Ah that's quite common but doesn't help you much.
Dragged @deer243 out of work for pickup.....got a couple feeds worth and a air display too.[emoji41]
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Ah that's quite common but doesn't help you much.
Dragged @deer243 out of work for pickup.....got a couple feeds worth and a air display too.[emoji41]
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Out of Delaware this morning with both kids on board.... quite a stiff noreasterly made everything difficult.... swinging round on anckor constant tangles. Fishing was slow to be fair tho the girl got a panni snapper and the boy a double hook up on the southern sail fish that made him work on his soft bait rod.
Eventually the wind dropped and I bugged out to a new spot and depth.
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Lots of mackeral.... slimy? Certainly the slimyest fin fish I have come across and kahawai.
I did entertain the idea of liveying one for hopefully a JD but I had nothing rigged and it's a full time job just untangling and rebaiting lines.
Inbetween sorting balls ups I managed a few flicks of a wee squid lure I had got a while back but never caught anything on...got a few mackys and gurnard and then something with weight.....[emoji41]
It was just a heavy weight for a start....no head shakes or runs just a solid pull and slow loss of line.
Could it be a shark? Unlike a shark to take a lure I thought and then after about 30 seconds it realised it was hooked and all hell broke loose!
Oh shit this is a kingy and I'm on 10 pound and tiny tiny hooks not far from reef with two straylines out two ledger rigs out a burly pot near the bottom and the Ankor rope! Shit just got real.
Kids wind that in! Wind this in! Wind that in!
I was lucky it ran for the reef and not the plethora of lines surrounding my boat.
I gave it a touch more drag as the last of my 10p braid dissapeard for the horizon and I was on the backing mono[emoji31].
Thankfully it turned and I managed to get back maybe 40 meters of braid an she was off again! I could see the gold bottom of the spool again by the time it stopped and I could get some line back.
Kids had their lines up and were working on the two straylines and burly pot while I was working on getting some line back!
More blistering runs but getting shorter each time and I can see I am starting to win this battle and as long as I don't pull the hooks and she doesn't tangle me on the burly or Ankor lines I might might just land this fish....epic battle for more than 5 min and the boy managed to get the head end in the net and I grabbed the tail and in she come.
Over a meter length, 18.5p so not a donkey but an epic battle on softbait gear and tiny hooks with all those lines out and close reef.
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A few more kahawai gurnard and panni snapper but basically I was waiting for tide to get back in.
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Fly fishing tonight, no fish but cannot complain about one of Attachment 109292the best fishing spots in the world
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Taupo is under DoC control! Say no more! Found deatail of a fish I caught in 2003- 580 mm it was under size:( 600 mm was to go back then!
The latest rain seems to have put the flounder off a bit but the size is as good as it gets!
Ten fat flattys this morning.
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I haven't been sea fishing for many years, but hooked up with my sons for the Easter 3 day Foxton fishing comp. My day out was a lot of fun. Son's boat cleaned up and won several sections.
This is the bin early in the day.
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went n fed the ducks around my maimai yesterday arvo..the Mrs n I trolled around lake for a couple of hours...3 browns n 3 rainbows all between 2-4lb got to come home for dinner with us.... awesome watching sun dip over the hills..then it got cold in a big hurry.
pleased to get home to the fire.
Blue Mackerel?
That is indeed a blue/slimy/pacific mackerel and they are #1 in our household. It's about the only thing that I get really excited about these days! You can only catch so many snapper and kingfish before it gets a little routine. I like to bleed and gut them just after catching (although the latter probably isn't necessary). They are an oily fish that go well on the BBQ or in a frying pan. Good for sashimi too.
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I wish it was a spanish mackerel, but we are hundreds if not thousands of kilometres too far south for such a fine fish.
Son just said its a Mackerel when he landed it. He caught it jigging a soft bait. I smoked it.
We had a patchy day good Friday , we were cut to pieces by Southern sailfish ..they were attacking the swivel after they had taken the hook and sinker off your line it was nuts. We went heavy mono and even wire traced small jigs ... and still they cut us off lost more gear in three hours of fishing than I have all summer?
We did manage a great hit on the carrots when the tide was pushing hard and we were well away from structure ...no spikies and the crays are not grouping up yet so we may enjoy another month of reasonable fishing ...but the dark times are coming!
A few nice wee snapper and a Terra out of Whanganui today. Had to go out 15km to find clean water... Massive pod of dolphins hunting hard too. Very cool to see.
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my old man told us about trout doing that years ago...they put split ring and hook on the swivel.....
Awesome day out deep off Napier, filled up in an hour with puka, bass, trumpeter and Terra.Attachment 110032
Long line cluster fuck ...spikey dogs and ....this bloody thing
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Nice little flounders VC I would be happy with that for a short session. Actually I've caught less with a long session
looks like the Lock Ness monsters' illegitimate love child :)
Bugger
Epic dive for a late season freezer filler out white island. So fishy, had full bin after about half an hour and the rest of the time was spent spectating. Some very big (30kg+) kingies around too but safe from us this mission https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0a0ce90429.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...9265c933fa.jpg
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Are they blue and pink Mao Mao (spelling)?
[QUOTE=Rushy;830481]Are they blue and pink Mao Mao (spelling)?[/QUOTE @Rushy yep, some of the most underrated eating fish in nz. Blue Mao Mao, especially when they get to this sort of size are crazy good. Very high fat content giving them a buttery flavour. The biggest Mao Mao caught was 1.6kg. Everything is huge out there.
@Dorkus have you dived white before? Such an epic spot. Spent the rest of the dive searching for goldies, no luck although it's kinda hard hitting 20m in a screaming current
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Those are some very nice looking blue mao mao. Great eating :)
I ate a few when I lived on the Barrier for a few months. Did feel a bit stink spearing them as they would follow me around when I was snorkelling, but if I didn't get anything else I would turn around and grab dinner.
Do we get them down here or not quite temperate enough?.....I can only dive to the bottom if my moobs are above water when I am standing on it.
Spare a thought for a former athlete that now has the water displacement capabilities of an ocean liner. If I were to dive head first into a pool these days I have good reason to believe that my pecker would not get wet before I reversed thrust and shot back out of the pool like a Polaris missile.