Didnt weigh it sorry.....was about 1m long.
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Think I'll be out tomorrow after my night shift. It'll be a late start for me, but have to make the most of a little settled weather before it all goes to shit again. At least everyone has stopped moaning about the "drought" and the "heat".
I went, I caught snapper. I came home :thumbsup:
Bloody kahawai were all over it though. One jig, two fish!
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Good day yesterday, out for 3hours and caught my 7 snapper plus heaps of horse Kahawai which all bar one for dog food went back.Swell been around for a while now so still fa bit lumpy out at 40meter mark, the upside was good SUP surf on the bar
Was into big blue at lunch today (floggers were closed monday :D) to stock up on some stuff for the forum trip.
End result = have entered(thanks wife) myself and my son into our first ever fishing competition!....and will use all I bought to stock up :thumbsup:
No doubt all fish catching ability will disappear now :yaeh am not durnk:
For snapper
Ledger rig+ stray-line is my go to....depends on weather/tide sometimes stralyline is not possible with wind against tide etc, sometimes go heavy weight with free floating rig from sinker imitating a set-line but not often....I am an active fisher preferring to be in contact with my hook at all times.
If its the one on the 17th, i rekon those one day ones are good vc. It puts everyone in a similar area on same day so same conditions. Often no real advantage big boat or small.
Results in a more even playing field than the multiple day ones where folk are spread over a wider area etc.
Good fun for the kids too and if you enter enough of them you end up winning something (spot or otherwise) that covers the entry for a few more.
Good luck !!
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Haha sweet. I just got a few entry's for that one yesterday too, me, bro and 2 kids. I can't do the one on the 17th as am working that weekend. Will keep a look out for ya on sun at rsa
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The one on the 17th is in nelson its called the snapper cup i think it is run by the dawnbreakers club.
Check out that bigblue facebook page i saw an add on there for it a while ago.
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Look for the guy with a bandage on his wrist... I reckon it's RSI [emoji16]
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I don't have facebook either but for some reason when i google big blue dive and fish on my phone it lets me see their facebook page. Not sure why it must be the way they have it set up.
Will track you down on sunday for sure. As R93 says you should be easy to see with that bandaged up arm [emoji3]
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Taking a mate out friday after work....he is under strict instructions not to catch a bigger snapper than me!
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Weather awesome fishing shit....not were they were thats for sure.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...a0f6745b7c.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c7efcdac31.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...b9a7d17ff0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...8708cb6561.jpg
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She was pretty hard to get up this morning when the alarm went off thats for sure.
Boy woken boat stuff loaded and out of the shed and we were off.....A little late for ideal launching but we made do.
First spot of the boys choice we sat for 40 min or an hour with the hell burly trail and no bites....up gear and off closer to the area and depth I planned to fish.
How about here he piped up.....was as good as anywhere I figured so a ledger and strayline each were deployed along with shit tonnes of burly.....think Matt Watson with the chipper but all pre chipped[emoji108]
Well shit after over an hour of epic burly trail and no bites at all I was wondering what I had done to deserve this when finally the sealice went to bed and we got a short bite time.
Boy first with a solid snapper on a Terraki rig....he wanted me to get it in as it kept taking any line he got in but I told him it will get tired first just wind it in when you can and after 5 min or so he had a new pb
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Next up he had a fish on and his strayline took off as well so I had to grab it honest!
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Another nice snap on my softbait rod/reel set as a strayline.
Some gurnards,dropped Kahawai and in a matter of minutes the chilly bin looked not bad at all.
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Then just like that the bite stopped and we sat in the rain for a while waiting for tide....well I did my son made a nest up under what little bow my boat has and waited it out till home time....1pm I had had enough and we headed for home.
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Howd you get on today @kukuwai ?
Sounds very similar to you. We left in the dark, fished 1st spot (28m) couldn't get a bite despite 4 flashers and 2 straylines out with heaps of burly.
Moved to 35m. SW wasn't awesome out there however the fishing improved but it started with grey boys and sea monsters [emoji3].
Then a couple of nice snaps 12 and 9 pd. Heaps of cod we ended up with our limit on those + a couple of gurnard. Back in at 1pm.
I looked at tascam this arvo at about 3 and there was only 1knt out there so would have been flat this arvo. Reckon we might get wet in the morning tho.
Never saw a kahawai.
Well done to your young fella with his new pb. Plenty of adults would be happy with that fish.[emoji3]
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Yea i cant remember ever getting that many out there b4 but they make for a bloody tasty dinner. [emoji3]
We got heaps of undersize ones too but reckon only 1/2 them probably make it back to the bottom.
They have to get past all those undersize kingis !!!
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Well the boy has something to talk about in the playground at school now.
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Some cheap kings went at auction one good size bugger went for 10 or 15 bucks!
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Also was nice to meet @kukuwai and family [emoji41]
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Likewise VC great to meet you guys also. Not surprised to hear those creeks were up on your way home, its still pissing down over here !!
Dinner was delicious !!
Think its the first time we have ever had john dory and groper ( courtesy of dad, brought at the fish auction for $25 ) on the BBQ at the same time.
@Gibo we have decided your theory about the john dory may be right as there was a small but whole mackeral in its throat when we filleted it.
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Likewise VC great to meet you guys also. Not surprised to hear those creeks were up on your way home, its still pissing down over here !!
Dinner was delicious !!
Think its the first time we have ever had john dory and groper ( courtesy of dad, brought at the fish auction for $25 ) on the BBQ at the same time.
@Gibo we have decided your theory about the john dory may be right as there was a small but whole mackeral in its throat when we filleted it.
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Im full frothing for a weekend of marlin and BIG kingis!! Mayor, to Rangas, to White, to Waihau and back :thumbsup:
Ha ha might even enter the nationals, need to thrash the Mt club ;)
Had to laugh off fishing out wide for Tuna , got a bit lumpy . Managed Limit of cod & a couple of terriki back in close . https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5e0fa64701.jpg
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Took my dad out in my boat Sunday.....not enough water to get his out at applicable times..... as it was I was scraping my keel getting out for about 200m.
Had wanted to get out to big snapper spot but she was a bit lumpy and forcast to turn to shit after lunch so the ol man wasnt too keen in my little boat so we stayed in close and tried to poach @madjon spot but just got absoulty hammered by small kahawai....it was impossible to catch anything else.
3 burly bombs later got the shits and moved out a bit but not far ....another big burly bomb for a couple of mackerel and small Kahawai had got the shits and was winding stuff up to head in close for pannies when finally I caught a half decent snap......so another burly was deployed and more time and bait wasted...headed in tight to a old spot on peppin and got onto the pannies and a few gurnard and some undersize cod with no burly but lots of pilly chunks being biffed over around the top of the tide.
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I seen ya coming back when I was heading the other way :D