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I know the feeling @veitnamcam Attachment 95203. Still got a good feed tho.Attachment 95204:cool: This was Saturdays crew.Attachment 95205
They are some very decent looking blues! :thumbsup:
Yep, a real perk for the day. Never really get many blue cod up this way. One of my favourite eaters, just about as good as carrots. :thumbsup:
You are all grown up now Beaker (well as much as you are ever going to be) so you are allowed another freezer if you want one. Ha ha ha ha better check with the boss though.
@Beaker its a must to have a bait freezer, its like having a beer fridge. I keep all my skippy frames and old bait, when I have a reasonable amount in the freezer out comes the burly mincer. I have a regular supply of burly and bait, pipis frozen in punnets, bait fish and a bag of salt flake ice. Saves stopping on the way.:thumbsup:
Had this guy pull up inside of me while fishing. Attachment 95300. Thought it might of been @veitnamcam in a new tinny.:pacman:
Probably @Dorkus pinging your spots :D
Probably @Dorkus pinging your spots :D
The bigger one is bait burly and ice the smaller one is human food. Used to be the other way around but priorities and stuff.[emoji1] https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ae154f90ad.jpg
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Yeah hard bro, we sometimes go for bait only missions mainly for skippies though. Love coming home with 50+ knowing they are over $10 each from the shop :thumbsup:
We also keep all our Kahawai, Mackerel and Trevally for the bait freezer (some trevs make it into sashimi)
This one just sits here empty so I have somwhere to put a heap of snapper or whatever till I can get a chance to fillet them.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...90c29e51a0.jpg
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Day 3 of perfect weather, no work and no fishing:XD:
Boats all go but Im off work with a crook shoulder and I dont want to make it worse man handling my boats,Can still hold a rod tho:thumbsup:
Who wants to take me fishing?
I would but im in Havelock today
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Looks like he has good technique.
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Released a lot of smaller grunters and more than a few little sharks,no chinamen and no spikey bastards.13.5° gentle northerly.
Fished through the low.
One spotty. The boy got tired of the lure and went to bait. I lost a lure but also caught someone else's snagged rigand gained a clip on sinker.
@stingray turned up for a yarn and some other keen as kids. One got snagged and broken off a few times,naturally the fish had a mask snorkle and suit in his wagon and he offered it to the kid who swam out to unsnag his line.
He got it off and scored my lure I had lost 20min before![emoji41]
Good keen kids.
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Secret if fishing there is use f big baits. Too many use such small baits around there and get nothing. Use big baits and you hook something that pull string. Might be a ray, but have caught conger eels, three different types of rays there, snapper, big kahawai , been spooled on 10kg twice where run hasnt look like stopping.
them trout better watch out as the good Mrs and I are after a few this coming weekend.....
no fear of that as we "pot fishers" ...this current looney tune will play out long before she has whiped out anything.....other than maybe kea or kaka.
Finally Dad took mercy on me and took me out,forgot his chillybin an bait and burly.
Fortunately I had plenty of all of those.
Bit of a steam from Nelson threw one of those barstard little swell/chop combos.
Old bloke dropped the long line out fairly deep.
Burleyed up large in good current and caught nothing for a while then a shark each...pulled up longline for 1 shark and no baits at all so went shallow to spotx.
Dad drops a line in and I sort the burly then as I am baiting up I see his rod getting bites"oi ya rods getting bites" I say as he was pissing about doing something else and he grabs the rod.
It didn't do much for a start and we both thought a ray or a big rig as the weight was obvious......then it started going sideways a bit and we thought oh no its a snake.
Then it decided to piss off rapidly with big nods and peeling line! Each time he got him about halfway up he would go on another big run.....I got the net.
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Bloody nice fish to start the season @ 19.5-20p scales were bouncing a bit.
A good feed or 2 of gurnard and one Terry later we pulled the pin as the tide died off.
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Bloody good fish there VC. I had a good day too. Back out tomorrow, I've been given a fish order. Always guaranteed to kill a day!
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Went for a look out from Mot this morning with dad. Didn't have long due to other commitments so just snooped around in the shallows.
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Didn't locate any brimbos but its carrots for tea. [emoji106]
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Was a massive pod of dolfin out round the spat farm yesterday, we went spatfarm, 30m line,off bark bay,off split apple rock.
Very sharky and lots of cuda in every spot we tried but got a feed of carrots and kahawai. no snaps.
Mrs caught this guy over the weekend. All healed over and obviously not stopping him........well until we ate him :D
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That's my mate John Gibo
John Dor missing the last bit;)
Got out Saturday for a fish... @stingray txt in the morning with some lame excuse about being too crook to come fishing....at least I had the boy to help me.
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It was one of those days where I seemed to catch the only decent fish which ment the boy got bored with catching small kahawai so we didnt stay long.
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A couple of XL gurnard in there one took a whole kahawai fillet on the strayline!
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The tax men turned up but didnt claim too much gear.
What do you South African and Australian guys do with all the worm parasites in them?....I just use them for bait.
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Used to bait longlines with them,good snapper bait,headed and gutted@$6 a box from Happy.early 70s but.
Oi :yuush: I'll have you know that the beer was free and well...... I love free beer and many differnt varieties to try so I had a happy hunting ground until 12pm when shewho, stuffed me in a taxi and took us home. 530am came round way to bloody fast and some barstard had poured sand down me throat and pissed in me eyes! I must have being very well behave because shewho took pity and cooked me up a hell breeky , then put me to work in the garden! Suffer I did ...fish I did not .
great to see fish in the bin ...no more free beers for me!
Here's an update from my side of the bay....
Dad and his mate spent several hours in the boat today out in front of mot/kina. Set and reset long line aswell as rod fishing - still no snaps.
My brother has however caught several in the last week sufcasting off his favourite beach (Marahau area).
Looking back in my diary, we have had consistent snapper catches in front of Mot last two years from the second half of oct onwards. [emoji106]
I just gotta do less work !!!
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Great info thank you!