Its a stabicraft 1410, with a two stroke 30hp yamaha.(4 years old) with a few modifications.
I Love it, its an awsome wee machine [emoji106]
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Its a stabicraft 1410, with a two stroke 30hp yamaha.(4 years old) with a few modifications.
I Love it, its an awsome wee machine [emoji106]
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Had a quick fish out of Delaware at the 35 meter mark got 4 on rods and 2 on setline ,lots of big fat kahawai around at the moment too and the odd rat kingi ,back at the trailer by ten then home
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Heaps of small carrots,shitloads of small Kahawai.The boss even had a rather large shark which released itself.no snaps or brim.
Yeah I caught quiet a few small ones on the micro jigs ,only managed 2 reasonable ones worth taking
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Home form epic weekend of weather fit for fisherman ! Look like you guys have had a hell run also! Down Okiwi sat afternoon after a xmas work do Friday night! Sun and more sun with bugger all breeze saw VC and me cooking. Ran up to Soucis dropped a hook line at 100 ft and then with great weather ran out wide to 40 meter mark ..Dropped the other hook line and set to fishing ...well we slayed ...spikies more spikies a horse Kaiwhai that did a great job of burley pot VC line me the works ...lovely ...so after a couple hours of that we pulled the hook lines, very few small carrots , a half eaten spikie still twitching and bleeding two hooks later a large seven giller!
Shot over to the islands dropped a hookline fished cooked a bit more then pulled hookline to 12 beautiful carrots. Home to the Crib caught up with family shared yarns and beer made a plan of epic ness! Bed ....up at bloody early VC sorted a mean as feed ..in boat and off to the pass for kingi's ...
Arrived to find a number of boats of all sizes already plying the waters ...no one catching the only kingi's we could see on the sounder we're hard up against the bank in very shallow water ...my new shinny kit did great except the operator was pretty average 3 drops 3 snags ...got them all free thanks to our skippers skill and a bit of luck...still no kingi's ...last week it was so easy this week it was pretty grim indeed ..no one catching ...
Tired for a cod on another bit of reef nothing happening there either ...then as we steamed back towards the pass VC spies on the sounder a school of bait ...down with the jigs with kingi's following them to the surface ...down again whack both hooked up on small but very welcome fish ...boated them measured my one stretched to the pass mark so we binned it ...then we went back to find the school which like a fart in a hurricane had vanished. Tried the pass again fish still holding very shallow so with yet another snagand lost lure we buggered off to have a dive.
Dropped my son over the side ...caught a few good cod and he reappeared with a very nice cray and a couple of takers. With the sea breeze kicking in and the sun turning up the heat from pleasent to BBQ. We pulled the pin and headed for home. Yet another fantastic weekend only to be topped off by my son landing an apprenticeship as a plumber ..sun and wind burnt ...bloody exhausted ..no photos because well I was busy fishing!
Great people making great memories ! Learning bit by bit along the way once again VC does the simple things very well and put us onto the fish , cheers Cam your a bloody beaut!
I would "like" that but my "like" button isn't working again...
Abit like my edit button isn’t. Still soaking, but nothing doing. Even the kontiki just down from us isn’t catching anything
I spent yesterday on the rocks at the pass. No kingies but I have never seen so many small Kahawai in my life. I had to use the biggest lures I had to stop catching them but even then they kept chasing it in every cast. We did get a few kingies the evening before on the boat though. Hooked 4, landed 3 and kept one. All were about the same size, 80-90cm.
Awesome weekend with awesome company and awesome weather.
Little boat got a workout and I suffered a bit of fuel anxiety but all was good.
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Sunburnt shattered and happy.
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Nice bend in that rod @stingray.
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After Ele’s but only ended up with a rig. Boy still stoked...first saltwater fish. Kontikis 2nd run only bought in 3 rig from what I could see
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Time to give the bait board a workout, hopefully get on to the kinges.
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Well a overnighter up the island was the call with the weather looking perfect.
Saw the MAF boys at the Nelson boat ramp before leaving and also the following night on returning. It's funny how every time I see them they all have a different interpretation of the law.......These boys had common sense and bloody good to deal with.
Any way flat arse calm, cod paua crayfish snapper and tarakihi mussels and one gurnad. Nothing overly big on the fish front but I would have the small snaps anyday over the big one we get on the set line. Oh also one deer.
Boat went well.......at one stage we 9 guys a 4 wheeler and all the gear.
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@veitnamcam hey mate those snaps turned up yet ? my bro sent me a pic yesterday from out of wellys ..good haul of snapper he recons they are just turning up.
Pretty happy wee fella.
First fish ever [emoji106]
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Any of you Gurnard Pro's like to give a dumb ex Eel catcher a tip
What is best rig/setup
What depth and ground etc
I in the "inner" Pelorus Sound
Prob a rig that is there when a stupid snapper drifts past too
Thanks in advance
I use small jigs now for Gurnard (like the Shimano bottom ship style) on the very rare occasion I go fishing now or just last trip tiny 30gm orange micro jigs on 5lb braid proved very good.
On long line I use salted mackeral or salted plchards for bait and you seem to get a better hit rate for gurnard. Maybe that on a ledger rig bottom hook for snapper.
Harvester crews are getting a few snapper in the inner sounds now so nearly on your door step :D
I had Tim on Pelorus Image pull up out front 2 days ago to take possession of his 4th pair of Talan Boots :-)
Some big Snapper too - been caught
I fallen for these Gurnard though - beautiful fish
Got some out near Maude Island then my capstan burnt out and no other anchor option - just hoped to get it set up right for close in results
Had the harbour master come alongside us today while we were fishing.
He had a couple of guys from maritime NZ on board. They wanted to check our life jackets, and that we had two forms of communication.
Told us it was part of 'boat safety' week.
Good to see really [emoji106]
Even gave us a free cell phone dry bag...
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@Sarvo +1 for mikee's salted mac however travelly also seems to be a favourite bait of the gurnard. They are not that keen on squid !!
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I like to target banks or where bottom type switches from mud to sand. So rather than sitting in the middle of a big bay Ill fish the edge of a bay where it just starts to shallow up they seem to like these areas.
Baits as above salted mackerel or bonito or trevally.
Rigs they are bottom feeders but will come up a bit to take say the top hook on a flasher rig.
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Life jackets Taupo, must be on BEFORE you start your motor!
Great couple of days away with my Dad and uncle in golden bay and the west coast.
West coast cod fishing was rather disappointing after how much it had been talked up to me over the years however we got a good feed of fish and a fair variety.
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Looking at the paterau river from the paterau shoal.
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Golden bay turned it on this morning with 10 fat snaps and tenish nice gurnard in barely 30min and we headed in not wanting or needing anymore fish to fillet.
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That snapper could be related to me VC. Those juju lips and flat nose look very familiar.
Snapper were thick in Tasman bay on saturday. Went out in mates boat from cable bay and set one set line then went for a fish. Caught 9 good snapper on the rods, all between 6-8lb in 30m mark.
Got a kingfish at 73cm,just under legal and four gurnard, one greyboy, couple of barracouta, couple of big mackrel. Lost 3 other snapper as well as getting busted off on two other fish.
The setline had one snapper, 5 gurnard, couple big kawhawai and some spiky dogfish.
Another 2 boats fishing the 30m mark got 17 snapper on a setline , and one got 8, with a couple 10lbers on rods
Epic weekend of weather.Shot down to Durvile to dive a favourite I call triple rock..havnt being here in a couple of years ..not a bloody thing all the good holes were empty.. Swam out futher good visit found a different rock which Im calling the man hole because that's what is looks like two entrances and a huge split over the top... It was choked with very very good bugs! Took 5 had silted up badly so safety first exited the second entrance. No snapper on hook line no spikes either so pretty much a draw, handful of cod then the heat turned on so we headed home.
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Picture of utter happiness right there, @stingray
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Good day on Trumpeters , as far as eating they are are hard to beat
Good on ya @deer243
She's a bloody healthy fishery all right. We are super lucky there.
I really wish they would lower the longline limit per boat from 2 down to 1 tho. We just dont need two!!
Long may it continue ah [emoji106]
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What side of the island are you @Munsey?
I agree they're bloody good chewing.
Haven't caught one for ages tho.
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