Conditions were not what was predicted :( got a decent feed of sea perch & only one blue cod .
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Conditions were not what was predicted :( got a decent feed of sea perch & only one blue cod .
I have never had a weekend that good. Im in bed fully poked. Update tomorrow :thumbsup:
Fingers & toes crossed we can get out to the deep trench ( 60+ ks off canterbury ) . Target species big trumpeter . Getting Very excited
yeah I'll probably go for a paddle Board at first light and harl at the same time. Agree about the taste of Trumpeter.
@mikee has summoned me to get up at @veitnamcam o'clock to go sharking! After last weekends effort I'm packing extra tucker and tea. Can't wait to catch up with him and yarn his ear off ..poor bugger is in for a lonnnnnnng morning!
Well the morning was long but the company was brillient. We played "catch and release" with about 50+ red cod ( something not normally caught here, Same for a similar number of spiky dogs and a few baracutta as well. Only one edible leagal blue cod was nabbed by our guest fisher. Which was not retuned whilst being measured :D :D @Pengy
Bloody good day
The therapy session,
Mikee got us at sparrow fart to avoid the craziness at the Nelson ramp which went to plan, we were on the water and away as the madness was beginning. Headed down the coast towards Pepin island , set up camp ,hook lines ,burley and a cup of tea.
Sharks were straight into the action along with some bloody red cod, birds going hard around us then a pod a dolphins roared passed everything screamed fish.......and fish we did ..yarned up a storm was excellent therapy for us all!
Mikee did some intel and made some phone calls not much happening around, so we pulled the hook lines and looked back towards home ...Mikee the cunning bugger put us on some reef and my mate Sol pulled a keeper cod from the blue ...yehaa ...we ate lunch had a brew, sat , yarned soaked baits all was right with the world ...trolled some repalas home, snakes were hungry but the kings were not ..Mikee got us home ahead of the sea breeze turned howling gale ..
Gave the boat a rinse had a further yarn , packed up and away. A wonderful day just what myself and Sol needed bloke time talking bloke stuff , fishing & relaxing. A huge thank you Mikee for your hospitality and trying everything in your tackle box to get us on the fish, your endless paintence and great humour made for a absolutely wonderful day.
Big hopes for @Munsey to come through with some fishing stories of epic ness ....
Im off to Stewart Island for 10 days.
Just a chill out with my adult children and their partners coming.
Not really fishing seriously ( yeh right ).
Not really going diving much ( yeh right ).
And not really hunting seriously ( yeh right @223nut ).
But seriously going to relax and see what the Island has to offer.
Taking 2 packrafts and have a mate joining us with another packraft a little later. So looking forward to spending some time out on them in Patterson inlet.
I believe the beer is cheap over there and groceries are expensive.
Makes it sound like the perfect place to live off the land !
Venison in the backyard, paua on the way home from work without getting your shorts wet.... What's not to like? Ahhh the sandflies and usually the weather.
@akaroa1 almost worth bringing over water bottles not beer, been no rain for 4weeks+
Christchurch just had the driest November in 165 years I think.
BP where I am we were 500mm ahead of average yearly rainfall at end of October.
Then the tap got turned off and it hasn't rained alt all since.
So lets just get this straight then ..... you don't drink beer anymore ?
Trip report : 530 am launched mates boat at lyttelton . Destination Deep Trench 60 ks out wide . Sloppy seas slowed our journey , but we knew we where in for a cracker as fog flanked us both ways . Fishing was awsome , only one trumperter , but huge blue cod made up for there lack . Biggest blue cod on our boat 57 cm our companoin boat 61 cm ( there smallest fish was 50cm ) and 3 trumperter . We got 3 terriki . Photos of cod i dont think do them justice but here they are https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c61f170015.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...86f216064c.jpg
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Have pulled some good groper out of there in the past.
Yep a very good day, Harbourmaster was checking Nav Lights etc when we arrived at the ramp early morning. I think a few people were not that hapy to see him. And one poor sod managed to lose his very very new looking boat off the trailer whilst backing it down the ramp. All before 5am
looks like the snapper have gone off the bite in the bay though for now, water temp is 21.5 which is higher than usual for the time of year. Never seen so many red cod either
Red cod are abundant here at the moment . We got some good specimens at Okiwi the other week too. Shame they are crap eating
Quick trip out of the Manukau this morning for a 2hr fish. Got a couple of nice pannies
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Some good eating there.
Stabicraft?
Yep
Looked Like a Stabi floor :thumbsup:
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4acd363fa4.jpganyone seen this before? Gurnard fillet, skin side. Little seed like things.
Flesh Bourne parasite?
Out yesterday afternoon of Waitara, Taranaki, sea temps up over 20deg from 15.5 two weeks ago, snapper have spawned and moved in close enough, for me to get to them with my 14 foot tinny, fishing at 35m of the oil rig.
Been getting lots of gunuard of the beach, on the surf rods the last few weeks, yesterday was first time, I have really got on to snapper, had to drop down to one rod,
Caught biggest gunuard, I have ever seen, 57 cm in length, first five snapper were all over 50 cm, biggest at 63,
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No offence but @southernman are you a clean freak ? . They got to be the cleanest fish I've ever seen ;).
Nope, just the way it worked out, don't get much mess of snapper, esp if Iked and straight in salt ice slurry, ky I bleed over the side and put in the motor well, for ten minutes, I did have to pressure wash and scrub boat.
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The view from new office, and having to work and not go fishing.... not happy.....
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Up at 4am this morning and off to join the queues casting sticks for Kings at Popper Point Tauranga. 2 follows but no fish, no one got any so not fussed just an off day.
What a way to start the workday though!! Do it all again tomorrow :thumbsup:
The birthday bash ....yawn ....out of bed after a old man nap!
Up at VC a clock to day light ..does the sun even set anymore? Launched the boat and the hook line as the sun crested the hills ...
Epic day of fishing, VC again showed his strengths sharking hard out from spikies and chinamen to a great greyboy of 6 ft ...thought I had him on the ropes with an early if not somewhat deformed snapper only to be slaughtered once he got his second wind!
A few tasty carrots, barstard red cod and one particularly really barstard barracouta to end the day in a line tangle of CUT IT preportions ...cray bait you are you bloody filthy barstard!
Photos to follow when the head clears and the sunburn eases! A very happy getting older day to you VC! You are simply a good as barstard thank you again for every adventure we have shared.
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Good stuff !! :)
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Bloody VC caught the first horse when he was on the phone yarning to @Munsey then hooked the second whilst
Sending the photo of the first to everyone. We are still hunting for a legal kingi can not be far away now !