I believe they come up the coast and roll into the bay so if your getting them hopefully it won't be long before some show up here [emoji106]
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I'd heard they come down the coast - they show up in Westport then Grey then here
All a mystery to me
Great fun. A different fight to a kingi or a KY.
All I know, is blue water and 18 degrees.... knock em and bleed em straight away ...chuck them in a salt ice slurry more ice the better. They run hot and spoil fast ..dark lures ,blue , black worked down off greymouth for us. Almost bird like beak so long sharp hooks
Finally today I thought the back was good enough to go fishing. Punishing being laid up in the best spell of weather in ages.
Out of Delaware on the incoming so not on the water till 830ish with a workmate, blue water right into the coast....could see bottom clearly from boat in 8m water!
Out to where I would usually fish this time of year and sharked out.....50 50 go deeper or fish the coast.
Went with fish the coast as for once I had chucked the 223 in and workmate was pretty keen on some meat for biltong.
Goats were plentiful and reasonably tame along this bit of coast but with a certain local utuber giving them a curry up of late they have got rather shy.
Blue cod were surprisingly plentiful in decent legal size.....moved out to get away from them and got pannies and more cod all the while whatching a small mob of goats that were annoyingly about 500m away from public land.
Got a couple of feeds and cruised up the coast, marked some rocks and come in on the high.....had to wait a bit to get trailer in.
There's a guy with the cowling off winding and winding and winding his motor over without a single fire....couple of mins of that and I couldn't help myself and I had to yell out" stop fucking winding it or you will burn out your starter motor!!!"
Got on the trailer and went and give him a hand...pulled plugs full throttle and wound over while it pumped fuel out, dried fuel and oil off plugs on my t shirt and checked for spark...all good, refitted and full throttle start lots of smoke then all good.
Stop restart all good. "Have you at least got some spare plugs" I asked as he was about to leave to go fishing " no but I dont think I will go far now"...:oh noes:
Hopefully he at least learned how to start his outboard.......for a shitty old boat and an old motor it had a bloody amazingly good battery!
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Your a GC VC ..okiwi next weekend spare beds
Good on ya VC [emoji106] I've said it before but ill say it again.."there are muppets everywhere" [emoji41]
Shame about the 'youtuber' and the goats (news to me) but in my opinion youtube is right up there with 1080 and thermals... buggering a few spots around here that's for sure !!!!
Hope your back is 100% soon mate [emoji106]all the best ah !!
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Today was probably the best day to get the yak out this year. Unfortunately work wasn't playing ball. I could be persuaded to move somewhere with less of the blowy stuff, not sure the boss would be so easy to convince.
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Had a ball up the Island with the family, spent four days up there. The weather wasn't really what I was expecting but at least it wasn't too hot.
Friday night we were straight on to the snaps (pannies), one boy got a double hook up and announced it was the best day of his life.
Kids have so much energy.......they were up early and bed late, swimming, fishing and kayaking all day.
The fishing was a bit slow Sat, Sun and Monday but good size cod and something I havent seen landed for sometime a John Dory
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Love seeing John Dory ...what an amazing fish! Young folk go and go ...and eat and eat ..then fish / swim and repeat! But you know that ..it just gets more expensive as the volume of tucker inhaled increases every bloody month!
Funny you ask that...there we are fishing away at black reef, big hook ups and then a line comes in all tangled and stuff. Thinking its my line that's been caught up in all this I disconnect his trace (cut it in to lots of pieces) and worked out it was just a heap of braid from some other poor suckers line. So what's a man spose to do??? we pull in this line and guess what's on the end off it???? yep one of those stupid expensive jig things. Not to let an opportunity pass by, we hook this stupid thing up to a rod and fuck me .
True story....
Quick lunchtime mission today. Fishy as and the vis was mint. Havnt hunted snaps in ages so was good to get on the snoop
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Snaps at 35 meters ..crays very shallow..another young bloke hooked ...priceless
Had great plans for this weekend.... they all got cancelled.
Tweeked the back on sat so rested up sun and got the boy out of bed at 2:45am this morning, loaded bait ice burly food and coffee and was off to golden bay and pick up Dad who was caravaning without a boat to go slay some panni snaps.
Burly in while still dark and just getting light as all the rods were in.
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We were into them pretty much straight away but the current wasn't doing what I thought it was so swapped burly position to Dads side and while he was doing that he dropped his line and left it in free spool....:omg:
Lets just say 5 snapper on 5 different rods all tangled together....If you have been there you will feel my pain.
So unclipped dads rig who the promptly clipped on another and was dropping back down while he left me to deal to the fish and the flasher rig tangle from hell!!!.
Eventually I got it sorted and Dad and Son are bringing them in flat out.
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Nothing big but everything well and truly legal, we were putting back any smaller ones as long as they hadn't blown their arse out( only 18m)
As the current dropped so did the bite rate, chilly bin looking rather full Dad only wanting a couple and me not looking forward to filleting heaps of fish by myself we came in and were on the trailer at 9.
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Dropped off a trail of fish to freinds on the way home and job done....now to fillet whats left.
VC feel your pain ...folks asked me to crew with them today with da's service man mate ..all good ..out to snapper depth..dropped first burley...must have being a watery brew as it was gone in 30 mins ..second one in few carrots , Kawhai, cod , snakes.current running large snake round burley pot, round other lines etc etc ...but cunning stingray had prepared...clips on all lines and spare traces pretied in snaplock bags ...so cut cut rig rig easy as ...
Now the shit hit the fan ..lost a couple of hooks so Da his mate decide to "sort this barstard out "...wire traces abound ..now what the fuck do two wobbly old men want to tangle with a toothy powerful animal for ...because one encourages the other and stupidity results !
So sure enough a bite is felt and the battle begins ...not much of a fight ...well a reasonable size blue is soon on the surface being leed to the boat like a dog on a lead.....now I was hauling burley pots and telling others to clear lines ...all to no availe...said blue sharks says bugger this put on a powerful run around the boat ..now everyone is involved ...Da's yelling mostly at me for some reason ...a bit at Ma which isn't ever a good idea..Dave the invite is yelling advice at Da and heckling and scorning me for again for reasons I don't understand.
Me I'm arming myself with a blunt fucking knife and a pair of pliers...so now we have three grey haired battlers locked in a stalemate with a pissed off shark ...and some how it's now my problem ...bloody fantastic!
Wrangled the blue to the boat , powerful bloody animal ..got it semi subdued..and away ...Da and Dave congratulate each other ..being navy men with years of experience how well the managed the situation...me I cursed them both and threaten them with blunt bloody bait knife ..Ma saw the funny side of it all bless her.
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Ha Ha bloody classic....I can just imagine it too.:D
war stories, almost.
Out with VC gentleman hours ..epic dive ..saw good number of crays..had some success..fishing slow as tide ran out ...so cod bashing time
Well that is gentleman fishing, burnt couple of burleys brim and small cod ..great company nice dive saw a few well tucked away...fluked a couple of keepers..yarned laughed and bullshited the afternoon away .. cheers VC that's what life is all about
Upper Waingawa (Eastern Tararuas) for three days. Weapon of choice: Scott Radian 6wt. I haven't got out much with this rod yet, so this will be an opportunity to give it a good work out. Will take both 6wt and 7wt lines to see it I prefer having it overlined as some do. I'm expecting a reasonable number of hook-ups on 3-5lb browns. Hopefully no-one else in there, though there is plenty of water to divi up if there is.
Photos @Puffin photos, and a story or three to boot
Sometimes the fishing is too good! First couple of drops yesterday morning and enough fish for the week. Now what? Very short fishing trip.
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No story (not really my thing sorry), though we did visit a few places like this...
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...and saw a few of these...
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Spectacular scenery and weather for the whole trip.
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Had a cracker morning at 32 metres in Tasman bay with 17 snapper caught all before 7 30 and back at the ramp by 930
Hey ,
Do any of you other lads with sea salt in their blood , do well off the set line but do absolute crap off the rods ?
Go out off wanags and do alright but could do alot better , pretty much saved by the fact we have set lines down.
WICKED! :cool::redbullsmiley::cool:
Off Kawhia or Raglan ??
How did you get it in the boat ??
Awesome. Looks like it was a slow learner..