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Today was his day …holy shit South Island West Coast
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A bloke I know , shared beers , trips and some hockey games with ….
Today was his day …holy shit South Island West Coast
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Awesome well done.
Very well done!!
Dream fish :cool:
Helluva fish. Gibo would be dwarfed behind that
Weekend weather looking good for auckland east coast for a change .must get boat out put some hours on it .
Took a workmate out today, gentlemens hours....shit tides....no current.
Limit of cod, couple feeds of gurnard...pruned a few goats and collected a bit of dog tucker.
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Divers pulled out tomorrow so might do some yard work.
Tried hard but no hook ups....primo day tho.
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Did see them so they are there [emoji106]
How was the drag netting VC you make it out?
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Bigeye??
Cold SE wind meant tucking in close to the coast today, out fishing with a neighbour in his boat. Three gurnard, 2 that went 44cm, 2 spikey dog and one southern sail fish.
Beautiful part of the coast, crystal clear water and a good few, if cold, hours on the water. Perfect Saturday finish with a cold beer orctwo back on the beach.
Cheers FBD
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Went up the Raglan Harbour last weekend Floundering …. Found a good bed of what I assume are dredge oysters … any reasons not to eat em ??
someones looking...is the only one that MIGHT stop me...and then only if I was in a good mood.
my Aunty was a lovely Nga puhi lady...she was sitting on beach having a feed of oysters and fisheries officer asked her what she was doing.... well he got told...probably very politely knowing Aunty...she was having a feed of oysters....and would move on when had done so....he knew when was beaten and walked away.
So this happened yesterday
First time chasing bluefin, we lost one (pulled hook) after 1.5 hrs fight.
Then managed to hook this one at 2:30pm, ended up fighting him for 5 hours into the night.
Estimate at 150kg over 2m long.
So stoked!!
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Probably saw you out here Burt, loopy boats swarming us when we haul.
Just interested to see if anyone else has been catching snapper with very white flesh.
What I have found is that up to 50% Snapper taken off the sand out of Whananaki (Northland) have white flesh, which is a sign of malnutrition according to MPI.
This is the first year I have seen this in big numbers and in the past 30 years of fishing in the area have only seen this in a single fish before.
Can now identify these fish when caught as they a a bit skinny and are slimy to touch.
There are a lot of bait fish about and there are more snapper than I have seen for a number of years.
From conversations with other anglers, it appears that reef fish, while still effected don't have the same frequency of the issue.
Just interested to see if the issue is wide spread.
Cheers
that sounds like a post spawning trout...referred to as "slabs" because they are slabsided and not good eating at all. given a bit of time to feed up the yput the condition back on again.
Caught a few the other week 2 had the white flesh.fish so.skinny.heading out 2mrw I think.ill.throw anything back poorly conditioned
The Turangi fishery is going well at the moment, maybe the cold snap and or moon phase? Had 4 days, landing a fish per half hour of fishing on average. Only one slab, and about 50% freshies.
Post spawn fish.....happens to all whitefish species.
They have put everything they have into producing eggs and milt while not feeding much or at all and in a month or two they will be fine.
slab as I said four posts back,is a post spawning fish that is skinny and SLABsided.....thus called a slab.
back in the 80s a slab was also a 24 pack of cans on a cardboard tray,one of the road safety adds of the day.... when youve polished off a slab and you shouldve called a cab,dont worry mate shell be right........you also risked ending up on morticians slab if did the same.
freshie is trout or salmon that has recently arrived in river to spawn,thus its FRESHly arrived usually in top condition as has fattened up for the spawning effort.
Fresh salmon= chromer
About to spawn/spawning salmon= booter/boot
Got back to my home and wife & cats for couple of week. Fishing tomorrow at the same place, same time for same fishes. Hopefully I can catch the 50cm long silver fish and a big cat fish.
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Got @Joe Schmo out for a flounder.
Flounder dog out of practice,water cold, got a few feeds all was well only took one pic.
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Matt might have something to add.
Met up with a good guy and a good dog…held onto a stick and tried to do as
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Anyone want to go for a fish tomorow?
I gotta be in fairly early for other comitments...
I gotta work, big blue boat alongside !
Bugger Im working too, what r u chasing Cam?
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Thanks Cam, good day out on the water working the way though Southern sailfish and spikey dogs to get a few carrots and blue cod. @stingray The lures even worked on the carrots
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Was a few lucky goats left to fatten for another day too.
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Blue Cod and green shit, ocean to plate in half a day, bit nicer than goat curry. Happy to be the sucker taking a day off work. Bloody good chewing.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e3f40eae68.jpg
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Your mum makes you eat brussel sprouts too.:sick: