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What is the small fish called?
Out for a Paua with @stingray today.
Drive over hill.
Nice and calm but viz poor.
Got our limit of Paua and had a look round.
I shot a butter and a moki.
I also stuffed up catching a cray.
Then off to grab a few feeds of greenlip mussels
All in all a good day.
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Looks like a minta [emoji106]
Well done [emoji41]
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Primo :thumbsup:
Mums 71st Birthday today so I told her I would take her and the grandkids out fishing.
She thankfully thought that was a splendid idea. [emoji41]
With 4 kids and Mum I nearly didn't take a rod but decided at the last minute to throw in my bait runner. Surely I can sneak that out the back !!
Off to 15m out from Mot early...burly was deployed and rods dropped. With the wind against the tide I ended up sneaking the bait runner out the front instead of the back. It never looks amazing with the line out right next to the anchor rope !!
Pretty busy morning for me with a few tangles to sort out. Kahawai and brim to unhook etc. Almost forgot my rod was out until it started screaming !! Engaging the drag had no effect as the line continued to peel off it, SHIT I thought!
Managed to pass the rod around the side of the cockpit and get it into the back of the boat and got the kids to wind up. At this stage I am thinking a kingi had eaten the pilly but after some time we got a look at it.
A big snapper !!
It wasn't long before we had it in the net. I was keen to tag it and let it go. Unfortunatly it was hooked deep in the throat and I wasn't going to put my hand in its mouth to get it out. The pliers weren't long enough and by the time I got it out it was bleeding from the gills and had been out of the water a while so into the bin it went.
Turned out to be 81cm and 24pd [emoji41]
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I wish mum had of got it but she had a great time so that is all that matters [emoji106]
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Awesome fish. I bet mum was just as happy to see you catch it.:thumbsup:
Awesomeness :cool:
Nice Fish.!!.
Good nick too.
Yep it sure was in good nick.
I don't reckon it was that old either. It still had some pointy teeth near the front of its mouth.
From what I have previously seen in fish that size, the teeth are often worn right down to nubs !!
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Managed to take a mental day off work with good weather and smashed a few snapper off durville and went wide in Tasman bay getting onto a heap of albacore tuna
A lot of fun had and a magic day on the water
Should have taken a set of dive gear!!
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Love that blue water ! Love having the Tuna in Tasman bay !
Great fish
So, basically in Nelson and Marborough region you can have all the fun with both SI & NI fishes, right?
In our Spring / Summer …October- April the fishing is good ..December - March weather conditions permitting we get the warm blue water in the top of the South Island and the fishing is very good, Albacore tuna and whispers of bill fish off the west coast …
We then get one very special visitor off the west coast …Blue fin tuna they follow the Hoki schools and these track through the cook strait, and down the west coast out in to the Hokitika trench.
Then in the winter we have here in the Top of the south , spikey dog fish lots and lots and the a few thousand more spikey bloody dog fish…the odd gurnard ,blue cod and then a few more spikey dog fish just to rub salt into the wound!
just as well you like catching spikey dogs then.
Thank you. I like salt water fishing, and I read some about fishing in your region since I still enjoy the NI fishes. I fished in picton once stayed for two nights with my wife, but there was no any luck, even on a spot that an old fisherman told us. Yeah, I am still a land based, but I am very keen to train my sea legs once I settled.
Out for a cheeky Sunday fish over the Ohiwa Bar on a grey day, Caught a heap of snapper in the 35-40 range and enough Kahawai for a feed out of the hot smoker. Shared dinner with Mum tonight and gave a few fillets, heads and frames away along with a few kahawai. Good way to end the week.
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Mixed bag at Collingwood this evening from the ski.
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@Shearer - Jet Ski? what are you running?
I like the idea of a ski to fish from, easy launch from beach, handle by myself and ok in shallow water. I used to drive IRBs for surfclub so know the skis can go almost anywhere in the surf.
Cheers
FishPros are awesome. If I was going to get another ski, it would be a FishPro.
Well into the tide we wandered…
A bit of a what to do this weekend …chores were done and the sun beat down on a Saturday afternoon pushing me into the shade …I picked up my phone and a cold beer …the tide times popped up and well …well you cannot let a good afternoon tide go to waste…
So txting some of the local fishing folk …I got reply’s like …do we have to?
So after a bit of rubber arm twisting , and dragging the @Pengy down from his roost , and sorting everything thing out to perfection…
I watched the ebb tide wander out of our local estuary…and watched as vehicles arrived full of fisherman …all but one …we waited and politely waited then then burnt fuel…
Arrived late to the flats , with a mid range flood we arrived to find the gutter damn near perfect …well drained we where almost late to the digs …we plunged in and set to hauling ..hits and small fish jumping all around the drag in the front out the back and …….snagged …got the short fella wetsuited up to lift the drag out of the sand barr , and then again and again ….thanks @ROKTOY your a bloody legend!
Small fish , even I’m 100 % sure there were half grown flounder that were bumping the net and then skimming the surface along with plenty of small Kahawai ..
So the drag was beached 3 flounder , the next haul 5 flounder , then 3 flounder …the fishing crew was epic ..in ..clear the net …out …drag ..yarn.. laughs, haul ..set up the drag , clean the fish ..ice the fish ..what a bloody epic team!
Then we ran out of tide, so headed up the gutter to set up for the flood…
Well we had an audience with my lady ,my mother in law , and the good lady from next door ! All standing on the bank calling us to land fish …whilst I was standing in the flood saying ..we are not wasting a second of the flood tide …
Guess who won ??
the net was beached to see 5 big flatties on the hard and the ladies satisfied they retreated to the high ground as the flood pushed …so into the tide once more …
The tide flooded for the first time this year …it really got going a current deep in the gutter ..more fish skimming the surface and then thump thump thump thump
Both sides of the drag thump thump …smiles abounded but the tide was pushing and thigh deep had turned into neck deep in half an hour …
so we tip toed and bumped / swam the net in up it came with Roktoy hauling and the Pengy counting one , two , five , …..well that was a bloody epic drag …
Fish gutted, washed clean , iced and sorted …then the net was chucked on the beach and time taken to clear the weed and sticks …
Off to the trucks with a warm Autumn sun on our back , a cold beer in the ice bin and a couple of bags of chips to chew on as we finished the afternoon yarning and making plans…
A van with a boat in tow wandered out onto the flats ..to launch into the flooding tide …we ate snacks , yarned and watched the day drift quietly ..
Then watched the flood tide creep up on the van and boat …then the owner running for shore and our crew scrambling out of our seats of leisure and into help out mode…
The next half hour was just that a flooding tide , a stuck van and trailer , broken straps , but all the while quietly, and very professionally directed by @ROKTOY ..
The man was a legend , no rush , no panic …just simply hook up and haul …snap ..redo haul …snap ..
To the point Roktoy said to me get your truck on the hard mate we do not want to be recovering two vehicles…get your truck safe
Then the owner turned up with a heavy duty bit of rope an a very lucky chance it was was damn near 100 meters long so with another vehicle , and to this day I will call my sons father in law the” hulk “ he lifted and the truck moved the van …
Boom …once it was moving ..keep it moving …..and by what was certainly the last gasp of luck the van ( still running) and truck made dry land …
The fall out ..whilst we congratulated ourselves on the recovery!
Roktoy once again took hold of the situation …two young blokes about 8 and 10 were in the boat that dad had launched …the eldest was in real distress …old Father Time Roktoy wanders up ..tells me …I’ve got this and gives the young but big brother a hug , holds onto him as the young bloke bursts into tears ..then he tells the young fellla some yarns to calm him …..in all my days on this earth …I was glad this man was with us!
A big blue tractor arrives with the boat trailer ..we trailer the boat and the share handshakes and smiles and get the hell out of the flooding tide …
Back on the dry stuff …everyone takes a moment, they secure the boat to the trailer and trailer to the van …we step aside and leave the to it …
The young folks come over to say a polite thank you and Pengy offers them a flounder or two …well they lift the lid on our fish bin and their eyes light up …” yes please” ..
So with a few flatties in their bin they head away …
We enjoyed the sunset and the company we had …the sand flies bit , and it was time for home ….
Epic evening and once again proud as hell to know all you folks.
What an afternoon eh lads. I'm glad we had a good outcome; it was getting pretty hairy at the end.
Ass end of said van was just starting to float as the last tow was made. Al hands on deck made the difference.
No vehicles were harmed n the making of this adventure.
One of those fishing trips that you will remember for years to come :)
glad you guys made it out, ok.
Always wanted to do barge fishing
keeps hearing the stories about it but never actually try it.
Mate rang up Saturday night and said the barge might be going tomorrow,
So off I went, launching from Kawakawa and heading off to the coromandel side (a long way from home).
Couldn't see any barge so we hooked on one of the mussel hook and hoped one might turn up,
While we wait, we drop the line and nekminit...
My mate got his limit and I have 4 fish in the bin,
and that's all the fish I need for my 2 good neibors.
So we headed back and barge fishing is still on my to do list :/
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Nice work Stingray and crew. It's always more fun when it's someone else's vehicle stuck in the tide.
Sounds like you guys got a feed and a show :)
That's a nice haul Snap 4T. With fishing like that who needs the barge aye :)
Well done team:cool:
[QUOTE=Pengy;1428033]Not me. I sat on the sidelines and let the experts sort it while I drank their beer[ and kept the ladies company/QUOTE]
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Went fishing a couple of weeks ago, i caught a scarpy but on the way up Mr John Dory swallowed it.
PB trev today. 55cm.
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12 snaps, 3 trevs and 1 carrot. A few hours out in Golden bay and all caught on the same lure.
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Good one Shearer. Love a good trev. Those little microjigs are dynamite. I like orange/lumo colours, can't tell from the photo if there is lumo on your jig, but whatever you are doing is working! Also messing around with tiny tungsten jigs, can get you a fish when times are hard. Didn't think fish took lures in your part of the world!
The tide of change …
Down to okiwi for a quick overnighter , wind was puffing and the sea was a mess when I stopped at the top of the hill for a look about, got to the batch unpacked and enjoyed the quiet!
Checked the weather forecast which promised slight seas and light winds …Roktoy and family arrived after tea and we cracked a couple of beers and yarned the evening away!
Woke up at 2 am to rain and wind had a pee , then woke up to my alarm at toooo early o’clock …hit the snooze button and caught a handful more Z’s
Up and away out into a fine clear morning with no wind but a niggly swell still rolling in, headed out to the northern passage and poked our nose outside of the islands to find a very messy sea running!
Pulled the pin on heading down the coast and headed up Squally cove to sheltered water …dropped a hook line in the middle of the bay and then anchored off a mussel raft and set a burley soaking …rigged up Young Aaron, and then tried to get a strayline rig organised …bugger me if the young bloke isn’t into a fish straight away , then another and a couple more all small pannie snapper ..one was worth keeping the rest we returned….then his rod bends and a bloody horse of a Kahawai gives him a work out, that bled and gutted and on ice he returns to fishing …
Boom his rod bends and the reel howls as a solid fish powers away , he gains line and looses it , we see the leader then it’s gone in a screamer of a run all the line lost and back to square one, the fish digs in and stays deep …thump thump thump …I’m getting nervous because we are only using 3/0 hooks expecting to only catch pannies and thinking that the nylon will be rubbing over the fishes teeth…
Slowly and achingly painfully line is won …then the fish slides into view getting bigger and bigger , then power’s away again “heart in mouth stuff “ …then up it rises into the net and it’s ours! A beauty …I’m not sure who was more excited myself or Aaron.
Photos and high fives and smiles all round .
Well when your hot your hot …down the young bloke goes again and he’s in again this time a huge gurnard ..he can’t bloody miss …mean while Roktoy catches a few keepers and I once again realise why I’m a diver ( because I’m sure as hell not a fisherman)
The day passed to quickly and the wind turned and our little patch of paradise started to chop up, so we recovered our hook line to find only one wee snapper on it, the wind blew and we steamed for home ……
We filted the fish , cleaned the boat , headed to the wharf fed the stingrays and then bid each other farewell…
Thanks Roktoy and family for a epic overnighter , the yarns the laughter and bloody Aaron for catching all the damn fish…well done young man!
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16 pounds of happiness!
Not a lure to be seen!
Mates use baits! :thumbsup: