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Deal! Better be quick tho or wait till mid/late October before they are back.
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With the exception of squid I have never caught a fish on any of those and have tried many many times with all but Trevally
And BTW Clams are Cockles and we sell our excess bait squid to silly poms to eat as calamari
I Invite you now to my bait thread.
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Me neither, but heaps of people do.
Yep in the tin, exactly the same thing, just different name so people don't think they are eating bait haha!
In South Africa it is the other way around, you fish with sardines and get pilchards in the tin!
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Mmmmm?..got a thing or two to learn about braid:oh noes:
Braid knots pull up fine without a ton of pressure, just tie one and try and undo the fecker!! If you are testing a knot then yeah use a glove or something.
Thanks
Good tip with braid knots @madjon is to do more wraps in the knot than you would with mono. If for example tying a uni knot, if you were using 20lb mono and did 5 turns, do at least 8 in braid as it pulls up really easy. I sometimes double it too because it is so thin but am not convinced this makes any difference apart from giving you a larger diameter to work with. I also tend to used quite heavy braid (15lb for trout, 30lb for bottom fishing) so very rarely have the braid bust before the leader unless it gets damaged. I also cut off the first 10m regularly to try and stop that happening.
Not long now old girl....you have served my family well for over 30 years and soon you can rest and never have an engine hung on your transom again.
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Bloody stingrays have turned back up....it's too bloody warm.
So far 3 have gone over the top of my net thankfully bit the tide is just starting to push now.
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I don't like wrestling meter wide stingers in a net in a dingy in the dark.
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How's that forecast treating you @veitnamcam :oh noes:
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Waitira river bar,
Thursday afternoons efforts, in the wind and rain, kinda slow, but just about to pack up, and a nice snapper, give it 30 min and another, best was 50cm, and two small sent back to the sea, few KY, and a massive eel, 500m of the Waitira river bar in 9m water.
Spent a couple hours, surf casting down the beach for an evening fish, Nice to Be back in Nz after 7 months in the Canadian north.
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
Thank you for the reply
Up in Nelson today so taking the old mans boat out of rabbit island to have a look for some fish. @veitnamcam you been having any luck lately?
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Yep.....you should have said you were up and I would have sent you further north.
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She was pretty rough out there for the little wee boat so didn't last long. Back at home now. Might have another go tomorrow afternoon
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Did alright this morning. Bit of chop for a start but turned very pleasant indeed.
More carrots and big Kahawai than snapper but came home with a couple of feeds for me and a mates families.
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Nice fish mate, I see you and I have got the same fish bins. Taking the new boat out tomorrow for its first run in kawhia harbour going to be going over to te maika where there is a 13 meter deep hole inside the harbour with a rocky bottom I want to check out before next weekends fishing comp over there.
You out there doing it @sambnz ?