Chasing the big ones again today...
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Chasing the big ones again today...
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Woohoo. Who among us does not have fond memories of fishing from a wharf?
Was at a Matariki event with partner and chatting about firearms law to a guy I know and the local green party 'person' butted in and commented that once they had the guns they were going to push for all boat registration and fishing licenses same as the trout system.
Was nice to take my daughter fishing when she was younger.
Walker if I could rewind time I would do it and then encourage you to go back and smack the tree hugging plonker.
Sounds about par for the course with our government. Axe the policy that would provide serious benefits to the fishery (on board cameras) and focus on the soft target, Joe average out feeding his family.
Although tbh after some of the close calls I've had in/on the water some sort of boating license wouldn't be a terrible thing. I swear like 50% of boaties don't have a fucking clue about how to safely and effectively operate a watercraft
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Boys rock fishing trip this weekend coming, and today the weather was great, so the boss said we'd better go get some bait for the weekend... :)
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Huge schools of kawaii everywhere.
Didnt have much luck on the snaps though, but didnt really try to hard.
Tough day at Kaikoura today , frosty road conditions saw a jack knifed semi on the Kaikoura highway , all the turf north way mud brown / milky ..heading south after the hold up ..didn't see much improvement..out of South Bay in VC's dive boat got out and up th coast vis was shit and any decent cracks I managed to bomb into were empty! Saw more Kina than I have ever before.
Will leave this coast for the spring and the return of the blue water ...was a test run for the dive boat which worked out very well so not a complete loss , and always a day away getting wet , wetting lines and traveling has a magic happiness of it own!
Yea always good to get away shame about the viz.
One of these days I will get to fire my speargun :ORLY:
Na we took Tinny Punt with the idea being we could carry it down a beach and dive less dived turf.
Still needs more horsepower but it did the job.
Heaps of gurnard out in the bay of delaware. My mate has been picking up 10-18 good ones with a few kahawai last few trips in short order.
13 fat flounder this morning mostly good size.
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Out with Dad and they boy this morning.
Dad was up to his old tricks of tangling up with anything and everything possible to tangle with[emoji849] Despite that the boy managed to land some good gurnard.
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A long long we had set resulted in one gurnard 22 spiky dogs and 2 Chinamen [emoji849]
Tried what used to be a good winter terikihi spot but just got undersized cod.
Home with a few feeds of carrots just as the wind got up.
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Went up the island yesterday, tried my normal gunard spot, nothing but sharks.....hauled some of the best cod I've seen for ten + years and some good paua. Talked to some guys fishing in Port Hardy that caught some great snapper but all on those bottom ship things. We tried with bait but that didnt work....all in all a bloody good day out.
@stingray:)
Great day on the water. And Clay's off the back for a bit....
For a foreiner and gun virgin. He loved it. However, these under and over things aren't as nice to shoot as a versamax ( now illegal.....)......
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Fishing was tough.....
Why is your versamax illegal?
Mine is all compliant. Removed the extension, replaced mag spring and now holds 4+1 3" shells.
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Bugger you've heard! Yip they are killing fish on lures up at Stephens ...seen photos of some very very solid fish ...heard they were caught on Jerk baits :P not sure if that was the name of the lure or the fisherman?
Yes I'm jealous , we are in the middle of shark city..no scallops and a feeling of gloom ...hope the fishery can handle the pressure it's getting!
I had to buy another end cap. Should have told you.
Was 40 bucks before the bird season opened.
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Arnt they like absolutely everywhere up there?
All the fishing shows talk of snapper moving into the shallows in winter so thats where I would be looking. Funny tho how our snapper down here do the complete opposite and head deep for winter.[emoji848]
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Yesterday, there would have been 200 plus boats fishing that we saw. Both in close and out a bit (we did a few miles...), but didnt see many pulling in fish. Spoke to 3 and they all said fishing was hard. Skip back 3 months and you only needed 1-2 hours and keeping 40-45cm ones.
Have been told 30-40m mark is where they are. Who knows, I think everyone has a opinion and they are all correct on certain days :)
Attachment 114934Attachment 114935 yeah heaps of boats out yesterday heaps fishing in odd places.... find structure or tight contour lines and the snapper will be there fish the last 2 hours of an out going tide and you'll have no problems.. new boat went good too the new Suzuki 30hp goes real hard !
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You may not be catching any but I cannot believe that there aren’t any there.
Thats a bugger GA.
Still better than working tho I bet.
Got out yesterday to give the new old 15hp a run and tune after some clean up and fix up work on it during the week. Immediately after start one of the plugs died so I shot home and got some more plugs and swapped them out....should have got new plugs but hadn't quite got there yet[emoji849].
Went and set in a completely new area in order to give the motor a decent run with fresh fuel and get it tuned.
Flounder dog was suspicious and pointing to another channel but alas I thought I knew better and set in this one.
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I was rewarded with a net full of weed and barstard rock oyster shells and one river flounder.
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At least the motor was a success, once idle and idle mix was sorted she starts and runs like a clock.... pretty good for a 38y old motor.
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Surething, tho by October I am usually trying to catch the early snapper.
Wee after work mission back in my "good" spot.....bad weather lately has stirred up a lot of weed/leaves/sticks/plastic but somehow I still managed to get 8 in that mess of a net.
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Interestingly perhaps the plastic I catch is very rarely a recently banned "single use bag" with handles, most common is food wrappers, pie wrappers, chocolate bar wrappers, plastic wrappers off of bottles and occasionally a bottle.
Out in the pouring rain and dark this morning to catch up with @stingray and give the frypan a run. Over the last hill into the bay the rain eased back from torrential to look light and I breathed a sigh of relief.
Running a bit late due to the weather for once Joe was waiting for me instead of the other way round.[emoji106]
Out with into a rolly sea I wanted to try target gurnard....that was a dismal failure but we got our limit of 2 blue cod each in no time so we buggered off to try catch something else and Joe succeeded!.
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We tried a few different spots here and there and just could not get away from undersize cod so headed closer to home and Joes carrot patch.
It was busy fishing with sharks ,cod both legal and undersized, gurnard and big fat kahawai.
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Weather was quite nice by now but we had a good catch and it was time to head home.
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Great day out with VC.. we were hunting winter terakie ...along the edges of reefs . Tried a lot of foul ground a lot of good turf for cray hunting marked. ..weather eased as the day ran through ...very fishy day ..myself landing a wareho? First ever, in the same place VC got a fat wee brim ( undersized snapper) mid winter 13 degrees water temp ...very fishy ..we ran onto a handy bay hooked small carrots and spinies ..up the coast ..slack water to a out going tide ...I caught double headers of spinies and bloody VC hooked up on double headers of carrots ..then a few solid 3-4 ft grey boys .. fat as kawahia up and down the coast kept a couple for smoker ...carrot patch ran dry checked the burley to find some barstard had chewed the top out of it .. rope wooden stopper the lot ...4 th trip out and mangled ...not ideal!
After at least 5 inchs of ran supprised to have fishing this good? Water cleaner than expected ...diving next weekend a possibility!
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What is that? Blue warehou? I thought I knew my fish, but had to look that one up.