I'm in ...great driver ..not a bad diver as well
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Piss off @Shearer kingfish jigging only ....ok truth be told , I tried softbaits , jigs , bait , stupid floppy things ...I hate fishing ...I'm into catching ....worse I don't / really do ....enjoy watching amatures slaying whilst a talented experinced fisho like myself gets nada ...everyone smiling , but me ! Then they put the hurt on..."we will stop fishing so you can get a couple" ....ohhh you barstards!
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They are on there way.
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Net caught but encouraging.
Might take the kids for a rod fish tomorrow if the weather plays ball.
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Took kids out for a couple of hours today. Was a late start but the weather was nice.
Kids got some good kahawai and some stonking big gurnard.
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That's some solid kawahi!
Nothing wrong with those, under rated fish. Great bait and those good ones are good eating . Mates wife used to use them for fish bites before the main course of snapper etc,
always had some nice spice with them. They tasted better than the main course quite often depending how she did them.
Righto will do better @Rushy ..but I can spell kingi, the season begins...ohh hell yes how good
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Na would have worn him out about cook strait ...I've added a few pounds ..:beer:
Yes they are @Shearer ...big bait shaols ...one was the way down off Okuri light ...dolphins gannets terns and seals had a school of baitfish on the surface...was epic the were killing them ...the baitfish about 20 cm long were jumping out of the water as they were attacked ...the water around us had scales drifting through like glitter ...down at the pass right under the mainland marker another boil up ...would have being a stick chuckers dream ...
Well 300 gram pink lures as per normal ...thing was the kings were very shallow 60 70 ft was where the school was holding we had to tow them to deep water or lose gear ...and hungry and full of fight. They put the hurt on us that's for sure!
And you thought you were having a bad day...
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Life just bit him in the arse!
Off early with @deer243 this morning to the abletasman for a fish and try to catch a early snapper.
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We were early and had lines and burly in the water at change of light but fishing was hard! Lots of undesirables and few bin fish.
We tryed flasher rigs,straylines, longline,soft baits,slow jigs,micro,jigs,kaburas, sliders, kahawai trolling lures the works.
We tried on the sand we tried on the reefs we tried on the mud we tried deep and shallow and everything in between.
At least the weather was nice.
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And I got a txt to pick up some fresh whitebait on the way home[emoji106]
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Its bucketing down on the WET coast.
Had a pretty good day all up though.
Scooped up a few little fish this morning.
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Then managed to land a few nice kahawai off the beach this afternoon.
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Had a mean feed so now just sitting by the fire listening to the rain thumping down.
Happy days [emoji106]
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Hunting and the weather have been getting in the way of going fishing of late but with today booked off work and rivers in flood fri/ sat and the wind coming up from midday today I opted to put the flounder net out rather than target snapper with all the fresh in close.
8 really good sized ones.....like early season size.
Spot the river flounder.
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They all look the same to me mate.....flat :D
Im amping for the long weekend. Booked a campsite and going to drag the caravan down to Thornton for some surfcasting
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Your Kingfish is a lot longer than mine......................:pissed off:
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Yep.
For me they are easy to pick out from my normal catch of greenbacks/yellow-bellied tho between those two I would have to research each time if asked as they are so similar.
The river flounder or black is a slightly different shape too which makes it stand out to me.
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Yep, it was the biggest Great White I have ever seen in 45 years of fishing off the Kaipara, the last 12+ years working on a charter boat . Estimated length was 14-16 feet. Seen plenty of 8-12 foot ones, but this one was something else!!
My first thought was 'We need a bigger boat'............( The Charter boat is over 20m long and it felt small)
Keep feeding it up your way ...so it bloody stays there ..I've got a summer of free diving to do!
That is a hell of a fish to be chomping through your kingi's! Adrenaline plus just large dash of great white! Now that's fishing!
Well this is just bloody bullshit.... happens every year around this time... water temps come up...whitebait and snapper come in close.....every afternoon at 2 or 3 pm it blows.[emoji24]
Yesterday after work would have been perfect, good wind and sea and perfect tides for a after work fish but alas I had to go out for tea.
Tonight looked doable, offshore breeze turning 8 knt onshore and dieing to zero at dusk.
What actually happened was offshore breeze, flat as sea with a ripple on top and wide open boat testing....best top speed yet.
Picked a spot as it turned onshore and for a moment considered putting a long line out but thought na it will be a prick to get in by myself if it does blow up....glad I never.
By the time I had burley and rods in the water it was a good 15knts and white cappy....got a gurnard and a kahawai in a matter of minutes as conditions worsened.
Must have been 20knt for a bit and tight steep wind chop built up as fast as I have ever seen it go from flat calm to shithouse.
I was sure the wind would drop as the sun set and I'm no scaredy cat but when you're taking waves over the bow at ankor its definitely time to bug out!
Got everything up and picked a set to motor up and retrieve ankor.
With that up I felt safe again so tightened up the hood on the Raincoat from under the seat and headed back beam onto the surf getting a facefull[emoji106]
In behind the bar it was still shit but fishable on the drift with motor idling in reverse with only a few waves over the back.
Birds everywhere, med size kahawai every drop spewing whitebait on the deck.... caught 7-8 of them bled and kept 5 for neighbor and come in.
Time I had it on the trailer the wind was dropping.
By the time I had it in the shed it was pretty good [emoji849]
Bloody spring weather.
Back into the safety of Monaco.
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Mean, thorton is a rad spot. We spear the raus a bit.
Ill wave on the way past, we are hitting white island. Operation"get the girlfriend to shoot a massive kingi then laugh my arse off as it tows her around". Will harass a few snails and packies too I think, freezer is looking sad.
It's blowing like 40 thousand bastards here today. Ya right about the spring weather VC, just wonky as :wtfsmilie:
Yep rough as guts up Waihau Bay so will have to do some top water fishing in the am.