Not for me , I squeal and fin fast ...how ever my dive buddy has short fins and not a great deal of experience...he’s a top bloke but by hell I will miss him!
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Not for me , I squeal and fin fast ...how ever my dive buddy has short fins and not a great deal of experience...he’s a top bloke but by hell I will miss him!
Nice morning on the water this morning. The dawn broke to some funky clouds....
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There ended up being boats all over the place. Best conditions on a saturday for a few weeks so no surprise I guess [emoji106]
We were back in at the launching area at 10am with a few nice fat fish so nothing wrong with that [emoji3]
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By the time I had finished up with the cleaning of gear and filleting it was lunchtime and luckily for me it had been cooking itself [emoji41] Bloody tasty !!!
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After a couple of weeks struggling away with the old wishing sticks my knee has finally freed up enough to go for a swim. Just in time for Johnny season. Saw heaps took a couple and left the rest for another day. Bloody good conditions in close at the momenthttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f0abc285af.jpg
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Out Friday with a mate, 10 good snapper and some big gurnard in just a few hours was great.
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Some bloody nice looking fish in that bin @veitnamcam. Well done on the biggest snap, what was the comp??
We went a grabbed a few of these today
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Very nice day out in Marahau, thought there might have been a few more people out there being a weekend and good weather but no very very quiet !!
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Had a good morning on the red fin Perch.
Gave the boat a run for first time since last salmon season. Fed the family.
Highly underrated table fish. Was friggen awesome. [emoji106] https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b307919bc3.jpg
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Was that setline or rod?Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
we had a good run on the setlines on friday....no bites on the rod thou
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They do look tasty, what do you call Red Perch (what else do you call them)?Quote:
Originally Posted by R93
Only one on the strayline rest on longline....I think I saw your boat out....whats its name?Quote:
Originally Posted by screamO
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They're fresh water Red Fin perch.Quote:
Originally Posted by screamO
Don't know what else they may call them.
Plentiful in a few lakes and creeks around the West Coast.
Arguably the best eating fresh water fish imo.
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Rampage
Perca fluviatalis [sp]. Pretty fish that eats just about anythingQuote:
Originally Posted by R93
Didnt know we got them here, yanks certainly love them. Are they an import?Quote:
Originally Posted by R93
Yes they're an import from Europe via Aussie I believe. Had another good couple hrs on them this morning. Had a fella from Europe with me and he was buzzing as he chases them at home but reckons theyre not as big as we get. Caught a couple of these on soft baits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick-D
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Perch are a game fish under F&G rules, so you may return them and bag limits exist on some waters.
Water temp has hit 17 degrees here still murky but kings are about ...spat farms should be lively from now on
Had a great time at the alderman islands over the weekend. Managed third place in the measure and release section with a 104 on my home made popper, first cast too ;)
Nephew got his PB kingi at 93cm and took out heaviest fish for a junior with a pb 3.8kg snapper
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Awesome [emoji106][emoji106]
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I wonder if they have been eating Refugee's ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
Not quite the same as the fish in the US. They do look like BassQuote:
Originally Posted by Nick-D
That's wicked. Well done young fella.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Any locals want to go for a snapper in the morning?
yep :) but not local enough unfortunately
Dammit. We are busy.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Unbelievably the wife wants to come...so position filled.
Will be only the second time ever in any of my boats.
Good luck VC :)
Have you asked before?? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Many times...I gave up asking years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beaker
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Good well VC and Mrs VC ..bloke at work got four keepers 35cm + off boulder bank 15 meters Thursday evening ..other bloke got 4 kings last Sat kept two , out Wednesday night got one , out again this morning started work late got none ...bait has moved on no sign at all.
Forecast gone from really good till lunch to experienced crew who like getting wet��.
Think I'll bow out and do some shit work round home .
You didn't miss much....I took the family out Sat morning, the weather was pretty good till lunch time. Two setlines deployed at spot X, same as last week........NOTHING!Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Has anyone heard of any Tuna in the bay yet?
Yip, Bay of Plenty :P
Nope but must be soon?
Usually find the first ones turn up on the cape soucis side.Quote:
Originally Posted by screamO
For the last few years it is has been much later (feb, march) before they are caught in consistent numbers off tonga, separation etc.
At least that is what we have found. Usually when we have gone out looking for them earlier we just end up catching kingis.
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Bugger. Catching Kingfish eh. That must be very disappointing.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
Sorry i didn't mean to sound ungrateful [emoji14]Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Its actually heaps of fun [emoji106]
One thing that we do that works really well is have a rod on standby all rigged up with a jig (right up your ally ah shearer)
Often heaps of kingis follow up the hooked fish and someone who is free starts working the jig. More often than not this leads to another hooked fish.
It has even worked once with tuna, we had two hooked on the trolling lures and when we could see them mum dropped the jig (on this occasion a shimano bottom ship) and it instantly hooked another tuna.
It lead to total bedlam as there were only 3 of us on the boat but we eventually got them all in [emoji106]
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Gulf harbor to tuts tomorrow, then NE for the warm water line... Stick face possible, and hapuka higher.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Bring on the next 6 days!!!
That not the BoP :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Beaker
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Bit of a chop....
It's blowing hard up here.
