Almost certainly....my late uncle used to service liferafts among other things.
Flares go out of date but it is highly unlikely they wont work.
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Sweet worth knowing :)
Those rocket flares are a bit pricey
Got the 5th one to stick on my green popper this morning, tagged and sent home
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Any one used Delaware recently ? No dramas launching?
Sure have and told all my fishing mates about it
Out from stevens bay this morning to the mussel farm. Always a sweet spot to launch at low tide as the sand is hard as.
People only have trouble there at high tide when their wheels are on the soft sand [emoji6]
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Didn't bother with the set line, just had a bit of fun with the rods. Ended up with a few kahawai for the smoker. One nice gurnard and a few small brim for tea. Plenty of them about - let heaps go.
A good end to the school holidays for the boys [emoji106]
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Had lovely morning out of Delaware launched on the low tide and shot out to 35 meters and got 3 snapper around 10lb then went back into the carrot patch and got 18 good gurnard then back to the trailer for the high tide at 12
A neighbour dropped off some Okaparu Kingfish yesterday – it was so good!
Took the dog for a walk down a nearby street track this morning and got a rat – then off to Sulphur Point ramps via Countdown for Muscles and a bait shop for Pilchards
We were going to take a run out to Pudney to try for some Terakihi and Kings – but a Guy at the baitshop reckoned Okaparu was better
Sea was fabulous – tried a few parts of the Okaparu reef structures but just small snapper – only one short flash of a few Kingfish – but they didn’t like our bait or jigging rigs
So the Bay of Empty once again – but enjoyable conditions – How did you get that Kingfish @Gibo - we need someone to show us how to catch BOP fish
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I use casting lures mate. Poppers and stickbaits. I also do a fair bit of jigging in deeper waters say 40m plus. If you catch mackerel or small kahawai just throw a hook through their back and send them over, kingis cant resist a good livey. Not into it myself unless its a skippy for a marlin, like the challenge of getting them on a lure myself
Okaparu reef is good for kingis. So is Pudney, brewis and plate
Sunday session, with VC and VC jnr , they accommodated my afternoon sport to include the fishing ...new channels different tides...first drag brought in 6 solid flats , put a couple of shorts back ,
I called go up the channel so we did , felt fish banging but nothing snagged .
Upped camp , moved channels current pushed saw mullet or small Kahawai hitting the drag and exploding back out and away .....Smaller tides saw less flood , time ran out and so we took a chance to drop fish off to family ..was a wonderful thing to be part of a family sharing fish with family , yarns laughter and all those great things ...tide flooded , we sailed home ..said our good byes ..shook the pee out of my wet suit . Home hot shower ..rang mum told her we have a feed of fresh flats for her and da , ..priceless ..cheers VC and Xavier you guys are million dollar men