Looks pretty awesome, let us know if it tastes like an orange carrot or has a bit of lemon zing :)
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Looks pretty awesome, let us know if it tastes like an orange carrot or has a bit of lemon zing :)
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Originally Posted by 6x47
Looks like one hell of a sweet day :)
I like ya bait board rocket launcher set up. I'm trying to decide if I design and build something similar, or just buy something close. Mine didn't come with a bait board.
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Thanks.Quote:
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Get one with a draw underneath (for tackle) . Also, not one with a lip - like this. It's a pain. Need one that's flat onto the board, so you can skin fillets....
Flounder Friday ..offered up a few spots to blokes from work for a after work beer ..chuck a net and bloke into the tide see if we could harvest a few flats …well only one took up the offer.
So rung round the blokes and hooked one.
So dropped tools, headed to the wet stuff ..found the tide still holding in the estuary, so had a beer and a explore …hadn’t fished here since before the big rains ..
Things certainly had changed sand banks had moved and our regular dragging channel was non existent it was now eel grass filled rapid of depth and widths …the bottom of it is now a wide shallow bank filled with rottin shell …
Cleared the net again with no result , found a clean patch dragged that slowly with a strong ebbing tide ….new mate called bites and I replied I’m think old stinker is in my side …hauled the net and Roktoy lifted the flatty out of the net …old stinker got worked up and wanted out …so rolled the net off him and sent on his way .
I called for another spot and we binned the net only to find another couple of bonus flatties hiding quietly in the drag..
Next spot saw the flood push , Aaron harvested cockles and we dragged a net full of weed and a we treat of another flatty plus a very tame and polite 50 -60 kg ray he sat in the drag allowed us to drop the net ..then unfortunately exploded swam back into the net got its barb tangled , sat sulking as we shook it loose again, gave us the big finger with a shower of water and sand as it headed away , a beautiful powerful creature lined with blue and cream lines ..that was us packed our rig and changed into dry cloths.
Sun set into our eyes pulled into my place shared the fish , yarned a bit more before letting my guests go to prepare for a day of fishing with VC tomorrow..slayem guys your deserve a good run after your patience this arvo. Cheers for your efforts!
Up this morning a bit foggy and well over tired.
Roktoy and Son arrived....I got a txt "are we early?" Well maybe that depends if I said quarter to or quarter past and I can't remember :D
Out to Grossies point to launch, we were just casting off and a yell from shore and @kukuwai was just launching too.
Straight out to random spot but depth that has been producing dropped a longline then burlyed hard.
5kilo salmon burly didn't last long and two more pilchard burlys sure did the trick.
Mini me was first on the board as usual with a little snap we put back then Keith got this nice fish.
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I managed one similar then was pretty busy doing skipper type stuff netting fish pumping burly etc.
The boys wore themselves out catching fish and ended up leaving us oldys to it as the burly petered out.
We released a fair few legal but smaller fish pulled up longline for three more nice snapper.
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Frickin awesome Cam & @ROKTOY [emoji106]
I should have just had the one coffee this morning we would have been there at the same time [emoji41]
Had a wee chuckle to myself, looked like a full boat. Not surprized you were busy on board cam.
It was actually the second day in a row for me and the young fella. Teachers only day at the primary school yesterday so only one thing to do on a teachers only day !!
Yesterdays fishing was pretty sharp, exactly the same spot but much quieter today for us.
No complaints tho as still managed a mean feed, living the dream i reckon
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The boy managed to catch this today so i deployed it on my bait runner. Might have been a bit shallow for a JD but when ever possible im gunna send out a live bait in hope [emoji1696]
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Don't think i would get away with three mornings in a row but shit I'm keen [emoji106]
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@kukuwai Chaos onboard when there are three fish hooked up and one net to go round. Im a rookie so only mildly useful.
Go three for three you know you want to.[emoji106]
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Yea I really need to have a dedicated live bait rig set up ready to go in the tackle box for just such a situation. ...often think it but haven't acted on it....yet.Quote:
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Small livies catch all sorts of interesting things. I don't do any bait fishing, but make an exception when an appropriately sized baitfish comes aboard.
Jealous as hell! Great results for guys getting up early and putting the effort in! From what I heard over drinks tonight you did very well, Nelson ramp and out wide 30 meter + spikes and small Kahawai …
Sent Dad 10m Friday.....he slayed it heading home by 9am.....cousin went 20m got owned by spikys.Quote:
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Tell me to mind my own northern business, but if spiny dogfish are such a problem down there and snapper are the target, I'd be polishing my lure fishing skills.
Yes we do lure fish to try avoid them, do catch less but still catch them.Quote:
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The main problem with them is our southern sailfish are extremely attracted to lures and that gets expensive.
The spikeys become less of a problem from now threw to late summer, yesterday we caught well over 20 snapper and only had one bycatch of a kahawai .
Can you guys smoke us up a few snapper and post em off to the UK for me and Mrs Sideshow :thumbsup: plz:)
Shit, rock and hard place! We get coutta up here in the winter. Don't mind catching the odd one to liven up a quiet day, but as you say, it can get expensive with lures. My regular fishing buddy practices catch, kill and release.Quote:
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Best defense I have found is to fish shallow while the water is cold.Quote:
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The snapper here go deep during winter anyway and most of that westcoast/outersounds/cook straight area is really out of reach in my wee boat.
We should have at least 5 months of good snapper fishing for little fuel use ahead of us tho.
With the best forcast I'd seen in a while myself and the missus decided to take the wee surtees out wide to mayor for a spear and an explore, goal was to cover some ground shoot a few different species and have a poke around to see if we could locate and tick off a giant boarfish.
Easy run out and upon arriva was greeted with millpond seas, 20m vis and about 30 boats on tahua reef.
Jumped in and the missus shot a butter and I plugged a good eating kingy within about 20 minutes, had seen a few sharks allready and they came in quickly after the king so we called that good and shot inshore to try a new spot and have a look for a some snaps. Quick swim at the next spot spooked a 20 pounder and shot a decent fish on the snoop. Box ticked we shot around the corner to the paua spot, jumping in on a couple of weedlines on the way.
Saw a bunch more kings and grabbed a few snails then back down to try and finally find the elusive boarfish.(they have been my spearo achillies heel, been hunting them for 3 years without luck)
Worked a weedline out deeper finding a pressure spot in about 17m that was holding some bait, did a couple of drops, and sitting out over the sand, a bloody boarfish! had a bit of a round about swim to approach(had to swim up, along and the back down on top of it) was running out of puff and rushed the shot, bloody missed! Was feeling pretty blood pissed at myself, and spent the next 30 minutes combing the wider area looking for the fish, after a good 6 or 7 dives, saw a couple tanker kingis cruising in, one easily 30kg plus. Would have been my pb so started lining up on that and what swims along underneath? Another bloody boarfish! Likely the other fishes mate. Decisions were quickly made and I took off after the boarfish, which just tailed along 10m in front of me before spooking off into the weed. Gutted!
Did a few more dives, spewing that I'd missed an oppertunity on not one but 2! Was getting late and missus was on the boat keen to bail so called it last dive, big breathe up, dropped onto a perfect divot in the weed and started kicking up a little sand. hung out for 30 seconds or so and what do you know, our mate the boarfish comes cruising in to check out the commotion. no mistake this time, lined him up and put a spear through his brain. Super stoked, put a lot of effort trying to bag one of these. Easy cruise back and paua fritters for tea.
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Now that's a good day out. :cool:
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We went out to the Waikawau mussel farms yesterday. Made it a late start to avoid the queues. Worked out good. Ended up with 14 snapper 35 to 50 cm and a trevally.
Well I'm ready to leave but it's still an hour from when I said I would pick up my workmate..... IL give him another 15 Min he should be up by then?:thumbsup:
Nice VC. Who da man?
It's been a very good morning indeed, gone a bit quiet now the sun's up but I have a really really bloody happy SA workmate on board.Quote:
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So fishing insomnia struck again and I was wide awake at the stroke of midnight....oh well no excuse for forgetting anything now.
Got everything ready then cruised the forum for a bit killing time till I went to pick up workmate 45min early:D
We weren't the only early birds with a couple of others launching at the same time.
Pretty bloody dark and a bit of residual swell saw a slow cruise out only just on the plane.
Pre defrosted burly deployed and lines in water before 5am...no longline just bait and burly.
We dont have to wait long and my strayline starts to sing, it's the most beautiful sound:thumbsup: couple of winds and lift the rod and I'm on to a nice 10-12pounder who is fat hungry and full of fight, losing string get it back lose some more he put up a great fight in the still dark and shallow water.
Well If I was pleased to see him then he was even more pleased to see me because he was squirting sperm all over the boat.
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I landed another couple of fish and lost a goody( bloody burnsco rigs knots :omg:) then finally Theo got his shit together and caught a couple of makeral then snapper.
Then on his since passed father's rod and pen 2000 reel while wearing his dad's shirt he catches this beauty....fat pre spawn snapper.
It went on multiple big runs being in shallow water and eventually tangled in my strayline....we got it to the boat and I netted it.
Well to say the SA import was happy would be a massive understatement....well done him a new PB.
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He wanted to put it back and being only ten m deep I concurred that was a good Idea so after a couple photos and a measure it went back very much alive.:cool:
It went over 76cm and I estimate 18p.....hey they are so fat at the mo it might have been 20 plus.
We caught some more and released a few the sun came up and the current died as did the bite.
We cracked a beer to celebrate the new PB gutted the fish pulled the ankor.
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Dropped of some fish to family and Friend's on the way home.
Boat all cleaned up by 930am.
Wife cooked me breakfast while I cleaned the boat:thumbsup:
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How bloody good!:thumbsup:
That's outstanding Cam !!
The bit about your SA mate wearing his dads top and using his dads rod brings a bloody tear to the eye mate. What a fish, he should be stoked !! Respect for letting it go too [emoji41]
Also thanks for tormenting me with that first photo while i drank my coffee in the dark this morning [emoji3][emoji106]
Certainly today the old saying "the early bird gets the worm" rang true !!
We just mac'd out on these things.
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Interesting how they behave when brought on board the boat very tuna like (vibrating away)
Got a heap filleted up and in the brine ready for smoking up tomorrow [emoji2937]
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Bloody fantastic read! Great to see a horse like that able to returned in shallow water!
The import kayaked off ruby bay, got two very solid keepers and three Kahawai.
Me I went to work , jump started , and buggered about with broken and written off Aussie imports..enjoyed the company of a few red backs. Got home as the breeze kicked in and now have the pleasure of mowing lawns….
Well done Theo a bloody beauty!
Probably the most underrated fish in nz eating wise?? Bloody good smoked or sashimid. Look up a shime saba recipe if you want something different to try. So yum.Quote:
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That's a bloody nice snap vc. If not 20lb it's be bloody close. Still a fair young fish too. Should grow to be an absolute stonker. Good on your mate for throwing it back.
Hey @Nick-D cheers for that, I will definatly look up that recipe !!Quote:
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Is it a blue mackerel? We have never really caught them before, googled it and thought it might be but we wernt sure. Some of them were quite big like a kahawai size.
Interesting what you say about sashimi I said to the boys when were filleting them that it looked like it could be good for that. Should have tried it [emoji106]
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AGREE! One of very few fish we get excited about.Quote:
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Last time I looked, smoked blue mack was around 15 bucks per fish in freshchoice...and not big ones either
If I had suggested it, I would get shit for eating the bait :thumbsup:
Yup blue or jap mackerel. Delicacy in quite a few places but not that well known here. Quite an oily fish but super good when treated properly.Quote:
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It's a close relie to tuna, so good as raw.
That’s a bloody solid JD and a brilliant photo to boot! Fantastic colours!
Good stuff ,what a beauty of a fish and it gets to live another day [emoji106]
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Bugs were thick on the ground in the usual close to home spot, 40min dive between 2 resulted in 10 kept our allotted 6, hit the Terakihi rock for a few and a couple bonus snaps too ......lobster TV a great channel
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I use the hold in the mouth method but exactly like this.....might try this little finger trick tho.
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So get a call last Thursday "what you doing for the weekend? '. That lead to a nut drenching walk to a tender on Friday night off a beach.Attachment 184860 That lead to many beers while steaming north for a night at anchor. A couple more beers and rums, and a great feed of venison sausages.
Sat morning and bacon & eggs, coffee, and were under way. A couple of spots tried, and the bin got filled. And burnt to crap, sun cream should be used....
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Big feed of snapper for dinner (panko in air frier - a first for me. Bit of seaweed mixed with crumb. Very very nice, and has been repeated since). A early night.....
Sunday, cruising home, stopped for a few fish. Got a 61cm snap, in real good condition and fought like a rat King. Great fun.Attachment 184861
A few kawhai caught throughout as well.
Fantastic weekend. Much bullshit discussed and covid chat was banned - and we didn't fail on this :)
Geez I don't know, you high rollers and ya gin palaces :)
That's one hell of a snapper
Boss ring on Monday and reckons that we need a meeting today..... My boat this time (the weekend was on a mates 70ft 2600hp boat....)
Bit of a run out, about a hour, and sliders are deployed. Birds working, flat as, and in a patch away from other boats that seem to want to tangle each other together. You could just about jump from boat to boat.
A few solid 40 cm snaps on board.
Just drifting around and getting a stead stream of fish.
Do the "we're just about at limit, so another 5 mins and we're off" call. Then manage a 57cm snap in the closing 2 mins.Attachment 184862
A quick run back in (mirror flat and a nearly a full tank of dinosaurs, so gave it the jandle to clean the motor out ����
A few houses are having fish tonight for dinner!
Even the heads and frames
