Well done Shearer, fresh trevs are bloody good eating. Dusted in flour and fried in butter.
Go the micro jigs
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Well done Shearer, fresh trevs are bloody good eating. Dusted in flour and fried in butter.
Go the micro jigs
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Nice one Shearer. I've been getting a few from the rocks with ultralight lure fishing gear.
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Excellent.
They're great fun eh. And great eating. As @kukuwai said, very under rated fish. Some people still think of them as bait.
Yeah, fight like demons on light gear and my household is happy to see them on the dinner plate. Usually raw or cooked in lemon juice. Pan fried when fresh is good too. I would rather catch trevally than snapper!
@MB How light are you talking? What rod/braid/leader strains are you fishing?
Rod 2-4kg
Reel 1000
Braid 6lb
Leader 6 - 10lb
Started off as a sort of combined agi and trout setup, then attempted to catch flounder with it. Failed at that, but picked up other species such as parore, kahawai and spotties on lures! Lots of fun. Getting a few trevally now. Big enough to keep. It's hit and miss whether you can land them, but you won't get anywhere near as many bites with heavier gear.
Catching a few now. Started off by accident. Turns out they are not vegetarian, but they are not fish-eaters either. They like eating crustaceans and will hit small "creature" softbaits. Just in case you didn't know, fishing for them in Aussie is a big thing. They call them luderick or blackfish.
And here, black snapper, the flesh is not dissimilar to Snapper.
The only proviso I'd add, is to not eat them from near a sewerage outlet, as they'll be eating the greeblies that live there.
Otherwise an excellent table fish.
That's interesting. I tried one once. Speared in open ocean. Breaded and fired. Wife and son ate it, I couldn't!
I read somewhere that if you want to eat these "vegetarian" fish you shouldn't open the gut cavity. It has a black lining that can apparently taint the flesh.
I made the mistake of gutting right away rather than filleting. When you gut the fish, the black line remains. Either way, the texture wasn't too pleasing. A little mushy. Fun to catch, they fight surprisingly hard, but once bitten, twice shy, there are better fish to eat.
Trevally is my favorite pan-fried when fresh yum
[QUOTE=Shearer;1516110. I cheated though and used bait (sea lettuce).[/QUOTE]
Wait on? What? Say it ain’t so!
The lure guru ….used bait? Noooo!!!! :fire:
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Working the charter boat yesterday over the Kaipara bar..........had some visitors.
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Looked like Dad, Mum and bubs (bottom to top) brought junior over to teach him about boats.......They approached the boat 6 times and each time dad stayed between the boat and the other 2 but they got closer to the boat each time......on the 7th time dad was on the outside with bubs between him and mum...on the 8th time bubs was closest to the boat with mum on the outside and dad following bubs right on his tail.
Watching the baby mimic every move the adults were doing was amazing....their synchronicity was perfect.
Here is a close up of mum and bubs......
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Only got 6 pics before I hit the reverse pic button on my phone and ended up with a few pics of my own ugly mug, fag hanging out the side of my mouth and an expression of awe on my dial...........:D
We had it out on moeraki the other week had a pod of prob close to 100 come in to the boat and start playing all round the boat wish I'd had the kids with me that trip got some cool vid of it tho
Octopus on a softbait. Duly barbecued. Better eating than anything with fins.
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Another decent trevally from the beach. 2.7kg, 57cm. Would have been stoked if I'd caught it from the boat.
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Went out for my opening.
I always fish November onwards.
Saw 12.
Landed 2. Dropped 1. Missed 1.
All in deep pools down deep but with the fast flows and high river levels of late down here it was quite technical with a dry dropper plus trying to get to were ya wanted to .
I could've done a bit better if I'd popped a tungsten double nymph rug on but opted not to as when targeting the side streams I like to see the dries work their magic .
The one I did miss was on a good old Humpy and I missed the take twice. Which I later caught on a good old fashioned copper John.
Fish are in poor condition due either to late spawning or higher than normal flows and levels so all released.
Kayak fishing out from Cable Bay, pretty nice bit of coastline.
Tried lures only today and picked up one good carrot from the middle of the bay and a 36cm blue cod from in close when I tucked in out of the wind.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...aca45bf5cf.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f2492d1f27.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f8c2b470ad.jpg
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4 hours in the kayak for one kahawai... must be doing something wrong.
Oh and 3 spikey dogs as I used bait today.. still nice out and starting to get use to this not working caper....
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Can be hard fishing in the middle of the day or small tides, good current and change of light is generally the best in my experience.
Dad went out last thursday (big tides) took two old ladys, they caught 25 snapper and realeased 5 massive ones kept 20 and were heading back in at 930 am, current and burly up!
possibly need a trace???? trolling lures....
@vietnamcam thanks, last Thursday I ran into a kayak fisher at cable bay he had caught 4 x 10lbs in a couple of hours. So Thursday was good tides and good fishing on the lunar calendar, we did pick up 3 big flounder using SRs net Thursday evening
I was on the water by 8am, need to get up earlier.. don't particularly like using berly on the kayak, had a Mako join me in the yak of Taranaki a few years back.. after that I stopped using berly..
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the story of fella doing cray pots off yak and his intimate encounter with octopus made me chuckle and shiver in equal measure.
Got the call up for decky duty, 4:30am launch saw us poke our nose out into a very strong SW blowing, so we tucked in the harbor and waited for wind to drop, which it did. Headed out to 20m and deployed the burley and dropped the baits over side.
Slow fishing but we Picked up 4 x snapper and a couple of gurnard. The snapper were plenty big enough to feed a few of us. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9b76d107c1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...cb9a16a2ca.jpg
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Ahhh now I know what fishing Delaware Bay is all about.. spikey dogs, spikey dogs and more spikey dogs..then a big greyboy
Tried drifting in 30m, 25m and 15m, with no burely finally at 7m no spikey dogs but no other fish either. Did note water temp lower out wide... warmer in 7m
Otherside of bay and out from Nelson seems warmer and fishing better.
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I just got a nice one on my baitrunner [emoji106]
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Yesterday. Finally got the ski wet. While waiting for the tide to drop, we trolled for kahawai with a few strikes, but no hookups.
A quick afternoon tea on a random bit of sand before dragging the net in a channel for an hour. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...86d5da574d.jpg
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When you're supposed to be working from home, but birds are diving right in front of your house :D
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