Glad you fellas had a good day. [emoji106]
Well done on the gurnard....so tasty!!
Skin on fillets all round [emoji6]
My favourite [emoji41]
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Glad you fellas had a good day. [emoji106]
Well done on the gurnard....so tasty!!
Skin on fillets all round [emoji6]
My favourite [emoji41]
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Our day was one of learning , and success and honest enjoyment of life , dug some very solid carrots ( well VC did) a couple pushing 46/7 cm ..then we did some cruising at low tide marking up weedy rocks and cray looking turf .
Then at the low tide, we chose a flat part of the beach and then found out bigger is not better as a 40 meter braid net is bloody heavy to work , and if you had tide or weed it would be impossible .. we were very lucky and managed sole , diamond and yellow belly flounder with limited weed.
The day finished perfectly with Pengy stopping in on his way from town , Keith drove past as we yarned and swapped stories , VC called him to come back and get a feed of fresh fish ...so we had an informal NZHS gathering told yarns and finished the day with handshakes and warmth.
Again this forum shows how great it is to be part of this community! 4 souls yarning on the side of the road , laughing yarning and enjoying a debrief ...thanks to you all !! Thanks VC what a epic day!
@Gibo gave me a Tarakihi spot out from Tauranga, every time I have been out to it this guy is there, Hey Gibo is this your boat. :D Attachment 168663 :P Attachment 168664
Epic man!Quote:
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Yep that’s @Gibo small tub for Tera and Snapper, should see his big one for all his Te Haku (Kingis).
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Funny looking tarakihi ;)Quote:
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Not my boat but that looks like a good size terakihi ;)Quote:
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@Gibo - I picked up a rig on Marketplace that should be good to cast lures for kingfish – Penn reel and 8.3 JM rod plus 4 dangerous looking stick baits – some guy tried it a couple of times and found the gold handle didn’t catch the fish, so he took a big loss and moved it on – a bit the same results for me so far but I am keeping it
We tried Pudney the last day of the flat sea before the latest big swells – about eight boats out there including a fishing charter with about 12 rods – didn’t see anyone catch a decent fish and didn’t see any kings flashing around (like last time) so after a couple of hours so we moved in a bit closer – found several good workups of young kahawai – tried casting in and around them and they came all around the boat - but the cast lure seemed to chase them away – gave up and came back in to about 30m and put some bait over the side – got a few snaps and a feel of a fish on an 8 foot rod – should be interesting with a kingfish heading off into the distance
Jeeze – those lures with two sets of treble hooks are lethal around your hands
I live in hope to catch my first kingfish – I might need you to come out and show me how Gibo
It is going to get crowded on Pudney when they close the reefs around Motiti in August – some guys in a flash Stabicraft with a GPS controlled electric sea anchor parked about 20m in front of me – I couldn’t get my anchor off and needed to run forward but they wouldn’t move - so I had to drag it off backwards – why do people want to anchor so close???
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Swap them out for singles. BKK make a good hook [emoji106]Quote:
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These doubles catch n hold and not as dangerous to the fisho. Attachment 168795 These work well. Attachment 168796
Makes you wish you had a couple dozen rotten eggs on board ay.Quote:
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Those doubles are illegal if you follow igfa rules. So are trebles unless in a rigid lure.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeeMan
I run assist style singles @Timeout. No where near as hard on the fish (or a human) and the big kings cant get them into a position to bend them open or out
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Gosh, you make works of art Gibo.
Thanks :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel Kwon
Gets pretty quiet in close for Kings this time of year man. Tuhua is the best bet over winter. Schooner holds a few later into the season as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by time out
Yep it's gunna suck for kingfishing having the reefs gone. Ironically it's a healthy fishery as well. Motiti never seems to be as reliable.
Out n about this morning ...did some miles sea conditions spot one were rubbish , got two spot two a bit late in the flood
Bugger
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Yea can't help mother nature tho ay......we have killed our share and tnen some so due a miss I recon.
I busyed myself casting some warp weights for the dragnet this arvo..... that little kovea stove I got given as a present when I was a teenager...has been on almost every trip since and melted a hell of a lot of lead on one canister.....just a bit careful how full I got the pot! Its a lot of weight in there even a third full of molton lead!
That really rips my nighty when that happens,^^^^
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Apparently I am not allowed to post pictures today sorry.
:pissed off:Quote:
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Good for a laugh - boating yesterday – that was about all it was!
Hadn’t had much luck on Okapara or Pudney lately - FB posts seem to indicate there were plenty of Snaps still being caught along Matakana – so why not give that a try
In the water about 10.00 – a boat at the ramp had plenty of Snaps – they said – halfway along Matakana in 13m and they cleaned up in an hour
So off we went – but the Bay of Empty did the job again – should have gone to Okapara before they closed it
And so did my fuel tank – I had been convinced on previous trips that it was playing up and the tank was quite full – so just put 20 litres in for the short trip up Matakana – the bastard ran out on the way back 100m from the ramp – I normally have a spare 10 litre container – but not this time – no problem – let’s get the auxiliary going – must be a year or so since I did that – a long way from the small tank under the driver’s seat back to the motor – lots of hand pumping and pull starting – and away she went – thank goodness for an auxiliary
Second time that an auxiliary has got me out of trouble – back in 2000 – my brand new 200 HP Johnson shit itself 10km down the SW coast from Plimmerton – a frost plug developed a pin hole and hosed the inside of the engine cowling with water – the electrics shit themselves – but at least we had a 15 HP Johnson and an hour or two to look at a bin full of Teras on the way back to the ramp
So if my Yamaha fuel gauge indicates just two bars – its likely just got 20 litres of gas in the tank and when the last bar starts flashing – it is just about empty!
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The ol inboard tank level drama.
The thing to do is from dead empty.. run out... put 20l in.....check gauge......put another 20l in....check gauge....another 20 etc.
Do this from empty in your normal boat parking spot (from a 20l container )
Once at a known quantity of fuel be sure to check your gauge again when in the water at the ramp while mate parks ute/trailer........guages can read different depending on the attitude of the boat but you will get to know if there is any difference .
Have been fučl embarrassed before myself......due to topping up on not level ground and thinking I had more than I did.
Thankfully working on the 1/3 1/3 1/3 theroy one third there, one third back, one third for shit weather and or fuckups got back with fuel to spare but a lot closer than I would like.
yes fuel embarrassment can be problematic......
Silly boy @stingray made the mistake of messaging me last night that he had a tank and gear at home....early oclock picked him up and out into the darkness to catch the tide.
5knots into the ink following the snail trail and lamps keeping an eye on the shore lots of fish were jumping/flying out of the water just on the edge of the ambient light from the boat and our headlamps etc.....turn to look and they disappear.....I think they may have been flying fish but couldn't get a decent look.
Out into bay, check pot dropped last night. One conger eel.
Wee fish waiting for light....pretty slow but I snagged a decent kahawai on a little micro jig thing.
In to the coast to drop the fish on spot x.
His bubbles never moved :thumbsup:
Up with a feed of bugs and they even had legs!:thumbsup::D
I managed a couple of small snapper while watching bubbles.... Both were legal but one was bin worthy just.
Prospected a couple of other spots.
Into the beach to have a drag for some flats.
Drag one fail.
Drag two fail.
Fark it we have a feed lets go home.
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Cheers Joe.
Heaps of snapper round Motiti today man, had multiple pannies on every kina burley I dropped. Shot a couple then went and grabbed some bugs. Even managed to find a packy. Good cray numbers in shallow with plenty of bucks around. Bloody good day out in the end. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...eeccf957aa.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...109c03b219.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...bcec547a74.jpgQuote:
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Do the packys taste/texture much different to the spinys?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick-D
Havnt eaten them side by side actually, but not much in it I don't think. They have pretty big tails so you get a bloody good feed of them. A just legal packy is a bloody big cray too. More the novelty of finding them than anything else. Much less common than the reds hereQuote:
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I have never seen one or even heard of one round here.....NI only?Quote:
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Yeah I think so, get more common the further north you goQuote:
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I have seen a couple caught off westhaven Cam. Check this out....
Packhorse rock lobsters are widely distributed, as far north as the Kermadec Islands, south to Foveaux Strait, and east to the Chatham Islands. They are fished mainly in the far north of NZ. (They also occur in eastern Australia – northern Victoria and New South Wales – where they are commonly called the eastern rock lobster).
https://nzrocklobster.co.nz/lobster-...orth%20of%20NZ.
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My best mate bought a new boat a couple of weeks ago, so we hatched a plan to get out and spill some blood on the decks. I'm not much of a fisherman, generally opting to remove fish's choice from the equation by shooting the buggers while they're not looking (spearfishing). My mate is a hard core fisho, so between us we were pretty confident of sorting a feed.
We started off softbaiting in the shallows, and by lunchtime had failed to get on the board. I decided to jump in and see if I could get a shaft into something, but was on a 1hr time limit. That was as big a fail as the softbaiting. I didn't even see a table fish! We decided to anchor up and get the burley pumping and try our hand at straylining. But we hadn't brought any bait or burley... I hopped back in and shot a few big silver drummer that would do the trick.
The last few hours of light were spent drifting big chunks of drummer down the burley trail in 15m of water. After about an hour, things ramped up nicely and we boated a dozen good eaters in the 40‐45cm range plus a couple of bigger 4‐7lb models (and released another handful of easily legal fish) and got dusted by a couple of big buggers getting to ground on light gear in shallow water.
The day was topped off nicely with my mate landing a ripper of a fish after a couple of smoking runs that we were sure would end in a bust off.
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Went 23.5lb
Shit that is a bloody ripper [emoji106]
Nice way to christen the new boat [emoji41]
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Nice fish
Shit yeah, mean fishQuote:
Originally Posted by Dorkus
Bloody cracker! Nice dark color too.
My Wanganui Sweet Spot -
We used to live in Palmy and along with other places we would fish out of the Wanganui River mouth – a light NE wind with an outgoing anticyclone worked well
Before the days of GPS sounders – we used markers off the local coast and back to the ranges – pretty rough to mark a spot but it sometimes worked well and there were heaps of cod around
I recall one day finding a slimy mould covered buoy floating on the surface – so I picked it up and rolled up the line and grapple – we then put the rods over and all hell broke loose – big blues and plenty of them – but in those days no GPS to record it
But we found our sweet spot around 1999 when we were fishing off the Wanganui coast – and we had a sounder to record the coordinates
I have an old Wanganui friend who fished out of the Wanganui River for most of his life – I gave him these coordinates and he also enjoyed the results for many years – I called him a few days back and found he has sold his boat and now just fishes off the beach with a drone – he left his sounder in the boat with all his sweet spots – so there may be others who now know my spot – it is listed as my name “F…… O.. Cod spot”
I left Palmy about 16 years ago so never went back to fish out through Wanganui River mouth
From memory this spot is about 10km out and a bit north of Wanganui – picture of an old friend from Palmy pulling up the cod this day in fabulous conditions
So here is my sweet spot - I hope someone can try it out and enjoy it like we did!
Lat 39*59.018 S Lon 174*45.392 E – hope the format is ok
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Nice fish and good on you for sharing that. I'm sure someone on here will benefit from it. I see you didn't much around with light gear for the cod:DQuote:
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Forecast looks good and I have other things to do up there so I'm going to chuck the boat in at French Pass on Saturday, anyone have any data regarding whether kingis will still be around the pass itself or whether I'll have to go further up?
