Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by stingray

Home form epic weekend of weather fit for fisherman ! Look like you guys have had a hell run also! Down Okiwi sat afternoon after a xmas work do Friday night! Sun and more sun with bugger all breeze saw VC and me cooking. Ran up to Soucis dropped a hook line at 100 ft and then with great weather ran out wide to 40 meter mark ..Dropped the other hook line and set to fishing ...well we slayed ...spikies more spikies a horse Kaiwhai that did a great job of burley pot VC line me the works ...lovely ...so after a couple hours of that we pulled the hook lines, very few small carrots , a half eaten spikie still twitching and bleeding two hooks later a large seven giller!

Shot over to the islands dropped a hookline fished cooked a bit more then pulled hookline to 12 beautiful carrots. Home to the Crib caught up with family shared yarns and beer made a plan of epic ness! Bed ....up at bloody early VC sorted a mean as feed ..in boat and off to the pass for kingi's ...

Arrived to find a number of boats of all sizes already plying the waters ...no one catching the only kingi's we could see on the sounder we're hard up against the bank in very shallow water ...my new shinny kit did great except the operator was pretty average 3 drops 3 snags ...got them all free thanks to our skippers skill and a bit of luck...still no kingi's ...last week it was so easy this week it was pretty grim indeed ..no one catching ...

Tired for a cod on another bit of reef nothing happening there either ...then as we steamed back towards the pass VC spies on the sounder a school of bait ...down with the jigs with kingi's following them to the surface ...down again whack both hooked up on small but very welcome fish ...boated them measured my one stretched to the pass mark so we binned it ...then we went back to find the school which like a fart in a hurricane had vanished. Tried the pass again fish still holding very shallow so with yet another snagand lost lure we buggered off to have a dive.

Dropped my son over the side ...caught a few good cod and he reappeared with a very nice cray and a couple of takers. With the sea breeze kicking in and the sun turning up the heat from pleasent to BBQ. We pulled the pin and headed for home. Yet another fantastic weekend only to be topped off by my son landing an apprenticeship as a plumber ..sun and wind burnt ...bloody exhausted ..no photos because well I was busy fishing!

Great people making great memories ! Learning bit by bit along the way once again VC does the simple things very well and put us onto the fish , cheers Cam your a bloody beaut!

I spent yesterday on the rocks at the pass. No kingies but I have never seen so many small Kahawai in my life. I had to use the biggest lures I had to stop catching them but even then they kept chasing it in every cast. We did get a few kingies the evening before on the boat though. Hooked 4, landed 3 and kept one. All were about the same size, 80-90cm.