Good shit Gibos sis[emoji106]
Awesome fish.
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Good shit Gibos sis[emoji106]
Awesome fish.
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Good mate. Busy but good
Up the Firth of Thames the past couple of days with the @Wingman, what a fantastic trip. Limits of snapper, red hot action on big kawhai in amongst the bait fish and birds, gannets dive bombing our live baits 3-4m from the boat, a huge trevally coming up from the depths to smash up Wingman in a flash. We tried to outfox the kingies in crystal clear wayer, and they just teased us, taking all the burley but ignoring our hooked baits completely. Man those fish are smart. Didn't hook up once, and some cunning tactics are going to be dreamt up for next time.
Wingman's 15.2lb snapper the hightlight of the trip, he battled the bugger hard on light gear, real thrill to land that in the RIB (no net, no gaff!). The best fishing trip I've had for many many years, thanks Phil.
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Yes Sir that was a blast! Will throw in the spear fishing gear next outing to sort out those elusive kingfish..
So excited about my lunch right now!
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Wheres the wasabi maaaate
Waiting for the wife to get home from the supermarket with it.. getting dang hungry but I refuse to eat sushi/sushimi without wasabi!!! :angry:
I have been a bit slack on posting in this thread.
Have been out a bit floundering of late.
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Took Dad and my boy out.
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Went out this afternoon with the lad and got a few more.
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Got home and cleaned the boat then wandered the neighborhood with a bucket full of still flapping flounder and gave them all away.[emoji5]
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Oh there was a trip with the @stingray in there somewhere too.
Bugga not being your next door neighbor, absolutely love flounder
Had a fun morning in the inlet with the boys this morning [emoji3]
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Bit chilly at 5.30am, tho no complaints from the boys [emoji106]
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Took the Penguin out Thursday after work to test out his little net.....it works.
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Didn't take a pic of the catch but we got 10 or so from a short set and a short net.[emoji41]
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Owned (previously) by a short person.....there ya go, Saved you having to type it ;)
Out there doing it this morning...alarm went at 330am as I forgot to cancel yesterday's alarm[emoji849] and again at 5am...net deployed near the low and a mate coming into town to help pick it up a few hours later.
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Relaunching a few hours later to go pick up net and I spy a massive native log comeing in on the big tides so we went and lassoed it and towed it to shore then dragged it above high water with a vehicle..... imagine hitting this in the dark or even in your ski boat! Floating maybe 5-10percent above water.
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My net is absolutely poked from last winter and is more holes than net but I'm not fixing it yet while it is still catching more than I need.....25 large ones....one "diamond" or sand flounder....bit of a rarity for me.
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Got our shit together and decide to chase some flounder. Sunday night produced nought, but last night changed spots, on sunset with an incoming tide, got two nice fish, beaut night for it, except for an aggressive stingray that didn’t like us disturbing him!Attachment 108665
Here is an FYI for some of you local fisherman interested in surf casting...
As part of the Tasman bay estates subdivision they have been required to build a public walkway. There are some benifits to subdivision i guess
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That's it in the above picture, it will become public as soon as titles are granted which isn't far off.
Its pretty cool as it cuts down this valley
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And access the beach right in the centre of the tasman bay bluffs.
I'm pretty sure there might be some good fishing down there from time to time. I for one am definitely gunna give it a crack.
Access and car parking is off deck road tasman [emoji106]
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We swam a small kahawai off Papamoa Beach this evening, great result for my mate!
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Down bay,4 inches of rain left the sea green! Flat calm so Lis and I headed to the pass to chase kings! Well ...well ...well ....let's be brutally honest cluster fuck central came to town...birds going nuts all the way down stopped jigged trolled ...couta and horse kawahi...got to the pass ...current running perfect no devil pools solid lines ...excellent ...did a couple of drifts no joy..but marks on the sounder looking great!
Then third drift...bang waaahoo hit a devil pool spun boat rods in holders on the back of the boat trying to keep line clear of rods etc etc etc kingi does a solid run bang gone ......drift out into the calm water ...rerig , new trace the works ...this time rods all out of the way ...start drift at 80 ft ..should run out to 140+ couple of drops still in 80 ft caught in a eddie swing us towards the shore get lure just below the boat out from underneath swings a beauty lure disappears into a black hole ...I yell a Lis deep water deep water ...10 seconds of thumb on reel hang on and pray ...got line one two three turns ...run run run bang gone .....a very sad me !
Third time lucky ..by now my lad and his mates had joined us in another boat at the pass after terriorisg the local crays! Lisa hands me another lure and sees a price tag ( amature mistake) ...now I'm getting the this fishing is expensive look...the other boat hooks up they yelling come close ...not that close bloody hell ...dropped lure ...three winds bang deep water Lis deep water ...all under control boated a nice king ...then the boys light up yelling go over for a look ...huge shark has just snacked on their second king and is holding onto the left overs..they are enjoying every second....me yeah na thanks fellas ...the shark got wise to the fact he was being teased and ghosted away!
Left the lads to it as Lis wanted to slay some cod ...up the coast pulled some good cod , then I snagged a small snapper and then a second ...ran out of day so no diving ...bring on Easter !
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Hell on earth mate. I dont know how you put up with it ;)
You name the day ...I'm dieing
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From info around the place these we treats are the standard size ..inside and down the coast
If you guys keep posting this sort of shit, I'm moving down :thumbs:
We are way over populated already thanks!....only got 20 fat flattys today.
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Oh yeah "only 20" you poor duckies :ORLY:
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Are you netting them or spearing
Netting...the estuary I mostly fish for flounder is too dirty to spear 90% of the time and usual story when its clear and the tides are the right time there is always something else on like work or family commitments......there is another estuary more suited to spearing not far away but same story with time/tide/weather very rarely lineing up, when its good always some other shit you have to do and when you have time its dirty or blowing.
I've mainly done spearing in the past up in Auckland, but haven't gone after the little flat critters in a while. I've just bought a net so might give that a go. Although not many sheltered spots around Palmy. Have a similar thing with trying to get out in the boat. Weather good, have to work. Got some time off, sure enough can't get over the bar ( as opposed to away from it :beer: ) cause the swell and/or wind is up. That is one of the only things I miss about living in Dorkland. At least there you can shoot over to the other coast in about half an hour if the weather is crap on 1 side. Mainly fished off the rocks around Cornwallis, Whatapu, and Titirangi and speared flounder in the estuaries.
Gotta be some positives to living in Auckland I guess.
I can report despite ongoing and relentless dispensing of my burly ( breakfast currently) it does not seem to be attracting fish 50 miles off kaikoura and timaru cannot get here fast enough
You seem to be suffering sea sickness these days when you didn't use to?.
Flounder dog on point.
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