Wow :cool:...now your going to tell me it was lure caught eh ! simply a fantastic fish ..very well done !Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
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Wow :cool:...now your going to tell me it was lure caught eh ! simply a fantastic fish ..very well done !Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Haha. No, not a lure but another technique I have mentioned before. I can't take any of the credit for catching it though. I wasn't even on the boat. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by stingray
Love the honesty , love seeing those fish , only ever eaten two fresh out of the sea ...simply delicious!
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Need to put fish in bin so they don't get trodden on.
Well firstly I'd like to say thanks to the primary school teachers for going on strike today as that led to us having an EPIC morning.
Home school started early....
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Boat on the water and out a bit deeper than some of the recent trips. (20m) Dropped the long line, anchored up and Olly and I deployed a flasher rig and a stray line each.
After a few minutes my flasher got hit hard and that saw me connected to a nice size fish. There was a strong current at the time and the fish was using it to its advantage keeping me occupied.
Next minute my stray line starts screaming. "Grab it mate" i said to Olly "and go easy its only light gear"
To his credit he played it really well, showed a lot of patience especially with the fish going on some scorching runs!
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Not sure how long it took to get it to the boat, felt like ages. Olly was very quiet the whole time except when he saw it and then it was "holy shit dad its massive, oh my god im shaking so much, get it in the net dad, get it in the net!"
It was a thumper!
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Dad met us at the ramp when we got back and took it to his mates shop to get it weighted on his digital scales. Here's the printout, funny to see that if it was infact tomato and bacon sausages it would have been $132 worth[emoji23]
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His day wasn't over though not long afterward he landed another cracker on his own strayline. We picked up the longline and thankfully it only had 1 snapper on it.
4 fish and I couldn't shut the lid on my chilli bin, 9am and we were on our way back in.
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There was a fair amount off hooting and hollering on the way back. I couldnt hear it all over the motor noise but something along the lines of "I cant believe ive just caught a 20 pound snapper!"
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Here is the 4 fish. Fom left to right on the chilli bin 16 Lb,15 Lb and 14 Lb.
Amazing!! [emoji106]
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Wow what a session!! Give the boy a pat on the back from me mate!! Cracker fish!
Fantastic![emoji41]Quote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
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Looking forward to a few days at Ohope beach with the family and the surf set. Might even have a go at a flounder up the Ohiwa and even a crack at a kingi off the rocks at the western end of the beach.
Kukuwai....squid bait?.... ...we use a variety of baits ,different poles just to see how the are biting and at what.... but squid,they all bite
Totally agree, a variety of baits is good and there is always squid on the boat[emoji106].Quote:
Originally Posted by A330driver
We were using whole pillies on our straylines yesterday. Just gota remember to give them time to eat it properly before engaging the drag [emoji6]
Down here we have a very healthy gurnard fishery in the bay and they are a desirable, tasty bycatch when targeting snapper but not big squid eaters.
These days when we are dropping long lines they always have some trevelly or salted mac along with squid on them.
These are the hooks that pick up the gurnard. [emoji41]
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I find the snapper seem to go off the squid after spawn too.Quote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
I never leave without pilchards.
Salted mackerel,squid,kahawai are my fave longline baits tho the sharks cannot resist squid [emoji31]
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I got out yesterday for some home schooling also.
A couple of other commitments ment we didnt get on the water and fishing till after 9am which wasnt ideal. 13m for shark city bugged out deeper to 24m going on some recent intel.....turned out shit....dunno why I listen to that git.[emoji16]
A few less sharks, Dad got a nice snapper around 15p on the strayline and we thought we were in with a chance but alas it was still pretty shit and the wind was picking up.
Finally I snagged a nice eater of around 10-12p on a slow jig @Shearer.
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Then it really turned to shit and we headed in to pick up our longline full of spiky dogs and bitten off traces.
Ah well Dad got a feed and I did enjoy that fish on 10p gear tho the boy was a bit pissed he only caught sharks.
Probably go out in the morning with the kids and hopefully get onto some fish before the girl gets sea sick.
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Nice fish VC, It is totally amazing they actually eat that metal stuff [emoji38]Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
I'm with you 100% - never leave home without pillies [emoji106]
Didn't have any bitten off traces yesterday but there was one of these !!!
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Think I might need to replace a few hooks [emoji848]
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Might see you out there, My parents are up and want to go fishing so boat trailer registered and warranted and that clunking noise is my wallet after 120l fuel upQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Hope fish play ball
Jeepers 120l I doubt I will see you unless I launch at French pass!Quote:
Originally Posted by mikee
Il be dingy spot for not long but early, got the girl OB and she get sea sick...will have phone of course.
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Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Hey @Gibo the family used to go to Ohope beach every year till 85 we then headed to the far north.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Used to get some good surf casting at that river mouth south of Ohope. Where I nearly stepped on a string ray the size of a mini :O_O: while wading back and forward to cast. It left when the tired did Dad and I must have been missing it by feet.
We left because the trawlers used to come in at night and run up and down in front of the beach, in the morning there would be snapper carcasses all over the sand:TT TT:
But a great place for a family to Holiday:thumbsup: hope you have a good time away. Tight lines
bloody epicQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Got the kids out for a quick fish this morning to check out my dingy spot.......shit it was slow....just no current at all....burly floating up to the boat.....Daughter caught a brim boy got some kahawai and I got a big red on the strayline....cod that is [emoji849]
Heaps of boats out which of course means some fuckwits too.
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Getting ready for 1st sea trial/fishing trip
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We got up at not quite "stupid "oClock" and commenced the battle of the boat ramp, 12 boats lined up ahead of us to launch.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
We had much the same further out. Longlines deployed and fished for couple hours. Caught 3 gurnard on the rods, then 3 baracoutta then I got 5ft shark (Greyboy) on a strayline, which I could have kept cause we like eating shark but he wasnt really doing any harm so we let him go with a small piece of new jewelery in his lip.
Picked up long lines and managed 10 or so small gurnard, 30cms or so (all went back too small for decent fillet) and a couple of chinamen, second line had a tangle of @stingray proportions weights dragged together and hooks all in a ball of poo, cuplret was a 40lb kingfish which is going in the smoker shortly.
Fishing was really hard but there were schools of krill everywhere so thick you could walk on them, barrcouta were full to bursting with them same for the 3 gurnard we kept and also the kingfish. I wonder if all the fish in the bay were just too full to bite ??
Took 1 hour queuing at the ramp to get boat on trailer, madness everywhere witness frayed tempers and such, very entertaining
Looks like the ideal weapon for the west coast @Smiddy. Good luck, make sure you let us all know how you get on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smiddy
@mikee sounds like a nice kingi, I hope your folks enjoyed their day on the water. Bugger about the snapper I was really hoping you would wack a few good ones.
@veitnamcam when i saw the state of the mot boat ramp this morning i was really thinking that instead of us posting pictures of nice snapper we should wack up shots of carpet sharks and barracuda.[emoji41]
In some ways I'm glad to hear you fellas say it was a slow day. Especially with all those boats out. Hopefully it might put a few of the not so dedicated ones off [emoji106]
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quite honestly I'm fearing the XMAS mad rush when all the holiday makers turn up with their boats as well. Stupid O'clock is getting earlier and earlier just to be able to park your car within 500m of the rampQuote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
There is no doubt that we need more non tidal ramps in this bay. It honestly seems like every second person has a boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikee
Unfortunately some of them also seem to have no manners!! All you can do is smile [emoji3]
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I'm on nights this weekend :oh noes: and the sea is flat :thumbsup: - some fish are going to have to die tomorrow.
Definitely need more ramps and more manners.Quote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
I was verbally threatened today for politely suggesting said fuckwit probably shouldnt drop his ankor right in the middle of my longline.....big tough guy routine....his mates must have been impressed threatening a guy taking two kids fishing[emoji16]
All the gear and no fuck8ng idea.
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You really want to see people lose there rag at a boat ramp?
Turn up with score cards:XD:
My brother and I used to do this when on holiday bloody funny :ORLY: We where just kids mucking about;)
Some really never saw the funny side even had one wanker threatened us. Another boat told him to fuck off and leave us alone.:thumbsup: he got a 10.
We waited till nobbys boat went round the corner then dog shit happened to turn up under his door handle:P
I wasn't there when he came back but the old man was:) he didn't know what we had been up to and described the scene as the guys mate held the boat and nob jokey ran up the road to collect car. Nasty boat ramp that if you got a side swell, which was just starting to kick up. No time to wipe shit off of a hand:sick: he was only driving a falcon so no worries ah, Dad said the air turned blue with this nob trying to reverse (-4 score) he got it on in the end.
Never saw him again wonder why?
Ps if it was one of you fallas who ended up this way hope your manners have improved along with your sense of humour and taste in cars!
But I don't think sooooo:P
Enjoy the fishing guys be polite to those around you and if all else fails score cards at the boat ramp!
Great day out of Raglan today. Binned up in a hour and a half on good snapper in 52 metres. Then managed a couple of nice kingis on the jigs.
Chur Bay.😎😎
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Man that’s shark glass flat:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chur Bay
@kukuwai @mikee I swung past the Nelson ramp this morning around 10 am and there was no trailers on the road and at least 10 spare trailer parks inside!
Took dog down back beach....couldnt see a single boat in close on rabbit from this end vs Sat boats everywhere.
Talked to one guy at the washdown...he had got a feed at 15m but nothing on the rods.
It’s something when you get a bit angsty because you don’t catch a fish as soon as the lure hits the water! It took a few winds of the reel on the first cast this morning. 5 snapper on microjigs, 1 trolling bibbed lure. 3 kept. Nothing huge, just nice fat pannies. Another very short fishing trip. Went and picked the family up and barbecued a snapper on the beach.Quote:
Originally Posted by MightyBoosh
Ha, the snapper probably felt alot safer out there today. Sure would have been a lot less boat noise [emoji106]Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
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I have been wondering exactly what these were. Anyone whos been out fishing in Tasman bay lately will have seen them.
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It seems they are called squat lobster [emoji106]
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Would have been a great evening tonight for a fish but alas Dad duty called.
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Bit of fun this morning
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Are you sure its not a nautalis?Quote:
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That's a good guess Gibo.Quote:
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To be honest @Gibo when i first saw them I thought i better be careful or i might get in trouble for having undersize crayfish on my boat [emoji849]Quote:
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