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One free jumper, one huge whale and heaps of missing beer for us. Few kingis at white. Mates ended up 9-8-6 in three days at Waihau
Dont know, we just had empty bottles
took out my mate who just got his diving ticket on sunday 3 knot northerly wind rubber baited outside Marsden Point from the 4 post beacon got our snapper limit in 45 minutes drifting down Ruakaka beach then went out by the old woman and threw my mate over board to look for a cray he got 5 in 30 minutes we put 3 back 1 each is all needed for a feed with the fish and 20 scollops each we got inside the Whangarei harbor on the way back to the boat ramp all in all a very relaxing day till i got home to find the neighbours mad cows running around in my bush so went and rounded them up all 3 of them but 1 of them was not keen on leaving and lined me up i slipped trying to get out of the way and got bowled down a steep bank a tree broke my fall but bruised the snot out of 3 my ribs so my day in paradise turned to shit!!
I actually think dredgeing on certain bottom types is fine maybe even benificial.....the one place left in tasman bay with scollops is was and has been relentlessly dredged and its the only place that still has them in any numbers.
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Dredged this beauty up outa Tauranga on Sunday. Tagged n released.Attachment 83086
Nice fish Beeman and D you deserved it in the seas you had to brave.
What a cracker !!!! looks like a mill pond to , we are biding our time down here the kingy,s turned up in bluff this year...only a matter of time :thumbsup:
The day they caught was good the next day it was about 3 meter swell.
Stuck at work today :oh noes: fishing tomorrow :thumbsup:
Having a dither about whether to go offshore for game fish, weather certainly looks good enough, or play it safe and go for snapper.
Another 50 points for the club, by catch on a marlin lure.Attachment 83363
Yep finished Saturday night, 500 points for the club. All good fun, seen some new Islands n motored hundreds of miles.
Picked up 6 of these to eat on the way back on SaturdayAttachment 83392
Yeah Sarvo, heading in from White Island, and no we don't shoot elephants with 22s. :P
Yep had a great 3 days of motiti and mayor with a couple of kingis dealt to with spears and a few more on live bait.
Pretty exciting as myself been a kingi virgin!
We had Friday sat and sun.
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After a fantastic time last weekend at the top of the south forum fishing trip this morning should have seen me struggling back to the truck with a pack full of veni but best laid plans and all that....slept in then thought I should work on my boats but using them seemed more fun ,especially with a flat sea and no wind.
Waited round for another young fella to be dropped off and we were on the water at midday in the punishing sun and humidity......boys wanted to target big snaps rather than pannies so into the deep we went.
I could have filled 10 firewood trucks and a couple of apple bins with all the debris from 20-30m.... @kukuwai should keep all his rubbish over his side of the bay [emoji16]
Was slow starting at the top of the tide with a few spikys and kahawai and rat kings then finally some snaps turned up.
Young fellas first snap.
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Mini me with a weird look on his face.
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We did ok considering time of day for a couple hours then it was time to pull the longline in for....lots of spiky dogs...one nice snap and one gurnard....
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Boosted it for the bar I thought I was running late with a deck full of spikys.....big tides and shit it was standing up on the bar! Snuck round the worst of it without stuffing the bow in and we were in to deal to spikeys and gut the rest of the fish.
All in all not bad for a couple of hours in the middle of the day.
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we walked the dogs out Delaware Bay tonight again. Flat calm. Would have been a good evening out on the water. 2 boats went out........just
Tide was so low it was only knee deep across the inlet, several rays were breaking the surface on their way into the estuary, dogs were keen to investigate bit not me :D
Yep theres some big fuckers there just ask Joe!
In my haste not to be late I was about 1/2 hour early and the current running out with the lazy swell running in meant big standing pressure waves around 2m high but only 3-4m apart with lots of current.....the kind of thing that sinks little boats like mine!
I have not seen it like that before and as you know I have been out of there a couple of times.
I had enough water just to sneak around the worst of it but got air all the same.
The bar/mouth and channel have changed after the storm surge and if this is the new normal then caution for all.
Today from all reports things were awesome out in the bay. Mate caught 12 snapper, biggest 20lb/ My other mate who went out same time but fished in a kayaka beat him with a 22lber. Weighting them after they were in a couple of guys in a double canoe came in with a 17lber and a good kingfish and some other boat had a good haul of snapper up to 15lb. Seems like the big ones were out there in numbers today and not too deep
@VC don't worry mate there's still shitloads if firewood over this side of the bay too [emoji3]
Every beach, sandspit and bay looks like this. No doubt these big tides will get it all floating again !!
Sad thing I've noticed over the last couple of days is the thousands of dead cockles washing up on the tide line.
All the tidal flats have a layer of sediment over them in places an inch or so deep. I'm no expert but I'm picking that's got something to do with it.
Well done to all on the fishing front. I can't wait to get back out there. Too much work bloody tourists have no respect for weekends [emoji3]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6a9675c3a4.jpg
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That is a real shame! the cockle beds over there were/are? a fantastic resource.....far better than any over this side of the bay.
That sediment run off from Forestry/Farming and subdivision has a lot to answer for in Tasman bay :oh noes: Golden bay is heading the same way just slower.
Night time marlin
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Awesome!
Good one, be no fishing here the rivers are dirty.
Was buzzy as. Full blood red sunset with lightning! Pissed as too :yaeh am not durnk:
Too much @Gibo.
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Nice one Gibo, on a livie was it. :thumbsup: