Looks more like a Mako to me - but I’m certainly not an expert.
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Looks more like a Mako to me - but I’m certainly not an expert.
I think you are right. Pointy nose and caudal keel on the tail.Quote:
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We thought so initially but looking it from different angles from the photo we all felt it was a GW - viewed from above the girth of the thing was huge.
As I said, I’m no expert. Just have a passing interest as I’ve been spear fishing most of my life and have no desire to come face to face with either species.
Your dinner looks great. Hard to beat fish straight out of the sea for dinner, but difficult choice between that and a nice medium rare venison back steak.
Mmmm venison steaks ! Yum
Fish easier to get for me though
Deer can be easy too. Just have to find the right spot to hunt - a bit like fishing.
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End of a other day in paradise- twin peaks called the devil’s stair case on the map but called the titties by our neighbours from the waiarapa !
They are a rough lot them from the rapa :D
The other chillybin occupants made up for this monsterQuote:
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Yesterday about 11.30 four of us plus the pack of two climbed up the grunt track (400m basically straight up with 3 fixed ropes along the way)Attachment 266785 Chetwoods the island middle distance.
Pack of two = Mary and Ginny sisters from different litters. Possum killers, weka enthusiasts and goat wranglers - they bailed up a billy goat
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So Neil and I shot out wide at 4pm for an evening fish - got out there 4.45 and flat as a pancake schools of kahawai that showed no interest in out lures. Fishing was slow and the snaps bar one were a no show. Headed back around 7.30 with 9 carrots a wee snapper and a JD caught on a soft bait ! All were in iced water in the bin so left them for the morning.Attachment 266788
Went up to the house and heres brad cooking a beef fillet - he’s a good bugger for an aussie
And the ladies had got creative and made eaton mess for desert !
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Bliss 😎
Doubtless Bay snapper. 1 drop with a slider, 20 seconds & this guy is on!
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Attachment 266917 Dropped one then got this one! first Marlin for my boat and second for me as a angler :)
Caught at 100m mark off Port Waikato on Thursday. First one for me. Two caught for the day, the other tagged. Good feed of snapper as well so a very productive day.
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Could be useful to some of you top of the south fellas.
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The C-state app is quite cool. Can see live weather from the buoy.
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Also has golden bay and bay of plenty buoy options but no weather info as yet. Can tap on any of the 4 things and get other stuff too.
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That TASCAM buoy is handily placed.
Just off the western edge of the mussel farm.[emoji106]
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Out early but back early too [emoji106]
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Nice run out into the bay this morning. Pretty dark, need a better torch [emoji41]
No trouble getting a feed.
Hand full of brim, couple of trevs and a gurnard. 20m just off the farm. No interest in either of the live baits tho
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South Island marlin! My lad and his mates out off West haven, they saw and caught one, the companion boat saw three landed one!
Fish of a lifetime for these guys!
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Brilliant result for your boy and his mates, well done all involved :thumbsup:
Woop woop woop !!!
Mark that in history
Only the second one I know of [emoji106][emoji106]
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Heya.. any of you guys know of website with accurate sea surface temperatures.
Looking for the magic 22 plus degrees on west side.
FishTrack on smartphone is the only free option as far as I know. It's a few days out of date, but good enough for me. There's a few good paid options. Water above 18 C is good for tuna.
That's bloody awesome well done guys!!:cool::cool::cool:Quote:
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They have been there a long time but the weather and access and coinciding with days of work and mates that are keen.....
Once again well done guys.
But may that bit of NZ coast remain the last frontier for as long as possible.
Best mate from work gave me the invite to come down for the Buller fishing comp.
Hit up @stingray no dice on a promise....Dad...other shit on....heck do I even bother going...I'm bloody recked need a couple of days sleep......
Up at 430 and pack/throw shit at the ute.
Get a pie and drink for breakfast at the Wakey Bakey and of down to Westport.
I like to drive and especially on empty roads at early hours but I was just bloody rooted so just short of Murch I pulled over to shut my eyes for 10min and see If I would sleep.
Nup fuck it off I went again.
Arrived at my hosts and loaded up the boat and off into the wild blue yonder.
Baited and dropped some cray pots, fished for blue cod got planned by big 2m greyboy sharks.
Got sick of loosing hooks and made a leader rig of 100p floors and live bait hooks and got more Gregory's and a pretty bloody decent blue cod.
Moved out wide to a pinical to try for Teatakihi and snapper....got red cod and my host got a bloody massive Gurnard!
We weighed in the Cod and Gurnard cleaned up an off to the club.....golf tournament....massive weekend for Wetport.
Up at 5 in the morning to go pull the pots....we got 12 or so keepers which was bloody great and went north to fish the sand/gravel for hopefully a big snapper.
Conditions were perfect...for sunburn!!! We were cooked from the day before and as the sun rose it was oily with a lazy swell and the sun rising directly astern.
It was punishing......I bloody hate suncream and I put it on my face and sunglasses (because it is impossible not to) 3 bloody times before 9am.
We also didn't bring any coffee or water so had to drink beer slightly earlier than optimum timing.
My host hugged the burly pot with a Ledger rig and slayed the Gurnard while I kept a strayline way out the back in the hope of a big snapper.
I landed lots of big kahawai and panni snaps...nothing big.
Weigh in was amazing.....I have never seen anything like it.
There might have been 50-60 people there and more prizes than anything I have seen in Nelson with hundreds of entries.
I won heavist blue cod and second Kahawai
My host won heaviest Gurnard and a boat owner spot prize.
What a wicked comp.
Out this morning to check the pots, limit of 18 for three of crays....literally fished for an hour and got 20 bloody good sized gurnard and threw back more.
What an awesome weekend!
I nearly didn't go I was that rooted but so glad I did.
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Nice effort VC and great haul. Good to get some reward for your efforts although for me forgetting the coffee would be a major :XD:
Those are some bloody good looking Gurnard
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I will have to get some braid on this Okuma gear and give it a go soon
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First one for my boat. Also, first Yellowfin. Had a great day of the Auckland west coast.
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Marlin both sides of the south island now !!!
And on a tuna lure too [emoji106]
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I see there has been a 60kg yellowfin landed from the rocks up East Cape too!
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Thought that must be what you were doing [emoji3][emoji106]
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Boosted out of Marahau at 6am this morning with the two boys and Dad to see if we could find a tuna.
Dropped a longline at 35m on the way out. I wasn't that keen. Thought we would get back to heads or sharked traces. Dad reckoned he had no snapper in the freezer so he won !
Popped in 5 tuna lures at about 40m. Lovely conditions out there today. Unreal blue water !
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Towed them about for 3hrs - saw nothing but penguins !!
Got back to the longline convinced that it would be stuffed due to length of time. Picked it up and bugger me no heads and only one trace with no hook.
12 fit & feisty snaps, 1 gurnard, 1 trevally and 1 rig. Filled the bin chocker !
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Dad was stoked ! No substitute for experience ah [emoji3]
Just beat the tide back to the ramp. 80km and no hits but I will do it again as soon possible.
Love it [emoji106]
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Few stories to tell, but the one that happened tonight was pretty darn cool,
VC pick me up we go out , let’s go up the coast …mmm ok , up the we had a general idea of spots, so splashed in…..swam about got a cray silt blew up couldn’t find my catch sack in the filth, bird in the hand surfaced boated the cray , VC had a solid mark on me so back down on the mark , current had blown off the silt there’s my catch sack…
Back to cray fishing , pulled my head out of a crack looked for the next rock to hunt and my heart and spinster joined together , not 5 meters away was a huge tail and a black n white body…..ahh well I’m not eaten carry on …that lasted 5 mins
Got to the boat VC says did you see the fucking orca …me yes …VC they were under the boat the were playing with the anchor rope …how close were they I ask …I could have stuck a stubbie down his blow hole says VC they were touching the boat …
So we had a we moment of how cool and how bloody nervous were we both ..got some crays had an experience of a life time …phones safely tucked away in the truck . FFS
Yeah I have seen Orca before but never like this!
They were surfacing alongside the boat and blowing....lifiting my anchor rope!...going under the boat and surfacing on the other side!
Literally rubbing the boat!
I figured they were trying to tell me my mate was over there and not doing well cos he was blowing bubbles but I have to say I got a bit nervous when the were lifting my anchor rope and rubbing the boat!
Started up ol faithful then the biggest one swam for Joe's bubbles and slapped his tail on the surface of the water then they were off.
What an experience! What a day to forget the phone ffs.
Second story is not mine to tell,
South Island marlin speared ….
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Took the Son for a quick fishy this morning....launching just after low it took a while to get out but managed to not touch bottom this time.
Dropped a longline in 34m at low went upstream and burly up.
We were pretty late and sun was well and truly full on the water by the time we were fishing.
Got some Gurnard and pesky small kahawai converted into bait...gave it 1.5 hours or so and pulled up lines.
A handful more Gurnard on longline and one decent snapper.
Headed in to just off peppin, still good current and burly...one big kahawai and an undersized cod.
Sun was punishing so we bugged out as soon as we had enough water to get on the trailer.
Scaled the snapper to smoke fillets and wings.
Gave a bucket of Gurnard to the neighbors.
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Stevens bay launch for me today. Low tide so hard sand.
Had a couple of mates on board today as the kids had other commitments.
Glorious morning. Moon up in the western sky and the glow of the rising sun in the east.
Dropped a line same place as last sunday (35m) Then out wide to see if any albacore had showed up on this side of the bay.
Plenty of searching....
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Nothing but stunning conditions...
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Long line saved us again. 10 good snaps. Mates went home with all bar one for our dinner [emoji106]
Still beats doing jobs at home [emoji3]
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Flounder drag with Dad and a mate this arvo....very weedy...went 4 channels...small kahawai busting up everywhere...34 flounder and one massive mullet.
Good arvo out.
Weather a bit average so snuck up to the mussel farms...sometimes just sometimes it all goes right
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Good effort there @stingrayQuote:
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Out early again today. Stunning morning.
Had the Scenic Eclipse II lit up like a christmas tree in the dark.
It cruised by us later on. Apparently on its way from Milford sound to Kaiterieri.
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Fishing was slow to start with the apposing light breeze and cranking tide making things tricky.
Eventually we got a few on board and in the bin.
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Ended up a good mixed bag with 5 species in total. Was almost 6 but had to release a couple of undersized kingies who interestingly both opted for the pilly on the bait runner so got a good tussle out of them.
Had flipper and his mates show up on the way home. We tried to shake them but they just followed us about.
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Another super day in the bay. Definitely better than a sleep in [emoji41]
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Hey Stingray- the hills in the background look to me like you might in the pelorus ? Or am I seeing things !Quote:
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Cheers
AMac
