Yes we both have a lot of hot air.
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We get blue Mao Mao over summer tiny mouths proberbly spend hours chewing burley, whilst we feed the wee buggers ! Never seen anything of serious size 20 - 25 cms max!
Yeah the bigger ones are a bit more clued up, pretty selective, certainly no shortage of them out there. Pinkies are a good fish to hunt, they head deeper when you drop on them so you have to plan your drop properly to push them into the rocks. Even then you often end up down around 15-20m chasing them
Yeah Stingy they do have pretty small mouths. I've caught them on a small Sabiki rig on the rod but speared most of them.
I'm surprised you get them that far south. I've never caught them around Auckland, only around the Barrier but that might just be a numbers game
Out this arvo with a brand new re slung short net..... against my better judgement I set on a outgoing tide......a number of very short sets and net clearing untangling untill I found a spot that would work and promptly caught a Stingray and had to cut the bloody thing out of my brand new mesh![emoji31]
Got my 20 but it was hard work.
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Quick session out off White yesterday. Generally hard work but these two made the bin look better. Bluenose was in 485m of water, thank god for the elec reels..
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Three hours at Delaware through the high for one Chinaman.:oh noes:
No other shitfish.Bit lumpy coming in with a 4.1 tide running out.
I actually went fishing yesterday (I never go fishing)...
Caught about 78 snapper between 25 and 34cm which went back (boat min of 35). Ended the day with 10 snapper between 35-40cm, four big trevally (~50cm) and two good kahawai between 3 of us.
Got @mikee away from shortland st for the evening....very short set for somewhere around 35-38 fat flounders...put a few back to get bigger.
Compulsory death pile for @Dorkus.
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Took some little people out in the boat this morning. Very excited they were.
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Lunch was very tasty [emoji106]
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Nets every where sat morning so I don't expect good catches like this to last much longer.....The gurnard might get some pressure instead soon.
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A bit of weather puts most people off it would seem.
As expected with nets choking every channel yesterday my catch dropped considerably from 49 yesterday to 13 today.
Not that I am starving just an observation.
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That is with a net half the legal maximum length BTW.
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Yea interesting that is.
It's taken me the last 4-5 years to really learn the estuary on my side and how to fish it most effectively.....
Your side no doubt should be just as good but it is 20-30min drive instead of 3-5min and I'm not starving.
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Up at 3am to set the net and picked up at daybreak.
20 flounder and back in time to go to kids sports.[emoji846]
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Long time since we here in inner Pelorus have had that luxury :-)
They allow a commercial operator to flog the Bejesus out of here with 200m nets x 6 of at a time
I personally do not have a net (we don't get on) but my 3 immediate neighbors do and one of which is a retired commercial fisherman who loves all fishing - they have all given up
10 -15 years ago you could always without fail get a feed of Flounder - now - maybe 3 or 4 sets to get 1 fish - if your lucky :-(
Kingfish for sashimi :thumbsup:
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Took a mate out this morning for a flounder and had a bit of a fail and only got 2 keepers!
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Got off work way early ..lawns or fishing ..got lucky fpund a boat man ...got more lucky a JD second of my lifetime ...
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Nelson flat as okiwi ...north east and sloppy no carrot fishing or cray hunting .
Nice dory:thumbsup:
Git a snapper comp this weekend, weather is looking spot on snd there is plenty of fish about. Fingers crossed for s few big reds
Ducked out to my local last weekend. 10 min to ramp, 5 min on the water and 45 min in the water...
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Funny small mouth on such a sizey snap?
It didn't seem to have an unusually small mouth in person, maybe just angle of photo. You're right though, it does look small.
Not big on talking i guess ;)