the moment.

Only being allowed 2 blue cod each has me keen to try for something different.

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I dont know the area but my advice is burly....lots and lots of burly and a variety of baits.
Burly a few meters up off the bottom in whatever depth.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I dont know the area but my advice is burly....lots and lots of burly and a variety of baits.
Burly a few meters up off the bottom in whatever depth.

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I agree but have no idea. Was told fishing from shore was best.

Met fella on the ferry a few months ago that runs a local barge.

His photos of snapper were awesome and he seemed to thing he could catch them easier than cod on that side.
I lost his card but remember where he parked the barge.
I might look him up if I have any time to spare

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Originally Posted by R93

I agree but have no idea. Was told fishing from shore was best.

Met fella on the ferry a few months ago that runs a local barge.

His photos of snapper were awesome and he seemed to thing he could catch them easier than cod on that side.
I lost his card but remember where he parked the barge.
I might look him up if I have any time to spare

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My old man remembers the local owner of the bnb that was in the same bay as our batch used to get them off his jetty - bay of many coves, it was the bay before aratawa, but I have literally fished there since I could walk and never seen one - never target them though just the old blue cod


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Originally Posted by Smiddy

My old man remembers the local owner of the bnb that was in the same bay as our batch used to get them off his jetty - bay of many coves, it was the bay before aratawa, but I have literally fished there since I could walk and never seen one - never target them though just the old blue cod


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You and I have had a conversation about the snaps up there before. You know who I am staying with and he is the same. Had a batch there for years and never heard of snaps being caught there.

Was talking to a mate today that has caught heaps in the Bay of Many Coves.
Technique is no different to anywhere else but they always fished from shore so I will take some of his advice and give it a go.

I am snapper repellent so don't like my chances.
I have to dive a few moorings so will have a look where I seen them before but will try to dive on the change of light.

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Originally Posted by R93

You and I have had a conversation about the snaps up there before. You know who I am staying with and he is the same. Had a batch there for years and never heard of snaps being caught there.

Was talking to a mate today that has caught heaps in the Bay of Many Coves.
Technique is no different to anywhere else but they always fished from shore so I will take some of his advice and give it a go.

I am snapper repellent so don't like my chances.
I have to dive a few moorings so will have a look where I seen them before but will try to dive on the change of light.

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You make sure you let me know, I hope it's not like your last fishing session I witnessed, broken lines and lots of screaming lol i still laugh thinking about it


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East Coast Kingis!!!!!!! bring it

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