That may be true but if you had to g buy your fish cost would have been more than $40??
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FINALLY got back out on the water yesterday after a 2.5 month hiatus. Normal service has resumed!
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Great weather and good tide times brings everybody out for a flounder.
Went out yesterday but my favourite channel was already full of nets so turned around and came home.
Out today and went to my old favourite channel, best spots were taken again so I just made do and got a feed. Awesome weather.
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A few less people and nets about today so got back to my good spot but had a malfunction and tangled the anckor in the float line while setting so anckor didn't set/ hold....came back to find my floats only a couple of meters apart and thats never a good sign.
No rays tho so thats ok and got a feed for the neighbors.
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Hey @veitnamcam, you get em like this over your side ? Fuckin morons !!!
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4.45am when i took the photo so clearly been in over night. Net hard to both side of the channel. WTF !!!!
Off home for a coffee but hope i bump into them later !!!
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Got 1\2 a dozen & they look like tasty ones [emoji3] !!
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Nice. That reminds me of boyhood adventures with my grandfather.
Slow to get away this morning...trying to get two boys up and ready tried my patience.
Late for the tide to get in I got wet walking the boat out to deep water.
Sun coming up moon still high in the sky.
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Lots of fresh water in close still but windy out wide.
Dropped a longline and burleyed up for the last of the incoming tide...... nothing....no bites.
Buggered off to try catch a cod at the top of the tide, got a bit windy/sloppy......no bites and only one 32.5cm cod boated and released. Guest boy feeling seasick I made the call to come in on the high.
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No fish were harmed.
Bloody good on ya for taking young blokes out. Every experience is so important!
Good on ya VC
That's why it's called fishing and not catching aye :)
Can't count the number of times I've gone surfcasting and stood in the rain and shite, chucked a heap of money into the sea ( terminal tackle and a smorgasbord of various baits) and come home empty handed. I look at it as a form of meditation these days ( especially with a boat and all the extra dollars involved) :)
Yea I normally always get a feed at least but didn't want to stick it out with a kid feeling a bit crook....its sopost to be fun.
Where I launched is good to get on and off the trailer about 2 hours either side of low for half an hour and half a hour either side of high so if I didnt come in then it would have been another 3 hours at least.
He got sent home with a feed of flounder he helped gut tho.
Wise move I would think. Nothing worse than having a sick kid on board for hours :)
Pretty hard case, I found out I'm a bit prone to seasickness after I bought a boat. :wtfsmilie:
Ginger ale or ginger nuts are a good cure otherwise try standing under a tree. My mates took me away for the weekend to Ohiwa Harbour. Only got 3 good sized flounder in the nets nothing on the surf casters and Big Gun got a very sizeable Kahawai the next day from the boat. Man it was cold. Am now to weak to be able to get into the boat by myself so Big Gun just picked me up and put me in it. Was a very sad moment indeed but hey was still out there trying to do it. Hopefully I will get to the Bach again and the son, I know will sort things for me. Still great to be out for the weekend with great friends. Memories.
Pihia bombs are no longer made i believe, i think i have 7 left ... :oh noes:
Nulseacalm is the go to, need to have ID on you when buying.
When I was deepsea fishing I used to tell cadets who were sick to eat chocolate, they would look to me with a glimmer of hope in their eye and ask if it would stop them being sick? No I would say but it still tastes good on the way back up.
Unfortunately I'm a 1 in 75, get sick guy.
For the normal, short days I don't worry about it, however if its a out real wide, or Big boat and lots of people etc.... Sealegs. Cheap insurance, and haven't feed the fish for 4 years
(apart from one short mission, with a huge night before, and lots of rum & port, and a really shit sea, so it doesn't count....)
Kina would have to be one of my favourite sea foods providing its in season and I get it.
Some people are just not man enough to eat Kina GA. My brother and I got in the shit on a dive trip because we brought back Kina and sat on the bow eating them.. Everyone else brought back crays and scallops and were royally disgusted in the two of us. They were even more put off when we savaged the cray bodies for the mustard. Some people aye?
Got out for a sneaky fish today ...ended up with my retired neighbour for crew hes a top bloke but not boat savvy...windyty said SW 15 I was hoping for less ...nope SW12-15 cold as your motherinlaws smile. Snuck down the coast with a following sea...should have turned back!
Got to fishing grounds swung on anchor like a barstard..cod after cod 32cm moved more of the same except an undersize snap. One keeper cod and chucked it in heading for home wind against current stood waves up ..cut the corner instead of steaming out of the middle of the bay saw a very messy sea and read a big ugly very wrong and got a green one over the bow...the first time since my 20s ...crewman looked at me with wide eyes I gave him a wink and said brrrr..got out wide slowly where the swell/chop was more settled and jogged home without further incident. Stopped on a sheltered reef pulled 3 more keepers from 20ft un believable. Parked on the sand in the lee of an island ..4 carrots and couple of sand sharks ...wind kicked it up a gear so pulled the pin and home..couple mistakes today ...learnt from them ..crewman enjoyed his day out and said he trusted me completly and felt like he was in safe hands a very nice compliment .bit of scenery no fish photos.
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My first kingfish on the spear. I'll save you all the details, but it was a lucky encounter and an epic battle followed. Fish nearly got away a few times, tangled in kelp and I nearly drowned! Definitely amateur hour underwater! Also caught a crayfish, so a great day all round.
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Got the flounder net out Friday, despite excellent weather and tides it was very weedy for some reason and I only got 3. Was nice tho.
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Go the flounder dog :)
Maybe a stormy at sea a few days ago and dislodged the weed to fill ya net. I set a mullet net in the Foxton river a while ago, but there was a heap of weed and crap washing down from a big rain up river and caught nothing but weed.
Sunday session ...
Barometer off the scale...hitting highs like a champion...out early southerly puffing...tried a quick drop on carrot patch , sharked to death .....so drifted down the coast ..ran over some sign that looked good ...next few hours was epic ...largest cod went 53.5 cm ...john dory was a close second ...pannie brim .. couple of turkeys to close. Couple of very solid runs on stray line one hook up dropped one diffenatly cotta. But what a day with family.Attachment 142559
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Sorry shit photos salty fingers killing fish and baiting hooks
Awesome [emoji106]
Bloody good size cod and a Johnny how good.
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Happy days.