There may be a lack of fishing shows but 3 nights in a row with hunting shows...... I'm not complaining! Last night red stag, night before Dudley's and then there was hunting aoteroa the night before! :thumbsup:
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The kiwi bushman has some slickly edited fishing and diving videos from around the south island, durville, hokitika trench, jacksons bay etc.
Matt Watson has his own whole channel. Its called ultimate fishing.
But honestly there are so many cool little vids put up by heaps of random fellas.
Just type in to youtube's search engine what ever tickles your fancy and watch away. Best thing is you dont get 5 min add breaks and if you dont like it just hit stop ... on to the next one [emoji106]
After a while youtube learns what you like and new shit pops up all the time. Watched a dude explaining how he goes about spearing big snaps the other day. Very interesting.
Heaps of good hunting stuff too. Rogee Productions, Gav Bubu, Ruahine Hunter, Life of a Bushman and Keeing It Wild all have some good vids.
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Wrong side of the boat today! VC and his young bloke took me out for a mish ...out earlish but work break up saw us both a bit dusty, so stupid o'clock was replaced up early ...a great morning a bit sloppy and fishing was slow. VC nailed a good snap pushing 12lb whilst I sharked tangled sulked rerigged sharked etc ...VC jiouner (captain obvious)even reminded me as he hauled in another carrot that I had not caught anything takeable all morning ...such a nice wee chap!
Then captain obvious did what young blokes on boat do ...emptied VCs tucker box then sniffed out mine and politely didn't the same to that! So we hauled the hooklines to shark red cod China man ...argggg! Over to second line thump thump so after a couple of spikies we hauled in a beauty a very very respectable fish...in shallow for a bit of a try in a spot that fishes well at high tide ...small VC slayed a couple of pannies then VC did the same ...i on the other hand soaked baits ( exactly the same )not two meters away from these two barstards and caught bloody zip, zero , nada , nothing oh a bloody undersized cod ...ARGGGGH!
They took pity on me and we headed in, caught up with another boatie who had had similar luck to me..I felt his pain ...VC and mini VC were gentleman enough to share more than a feed of fish with me! Thanks guys for another great day!
I'm pissing off to Okiwi, where I can go freediving so aleast I can see the bloody fish! Great start to my Xmas break keep well everyone! Relax and enjoy!
Beautiful day on the coast.
Caught a couple of these fellas on the surf caster
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Had some fun watching this fella in the rock pool next to me...boys loved it!!
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Im getting in the water tomorrow for sure [emoji106]
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Looks like fun kukuwai
Recently I hear Octopus is good eating quite often....but never first hand.
I have tried it once at a "restaurant" and my jaw muscles cramped up before I finished chewing the first and only mouthful it was that bad.
I know squid can be like butter or boot-leather depending on how it is treated so maybe octy the same?
You are never going to get melt-in-the-mouth octopus, so if that's your thing, pass them up, but after crayfish, they are my favourite eating thing to come out the ocean. Greek method. Cut guts out. Freeze and defrost. If you have anger management issues, beat on rock 100 times, otherwise, dip in to boiling water a few times, then put back in to water to simmer for 1.5 hours. After that, you can do what you like with it. My favourite is marinaded in red wine overnight, then coat in lemon juice, olive oil and salt before putting on to a hot barbie, preferably charcoal. Cook until blackened in a few spots and it's good to go.
Here is one especially for you VC
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Caught in the river mouth [emoji106]
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Got the opportunity to get out to the three kings last weekend. I had a massive headache for most of the day which made diving hard, but still managed a few good fish.
Water was cold and dirty by kings standards.
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Less than it looks @veitnamcam. Only a touch over 30kg
Spent a bit of time in the 1410 today. Had to take two crews out so that all the family members got a turn
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Couple of brim caught, massive fight with a stingray and lost a bloody good trev at the boat, hook just popped out [emoji107]
Here's one for you rig fans, caused a lot of excitement with the youngins !!
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Sounds like I am taking the father in law out this weekend.
Havent heard many/any snapper storys of late they seem to be well in spawn.
Hopefully get a couple tho, close water temps dropped away and haven't come back up yet so I wont burn fuel trolling for kings unless I hear they are back between now and then.
He always comes at the worst time of year lol. Come in Nov or Jan Feb.
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Any Kingie over 30kg is a bloody good fish @Dorkus
You might as well its cheaper than its been for months.......unless off course you filled up here
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WTF, I reckon someone's gunna be in big trouble !!
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Father and son moment... He's very very good I was bloody lucky
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That's not a cray,THIS is a Cray!:thumbsup:top hole stingers.
The crazy thing is , there were two more bigger in the crack took the small one and one big bugger I could reach. Have seen easily over 100 crays the past three days...a good number undersize which is fantsitic for the area and some monsters that I'm not keen on pushing for ...the result of prospecting and having the pleasure of diving with my lad!
Short story...kings at the pass nothing large took one at 80 cm to eat! Was full of small squid! We have hit most of our known holes so went hunting ...blew 4 tanks on turf that look the part but was empty or just rolled into shingle ...caught the odd cray here and there ...then yesterday hit a couple of spots that I will milk for years to come...one is a rock the size of a caravan split right across with viewing windows all over it ...you could see the crays big medium small but not a chance of reaching them 30 + crays I counted ...then at one side and one end were holes that held the outsiders which we fished ...we didn't slaughter them either taking just the three two from one end and one from the side.
Went in search of the "prick" a hole/rock you either hit and get a couple off or miss and get nothing..missed got nothing ..up after 10 mins the boat man says he's marked a rock whilst following us looked good. Down on it to diver heaven huge huge blue Moki 20 lb + swimming mirrors , real kelp not just short seaweed , holes and cracks everywhere then the cave of aldin ...small crays , takers , and I would quietly say 4 - 5 crays from 6- who knows lb , the one I lucked on to went 10 and there were more than one a third bigger than him. A simply amazing dive with my son! Left us both, grinning and sharing a moment that I will hold dear for the rest of my days.
At 35m with a longline deployed and 5 rods in the water and 7 kilo burly dispensing at 4am this morning.....fishing was slow....the horizon lightened slowly and other boats turned up too....there was quite a few boats all in my general area so apparently it was the place to be but nobody told the snapper.
As light started to penetrate the depths the spiky dogs/greyboys and gurnards turned up....me getting a gurnard the moment the it hit the bottom almost every time and the father inlaw catching the sharks :thumbsup:
A couple of hours went by and a lot of gurnard were boated and as the last of the burly ran out one of the three straylines with whole pilchards took off! Then another! Farkin finally I thought!
Action stations get FIL on the rod I get on the other....na mines dropped....start winding in all the other lines this is the big one! Blistering runs with 20-25p drag but after a couple of minutes it becomes obvious this is no snapper and has all the makings of a big bronzy or some big shark.
FIL gives up and passes the rod over for me to winch the bugger up, Im not real good on sharks but think it was a blue around 7-8foot.
Cut trace at the mouth and let him go....FIL was gutted he wanted to keep it:ORLY:.
Pulled longline no baits no fish.
Bugged out back to the coast dropped longline in 25m on a bank......fished threw the low, 3kilo salmon burly....I farkin hate slack water....went in for a cod caught 5 million kept one legal I hate cod fishing.....wind came up a bit and thought Id head closer to home.....pulled longline one gurnard one sand shark no other baits touched.
In desperation went to my super secret panni snapper spot and on the way dropped longline in 16m......got a few pannies one decent one you could almost call a snapper, quite a few Terikihi, couple more 32.5cm cod. another 3 kilo salmon burly and a little service station pilchard one:roll:
Then of all things an Octopus! A decent size normally I would just release it but after @MightyBoosh talking them up I kept it to try.
A good run on the strayline again and once again for a start it put up such a good impersonation of a 20pound plus snapper I even got the net ready but then it turned into a big shark and after a bit of a stalemate broke my 50p fluorocarbon strayline.
Harbormaster called in to see we had life jackets and two forms of communication which of course we did/were wearing and she said everyone she had seen fishing was slow to nothing.
I thought it a little odd to see the harbormaster in Dellaware?.....its not exactly Nelson Harbor.....have seen coast guard and MAF in the past there.
pulled hookline to no baits no fish.
Did end up with a fridge full of Gurnard/Terrikhi/Panni snap but she was a slow day and hard on the burly.
Dont think I have ever set a longline 3 times in 3 different areas and depths for one fish before!
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A gemmie caught off White yesterday. Bugger all fight in them.
We are both familiar with kingie weights and this thing was def in the 10kg region. We looked it up (after processing all the fish) and the biggest all-gear one is 9.8kg!
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You're right. For the hell of it, I got the missus to cook bits of pup 'puka and some gemfish together tonight. Both equally superb.
Once you get past the visual resemblance to "snakes", the flesh quality is excellent.
Did your spear the Kingi @Dorkus
Managed to get out to the mouth of the Waimak to target kahawai with gadgette#3. Managed to hook one earlier this year, with stingray, but lost it a couple of metres from the boat. This time I managed to land my first of this species, and it was a beauty too. Reckon it would have been at least 500, 400, 300, ok, ok, nearly 150 long.
boated 2 brown trout this morning..mine was around the 2lb mark and nicely hooked in corner of mouth so it went back to grow bigger..Mrs got snagged majorly so I wound my line in and backed boat up....funny WTF is the stupid woman doing (I think silently to self) as her line cut across back off boat as Im backing up,moved further across and line follows,got past "snag" and hello its no plurry snag its a decent fish....managed to stop laughing enough to get it into net for the good lady...somewhere around 4lb....now filleted so boneless and sitting on rack in fridge coated in brown sugar n salt destined for smoker over next two nights.
we had a good play on lake now we got 15hp donk on the 13'frypan it just flies along.learnt lessons put my fat arse further forward and she sits nicer in the choppy waves,going down wind the waves just dissapear. we got out by lunchtime as the hoons turned up...traffic along the Geraldine-Fairlie highway was heavy as heading south.