Awesome man. The old Kings start getting pretty elusive on the spear around this time. They sure put up a fight. Wait till your on the end of a 20keg plus model. My first king I got so tangled in my line, it was a bloody palava.
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Well looks like my floundering days are over Thanks to Sage and Nash.
Thinking about converting Tinny Punt into a flounder spotlighting gunship but would need keen/reliable crew.
Anyone want to buy a flounder boat?
Well my new net works good [emoji106] Shame I won't have long left to use it.
These two guys are going to miss the shit out of it !!!
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Not to mention their old man [emoji6]
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Teach them to fish for them with a line, the smallest hook you can find and a sweet corn kernel for bait. A can of cream style sweet corn for burly. That’d be fun as for the young one.
Mate tell him the old man on the forum says yes the eat canned corn and also canned peas. Had hours of fun doing it as a young fella up the top of the top end of the Whangamata harbour as the tide turned and was coming in if I am remembering correctly) A can of whole kernel (Bait) and another can of cream style (Burly) is a cheap way of fishing as a kid. We used light line and a small sprat hook with no sinker ( so it followed the burley). Doesn’t need to be flash as a hand line will do but a kids light sprat rod is good as well.
Well naturally I was out this morning, using my brand new slung 6.5 inch mesh net.
A bit of inclement weather sure puts off most of the punters.
The only other netter about today is a local who keeps a bloody close eye on me and my catches from his lounge.
He said Im only pretty new at this because I have only been netting this estuary and looking at it out of my window for the last 45 years but I have never seen any Dolphins in here in that time.
Anyway he got 20 running 5.5"mesh and I got six running 6.5" mesh...
The bigger fish have gone deep to spawn.
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You and me both bro, might even give it another go tomorrow [emoji106]
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Bit bloody windy this morning and a tad wet.
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I was the only one out on this side, got 7 and dropped a couple more out of the net.
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Nice one Cam, I got none !!
Suspected that might be the case tho as when i went to pick it up someone had set a 60m net about 100m in front of my net. WTF??!!
Dad came along and i won't repeat what he had to say about it. Lucky for the owners of that net we didn't see them or dad would have had a piece of there hide !!
The cheek of some people is hard to fathom !
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Out with the cod masters this morning after a leisurely start, nice weather and I busyed myself with keeping all the smaller cod away from the other rods and other important dutys.
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Good feed of Cod and Carrot obtained we headed for n for a nice early clean up.
Always Awesome Cheers Joe and Kin.
Cheers VC for showing us how winter hook lining is done, and not slay 25 sharks , Really great to see brim ( small they were) but in tasman bay in the winter. As you say we now have a resident population in the bay, long may they grow into a solid biomass.
Cod 34- 37cm were stuffed full of krill ( squat lobster ), nothing on the surface were we normally see them (the krill) so interesting to note that they are about on the bottom. Marked up a reef for a dive next chance I get. Nice to wet a line and enjoy company of wonderful folks.
Out straight afetr work this evening.....mirror flat makes it hard to see the banks and channels in the dark.
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One large stingray unfortunately but I was still very happy with 19 good sized flounder and one kahawai.
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Majority of them have been distributed around a nearby retirement village.:)
Nipping out after work for a easy limit of fish comes to an end on the 1st of next month for me unfortunately Rushy.
I am not sure why the estuaries of the top of the south have been singled out for banning of set nets while it appears the rest of the country can continue on?
I did have a fairly good look for a flounder with the headlamp but water is just too dirty at the moment....viz is barely 100mm.
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Yeh that sounds silly. Are the dolphins that they are trying to save estuarine anyway? Also is all netting banned or could you and a mate on either end of a net in wetsuits still drag a net in a loop out and across the estuary? We used to catch them like that but the net was probably only 25 - 30 metres from memory and as I remember it was quite Heavy and tiring if you got a lot.
Drag netting still ok but not so many suitable areas to do that and of course you need a mate who is keen and available at the time.
I'm not sure on the esturine habits of the Hector's dolphin but it seems od that almost all other estuaries are still open.
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What about a flounder longLine? Might work?
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Snorkel and a fork bro
Can you still drag net?
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Yes the great thing about the set net is being able to do it by myself at virtually any time and weather.
Spearing is restricted to the tide being low in the evening with no or little wind and the weather being calm and dry with small tides for a week previous to get the water clear.
Dragnet is probably the way forward but need minimum two players for that.
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Elaine bay today
Dolphins were awesome [emoji106]
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Fishing was rubbish tho [emoji3]
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It would be worth giving rod and line a go for flounder. They do it in a lot of other countries and the flounder have to eat something!
Yes I have already given that quite a few goes and chucked a fair few dollars at the tackle shop owners.......I got lots of hits but not hookups.
Just using the smallest jig heads and soft baits I could find in the local shops ( designed for trout I think)
The idea definitely has merit tho just need to get some smaller versions of those fly type things the Americans use for "fluke" fishing I recon and clear enough water for them to see them in.
If Im not gonna catch enough to feed the neighborhood it needs to be fun to warrent the effort.
Tide times are very gentlemanly Sat morning but I will be working.....id like one of my nets to be out there doing it....
I dont care if you cut a ray out of it and fill it full of weed its going to have to be reslung and converted into a drag net anyway.
IF you can start a outboard and know what end of a oar to hang onto its yours for Sat. @Pengy @stingray @mikee @deer243 @madjon_ @Kiwi Greg @Shearer @kukuwai and any other local member is welcome to take it out and have a crack and get a feed.
Cheers Cam. Generous offer but I won't be in the area Saturday.
What a GC, VC [emoji23]
We will still be in the sounds, heading home sat morning. Im hoping to put my net in on sunday morning tho.[emoji106]
Gotta get some more use out of it, running out of time !!
Hope someone takes you up on your very generous offer [emoji106][emoji106]
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