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Great day out with my dad I’m Welly harbour a few days ago! My iPhone ended up in the drink as I was getting back onto the jetty at the marina at the end of the day, but luckily I’d already sent these photos to a buddy so was able to recover these photos from the day. Lost a few others though. Good excuse for an upgrade :D
First kingi caught on the lighter gear we were using to catch livies, the other kingis on live jack mackerel. First one came in a couple of cm under so it went back. Others just over 80cm. One came home, along with the ele & a couple Kahawai.
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Tangaroa gave me snapper, so we will be eating snapper this week.
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Out this morning early with Dad and one of his neighbours.
On the water with lines and burly deployed before light as the the tide times and size were a bit shit.
Sat threw till just after the high with only one kahawai.
Went super shallow in channel for the start of outgoing tide....plenty of very small snapper but nothing bigger showed up so we went a few miles out to deeper water for a go....even at midday a straylined whole pilchard would be half eaten and have 5-8 sea lice eating it when wound in.
I have only ever seen the lice that bad in full daylight once before.....theroys anyone?
Anyway we come in with a feed of pannies and a big rig.....it happened to be low tide shortly after I got home so I got the tinny punt out and deployed the flounder net.
Took one of the neighborhood kids out to pick it up and sent him home with fresh flounder.
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Out early this am with @stingray to try some deeper water.
Windy ty looked a bit average but I hoped for the best.
Out into the blackness she was well sloppy with white bits on top and we turned back into the shelter of cable bay.
We entertained ourselves for a couple of hours by catcheing many small snapper and a few small trevs while tangling ourselves up in the burly and anckor ropes as the boat swung round and round in circles in the wind and eating some sandwiches.
Certainly lots of juvenile snapper in the shallows of Tasman bay at the moment which can only be a good sign for the future.
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I second all of that [emoji106]
We were gunna go out 30m off the islands but ended up in 10m and it was loaded with little snaps.
Boys loved it.
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Dropped a buggered little net out this morning with the boy and the dog for hopefully a few flounder.
Dad came in for the pickup which of course jinxed it....2 big rays had tied it up and we only got 5 flounder.
Took Dad for a tiki tour as tho I could remember grandads batch on best island I couldn't remember were it was or which one it was.
Dad picked it out straight away and named all the owners of the ones that were there 40 plus years ago.
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wow that is a big fishy thing :)
Had recently completed reslinging my short flounder net and got it out this afternoons low tide.
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Picked up a short time later with my Son, A third of the net was still not covered by water yet so only half of it was fishing and I got 25 good size ones and no rays!
What a difference a net without massive holes in it makes
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You derserved a large slice of good luck after your and the Young blokes efforts at Okiwi, Ma n Da still singing your praises! Thanks again VC
3 generations fish this morning with my Dad and my Son.
One of those mornings where everything just goes right:thumbsup:
We were on the water with a longline deployed and anchored up with 2x burly pots deployed and baits in the water just after 6am.
Nothing happened at all for the first 15 min or so then my strayline ticked out......then ran....then nothing......fuck,do I check my bait? Na il give it a couple mins then off she goes and give it a wind and connect. Nice 8p snapper to start off. Usually the boy always gets the first one but he catches up later.
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A couple min later Dad is on,the boy is on and I am winding up lines.
the next hour or so is flat out winding up lines, netting fish, fish flapping on deck while other fish are being fought....truely epic rod fishing for snapper.
Only one tangle up which is amazing with Dads habit of catching fish in the rod holder:D and I sorted it quick with a knife to avoid losing the fish(the other rod was his anyway:D)
Son got the biggest fish of the day on the rods at 16 pound on @rambo-6mmrem little reel and 8p braid.
Chilly bin looking full already with 16 snapper in it we called it and picked up the longline.
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One really really really big snapper and freshly caught.....sorry I havent got a photo or a weight as we wanted to get it back in the water asap but suffice to say it was easily over 25p probably more like 30. From reasonably shallow water and freshly caught he powered away no problem after a min by the boat to get his breath back.
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Was just one of those epic mornings dreams are made of:)
Oh and amazingly there was no bycatch at all, everything we caught was target species!
Well done Cam...mean fish [emoji106]
Gotta love that 3 generation fishing too ah [emoji3]
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Nice one, looks like one epic day of fishing. Great for the young fella to have awesome memories like that.
And go the might flounder dog :)
An awesome day out, Your lad looked pretty chuffed with himself this afternoon when I called in.
Yes - I had a photo from Nydia Bay yesterday with 1 Snapper of not overly large size
Went into the Recycle Bin when I saw Cams catch :-))))))
Still Gurnard here - thank God - or it would not be worth going out
Maybe March Snapper time for Pelorus ??
What you heard - you Tasman reapers
Inspired by some of VCs recent catches.
I wangled a day off, relieved the youngest from daycare and took dad out as well.
Flounder net was set at first light with only two meters in the channel Cam and 38m on the mud.
Blasted out into the bay for a rod fish. Actually blasted is an exaggeration as had to walk the boat 40 odd meters to get out the very shallow channel mouth.
Magic morning out there with biting fish which is always good. Came back in the channel 2.5hrs later with 7 snapper and 3 kahawai.
Picked up the flounder net for 13 of those which meant a good mix of fish in the bin
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Didn't take any pictures out there but was happy to put a few bags in the freezer as stocks were getting low. [emoji106]
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I havent fished the sounds much at all but the last 6 weeks or so they have been spawning and patchy to catch here in the bay requiring going deep which is a long way.
Now they are back in range and hungry as trying to put condition back on so I imagine from now they would be heading into the sounds?
Are you based in Nydia?
No @veitnamcam - I approx half way from Havelock to there
I actually caught "the" Snapper in Maori Bay but SE kept pushing me around so went around into Nydia - only caught a couple of release Kawhai there
My Snaps was some color as Kukuwai's
If I fish deep (deep in here is 25-30m) I catch bloody 7 Gillers and Spiky Dogs - loose a heap of gear etc
Neighbor puts up with that and gets rewarded with more Gurnard and slightly bigger Snapper - but again - usually catches one Snapper - and that's it
Strange, as you know - when you catch one its usually bang bang - been same all year (since Spring actually)
Yea I dunno, here they feed up on crabs and seacucumbers and baby shellfish and its all pretty featureless bottom so its a case of pick a area and depth and use lots of burly to gather them in....which means you need current, Sunday we got threw 4 burly bombs in a couple of hours but its worth it if you fill the bin....not so much if inundated with sharks or baby kahawai.
The bigger ones can be shy and change of light at either end of the day is generally better as long as it aligns with current.....slack water is shit but then so is too much current:D
Id try to burly into a mussle farm or into a big sandy bottom bay where they should be feeding.?
Young fella got a cracker...48cm.....[emoji106]
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Bloody awesome!
That’s a carrot!
@Sarvo There is a school of thought amongst the old school fishers around here that the snapper that used to frequent the sounds hot spots ( kenepuru etc) are now heading into tasman bay due to increased water temp.
I'm no expert on that but everyone says May is the best month for snaps off D'Urville.
However they get em on @Shearer's favourite....metal Jigs. Nothing on the bait.
Food for thought [emoji106]
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The metal is effective in that deeper water because you can get it down and keep it down while on the drift.
That said I have had a very successful charter trip up there in june fishing 60-100m and only ledger rigs and only squid bait......despite me taking all my gear and wanting to use it.
New waka. Cool little beast. Been a bit of swell so no spearing but have been trying the wishing sticks in the harbour. Managed a few feeds and has the added advantage of being able to drink beers while fishing....
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