Bugger!
Be sure that he/she WILL be replaced Joe.
PNL may have a hand in the financial side of it, if you get my drift
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Bugger!
Be sure that he/she WILL be replaced Joe.
PNL may have a hand in the financial side of it, if you get my drift
All sorted @Pengy ..good people surround us!
In years to come the old soldier will be found by some grey haired old gent while dredging for seaweed and despite the rust and the barnacles it will be lovingly restored and presented to the national museum to exhibit as a reminder of the days when the men and women of New Zealand were free to fish wherever and whenever they wanted. The great grandchildren of current day greenies eating their soy fibre toast at the breakfast table will question why Kiwi blokes and blokesses were ever prohibited from harvesting such an abundant and valuable resource.
Sorry Joe, I got a bit carried away musing on a possible parallel world.
@Rushy that is priceless :thumbsup:..still chuckling away . Well played sir!
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This happened to me this morning. Big Bronzy in Whangaroa harbour.
Got a Lovely veiw to drown my sorrows though.
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Still make a bit of sushi out of that man, . Bronzes do love an easy king. Weird thinh though is its quite common to see big kingis Nd trevs cruising with big bronzies on the reef, happy as Larry. As soon as you pop the fish Bronzy turns round and goes mental on it.
Yeah. Managed to salvage a bit out of it.
Well I was going to take my son and one of his mates out ski biscuiting today for a couple of hours near the top of the tide so I had taken all fishing related crap out of the boat to lighten it up then his mate had a crook guts so couldn't come.....it takes 3 to ski so that was now a no go so chucked some rods in the ute and went for a surfcast off of the road.
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Apparently I am shit at shore fishing so it was home to get some flounder fillets out of the freezer.
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Yum flounder fillets [emoji106]
Rare as rocking horse shit round here now !!!
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Back beach. Rig for Africa
Good on you for getting out into it at least.
I like the look of the beachy bit and casting out into the gap might chance on something passing by.
Got boat back from getting the new sounder fitted yesterday so time to plan a trip. 2 more days of work then a month off :)
West coast has been flat for a few days allowing things to settle. So shot out for a dive and fish, Handy festive supplies.
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Out of okiwi up to spot keith ,Aaron and I got pannies ..this time larger snaps showed up ..just one at a time , burnt 6kg of burley but when they bit ..wow freight trains ..running line in angry bursts..biggest 15 lbs 70cms not a great condition fish hungry and powerful..blue cod and carrots filled the gaps..young folk dived new turf scratched around plenty of caves cracks and holes and weed but very few bugs
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Yip she’s a slayer ...bashed the carrots hard today down at big cod rock ..was chucking back sizeable fish, keeping 10 carrots Xxl fish ...then rang to tell me about it ...ma n da sorted a feed of blues ..glad I’m at work ...imagine being amongst that ...would have been painful! ..
.keels wants to know if your coming ...she knows a good spot .if your keen ......dear god you’ve created a monster VC ...shame on you
Slow fishing on the last day of 2020. Dinner party saved by a very welcome john dory at 2.6kg!
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A horse of a JD
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Good few hours out from raglan today
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Epic new year's day ...talked VC into coming down earlier than stupid o'clock...poor barstard was up way to early...packed boat night before..up and down to ramp to float the boat before it became impossible.
Parked truck ..got back to the bost to find VC and jrVC chucking in their gear ..happy new year ...down to pass to chase kings ....Whales ..in current basin ...oil calm spent an hour whale watching...fished pass to much current
Off to other spots plus one more whale watch ..saw a school of kings gulping krill..no joy on the jigs ...got to our hunting ground ..bombed down a couple of long lines ..kings under the boat..mild panic from me ...hooked a keeper ..put it back e expecting more joy ...nope that was that..
Went deep chasing snaps ..1st line down... trying to rig up a stray line ..bang we were on ...half grown snaps....carrots came on the chew ..boated a good dozen ..the VC hooks a screamer ...looks good pulling line and VC working it hard ...gone pulled the hook ..wind kicked up so pulled the hook lines ..one wee tangle .couple of snaps gumboots and grey boys ..
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The codfather.
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Whales
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Eating this stuff.
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Just awesome.
Couldn't have had a better start to the year.
Towing???
Yeah poor bugger main motor packed a sad ..I'm picking the power coil ..then excillary gave trouble as well ..just not his day
Nice Cod :)
I went out yesterday. Sorry no pics as it was first time in more than a year, and since hitting the bar on the way in so I was a bit twitchy to cover all my bases 20 times over.
Left the ramp at 9.30 ( 12pm high) was a bit choppy on the way out but calmed down once out there and the breeze dropped off. Anchored up in 20m and burlyied up a storm. Not even a bite for 1.5hrs and watched as others moved off out into deeper water and puttered around the place. Then the fish came onto the bite just after high. Ended up with 6 Gurnard, a Kahawai and lost a 5lb travelly at the boat ( note to self give my mate a few pointers with the net). Anywho went to come in and oh joy motor wont start, and after a few cranks the battery was flat ( fully charged before I left). Looks like my new big sounder sucks the power big time. I used to leave the little garmin on while I fished but will now be turning off the Raymarine while I'm anchored. Lucky I took a jump start power pack out with me or I would have had to call up a someone to give me a boost.
I'm guessing that although the motor cranked over for a few times, the because the battery was so low I might not have been getting a good spark ?. Despite that it was a good day on the drink and after having a chat to a couple of guys on the ramp, it seems a few were not having any more luck out wide. I will stick with my anchor up and burly technique since it has worked every time so far.
What sort of boat? Might pay to look at a separate house battery with a vsr charging /transfer / parallel switch.
I have this setup, and after leaving sounder, radio, vhf, under water lights, all turned on - the house battery does get down a bit. I don't think it would start the motor actually.
Maybe 400-500$, if you do it yourself
521 Mclay. looks like the sounder sucks 20W which doesn't sound like much. It might be my battery even though I fully charged it, it is 6 years old I've just worked out. Like you say I might end up running another battery but it's a pretty small boat
yea 6 years is good service for any battery and I wouldn't let my boat battery get that old regardless of how reliable it may seem.
To be fair though when I am using my boat you often can't see land for most of the trip so a bit harder to call up a tow.
and a house battery is a good option to consider if you have room,charging capacity etc.
Can have more light,sounds ,whatever without having the concern of running starting battery flat.
FYI, just bought a couple of new batteries for my cruiser from battery cell ,couriered to my door for about 2/3 price from battery shops
I think I'd get a new battery first, then try again.
6 years is a old battery in a trailer boat.
Mine are nearly 3 years, and I'm going to replace the start battery in the next few months, just as insurance maintenance.
At the same time I'll get both load tested, and maybe put the current start as the house bat, then new one next year.
Yeah Beaker will do. I will also turn off the sounder when the motor is off until I get an auxiliary battery.
All I can say is yay for those Lithium ion jump starter packs :)
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Nice travers :)
That is about the size of the one we lost at the boat :oh noes: they make pretty good Sashimi :). I remember the day most people thought they were only good for bait.
Bloody good start to 2021 :D
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What a beauty , well done
Awesome MB, looks like your gonna need a bigger tape measure :)
That must have put up quite a fight