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I think they head deeper out in the bay to the warmer salteyer water, I dont have a thermometer but the estuary water at the mo is not much above freezing going by my hands and one wet gumboot :D.
Definitely when it is cold and fresh like this(fresh water on top of salt water) I do better with a net set way down a channel in quite deep (one or two meters) water where as a few weeks ago I would set as far up a channel as i could possibly get and most of my net on land to stay within the nets/channels rules.
Thats the end of the really good catches now but it will improve again if we get a spell of no rain/snow.
We'll it was fishing today, not tomorrow.....
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And even talked work as well. :)
Got out from Wanganui today. Lots of little snapper and a few other bits and pieces. The guys with bigger boats did well out wider by all accounts.
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Talking work is a punishable offence!
literally every bastard i can think of has been out in this mid week high except me!!!
Im almost glad it is going to be shit this weekend tho the wife is working as always and I have a trailer to build so I have a boat for snapper season.
Boat ownership ay:XD:
Unbelievably I think I might have been the only one to put a net out this morning.....maybe being as dark as the inside of a black cow on a dark night at low tide put everyone else off.
It was quite cool and calm come time to pick it up a few hours later.
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Got a couple of feeds worth.
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Two things about boats.
A mate of mine on OZ reckoned a boat brought you happiness two times-once when you buy it and second is when you sell it.
Boat also stands for "Bring Out Another Thousand".
keep catching those flounder....
Yep it's a well known fact that boat = "Bring Out Another Thousand".....tho these days even that would struggle to cover it.
Friday got to put out the net at smoko time and pick up after work......frosts and flounder don't go well together.
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Took Dad out this morning....neither of us could be arsed getting up early so it was 8 am at mine fishing by 9.
Tides were shit for what we were doing(shoulda been up at 4am but couldnt be arsed) but we went to target gurnard.
So mostly slack water fishing [emoji53]
Anyway we still did alright with dad's side of the boat getting the lions share....about time he made himself usefull lol.
Some big fat kahawai for the ol Moari lady next door.....last time I talked to her she asked for me to not gut them please....this was a surprise to me as I usually just send the kids around the neighborhood with fish.
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Apparently if you turn the gut inside out and give it a rinse and deepfri or boil it it is just like squid....have not tried it myself yet.
Couple of feeds of gurnad for dad and myself....drifting with a small soft bait was reasonably successful.
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Has anybody on here tried the cooking kahawai gut before?
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Amazing how much difference a few days of warmer weather makes to the catch.
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Those must be bloody good Flounders to wanna get wet for? You may need a psychologist!:O_O:
You are probably right Macca on both counts!
I dont like to leave net out for a whole night especially with the big tides, it gets full with weed and rolled up and damaged and all the fish turns to shit also.
I just remembered there were not one but FOUR bloody red cod of all things in my net..... Dont recall ever catching them in the estuary before.
Fishing today was unplanned. Breakfast, while leaving Mrs in bed, the boy says the weather looks good and water is flat - we should go fishing/boating. I say that's a good idea, and let's eat breakfast.
Fast forward, shopping and now boat in water. Kids drive, all really good.
Daughter caught a few (3+) snapper but no keepers. Wife caught a eel - first for me up here.
Anyway, a great afternoon on the water with the kids and Mrs. (My 5 yo can drive the boat better than the Mrs, it pisses the Mrs hugely, and is a proud point for me! :) )
Got out of okiwi, large swell but cod were on the bite. Chased the carrots but the spikies were hard on the bite, so home early.
My boy can drive both boats ok but he is not big enough to pull start the 8hp yet,knows "kick it ahead" and "Back it up" while I deploy a long-line but isn't at the drive it on the trailer stage yet....maybe in a year or so when he can see over the screen;).
I think it is important to train up your kids to be able to drive a boat and find there way back/call for help as early as possible should SHTF.
Excellent @stingray. Good to hear you've had a break from hockey.
Took the dingy to work so I could set the net straight after work....2.5 hours later and picked it up for 8 nice flounders.
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It was bloody cold on the wet hands fangin back in by gps and headlamp.
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My wife has been promoted to champion chinaman catcher,she managed 4 and a pick handle today.
Nice day out but.scraped the ice off the windows.
Took the Short Arse Smart Barstard...out for a fish today! He must have enjoyed the clam seas, because instead of burbing, farting and losing conscious then chucking legal fish over the side! He was giving me shit from the start to the finish! Calling my (light weightbelt) a FBSD (fat barstard sinking device), catching fish bigger than me and crowing about it! Then scorning me when he asked what kind of shark I had caught when I replied not a spikie mate it was a sharkie shark! He saved up this info and when we got home consulted the fish chart and annoucies gleefully "mate they don't have sharkie sharks on here ...you've discovered a new species"
I should have let the sharkie shark bite the SASB and then he would know what kind of bloody shaaaaark it was! Anyway a great day out heaps of laughs, bugger all fish, shit vis!
Few random photos ..these ones are of the lagoon that has being closed off to the sea for as long as I can rember now after the storms a few months back it's got a inlet channel so we went for a poke about!
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Had a great day out
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Livies caught, now picking up crew (bloody late start people.....)
Good luck.
Forcast shit here
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But a little boat waits.
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1s allround Cam. Must be quite foul alright