Lol, not mine!!
32knots in mine is 50l per hour, his is close to 500.....
Bloody nice boat though and A significant bit out of my league though....
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Got the txt…keen for this arvo…promised me a dive!
So got picked up as the rain eased off and the breeze dropped…the skipper was in fine form full of yarns and laughter!
Got on the water with an inch or two to spare on a dropping tide, got the skipper on board with dry boots. Idled our way down the estuary and then faced the bar …it looked untidy but workable , eased our way out into a niggly swell ..it will be better on our dive spot I promised…
Well the vis was but the swell remained ,dropped on a favourite rock, onto some shorts round and round ,hang on ,look ,hang on again, found one old favourite produces again, he saw me and was in a crack and made a run for his cave ….got him before he got there. Into the sack .
Scratched around , back into the boat , down on a cave we’ve caught in before, skipper dropped me straight on it ..cheers VC got down, snuck in like the sneaky bloke I am and……the cupboard was empty.
Scratched around holes cracks ,Moki , takeable cod everything but a couple of crays.
Back into the boat ,tide and time was against us bang another rock and back in the dark or get in with the last of the tide in day light in a still messy sea….home James .
Got to the bar eased our way in ..cracked a beer enjoyed a cruise up the channel, loaded the boat and away home, shared a yarn. Hit the showers grabbed a feed lying in bed.
Need to do a shit ton more diving, loved every second of it today ..cheers VC another amazing evening of experience and laughter.
Conditions were pretty average but the best we were gonna get on an evening in the next few days at least.
Anyway mission accomplished good times with good people cheers Joe we make a good team.
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That there bright bit in the sky is called a suck hole....it's not the scientific name just the actual name.
Caught some Cod tonight.
@veitnamcam, this is one of the best threads on the forum, always an interesting read:cool:
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Cos why not :thumbsup:
Three more this arvo, this time caught in a net
Yip, we had a productive day. Limit on snapper in about 45mins with everything between 40-50ish cm. No whoppers, just great eating and easy to fillet fish. My favourite.
The hardest part was winding fast enough to get past the 3 bloody great sharks circling below the boat. They were all over 2.5mtrs and HUNGRY! Pretty sure one was a white but I'm no shark expert.
Then had a play with Jigs on 21 until we got tired. Heaps of king's about. Mostly rats around 60cm with the odd keeper.
Back at the ramp at 1.30pm for clean up.
Not bad considering we only decided to go on the day about 30mins before we left Hamilton.
Pretty lucky to have access to this sort of fishing on our almost doorstep.
Very slow start this morning.
Big lazy swell.
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Yesterday we went and fed the Rays.
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There's a couple of very big units.
Happy birthday lads [emoji6][emoji106]
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Tonight's results.
Anchored up and pump the berly.
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It's a great part of the world.:cool:
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Let this one go.would have gone close to 20 pounds.
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Been trying our hand at jigging.
Our technique is pretty ugly but we got results.
Broke my rod on a big kingfish. Broke at the butt.
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Got a few good snapper on jack Mac livies intended for kingis.
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It's a great part of the world for sure. Hopefully back up before too long.
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Now I’m not one to gossip , but got a PM from a veteran fisherman, with the above photos …I comment they look like good keepers , then says …errr I may have being measuring them wrong and throwing back keepers…but it’s only gossip. My lips are sealed …:innocent::smash:
What a day! Lisa and I up early and on the road for Kaikoura.
Everything went well but the weather, arrived at the camp sat down had a hot drink, chewed the fat , then waited for the rain to clear, that happened, filled the boat with gear …check the steering I said, after the young folk turned up at okiwi with it all seized up!
All good dropped the boat in the tide, motor off the trailer , head for the wharf …everything goes loose …steering cable has snapped ..I kid you not ..the crew tell me I’ve jinxed them. Back on the trailer me turning the motor the skipper on the controls.
Back to camp, change boats as the weather holds ..back into the water the crew reckon they’ve had their back luck that runs in threes…pulled first pot 2 keepers, pulled next pot another handful , smiles getting wider and wider..
Dumped the diver over the side on a solid rock hit the bottom, nothing no cracks no crays ..oh dear the curse of stingray kicks again…climbed the rock face first overhang has a dozen shorts hanging tight …look up and what a wonderful sight a couple of keepers hanging like apples on a tree.
Round the rock into a crack of dreams crays in numbers I’ve never ever seen in 30 years of diving, now comes the crazy thing reach for the big one and all the shorts scream back into the hole …now you cannot see the big one just a wall of feelers seriously you can’t reach any horns as the are stacked on top of each other like a hedgehog underwater …it was simply incredible, so rose out of the cave and here are keepers sunbathing on top of the cave in the weed!
About now I’m smiling so hard my mask is flooding, cleared my mask and harvested a few more to fill my quota , surfaced beside the boat and handed in my catch sack. Blokes were pretty excited by now , as we had all being here over the years and three crays was a epic day / weekend and here we were with one more pot to pull and more crays that we had ever caught on all our trips combined.
Last pot in close right into cray pot alley, seriously there would have being 30 pots around us as we pulled our last one …5 more in the shark catcher 2 keepers and the rest back over the side.
Broke open a beer each, saluted the fishing gods and each other…what a bloody fantastic couple of hours.
Photos to follow. It’s late and the beer was cold!
Huge thanks to @veitnamcam and @Munsey and my lady Lisa …let’s see what tomorrow brings
Well some very seasoned fisher and diver may have been measureing incorrectly today as well.....after publicly giving a novice first timer shit about measuring wrong.
This is all hearsay of course ay.....you know who you are.
For the record both anonymous people were measuring on the side of caution.....zero under size were taken but quite a few takers were released.
Got the first fish of the year in today, water temps are way up and the snapper were all but jumping into the boat. All really similar sized pannies with a few carrots for variety .
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Fish on the bite off Tauranga spots today but we caught nothing of substance.
Real hot.
Got a call from VC as I was driving home from work last night.
A quick conversation had me bypassing the Supermarket and shootimg home for a wet suit and then a quick scarper to catch up with VC and his boy, and Stingray.
We boated out onto the estuary and proceeded to drag the channels to clear them of seaweed.
First drag netted a lone fishy victim.
Several drags and repositions later we had removed a decent volume of weed from the sea and had a few more tasty specimens in the chilly bin.
An good evening out watching an impressive amount of mullet (we think) jumping and a fantastic sunset before heading back to the ramp.
More plans afoot.
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Was a beautiful evening alrighty.
@veitnamcam Yep moments like those truly let you forget about all the mundane things in life
" The Gods do not charge time spent fishing, against a man’s allotted life span."
The other import had been on at me for a while about taking him out for a dive....weather and tides looked good so off we went this morning at a leasurly 0800.
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Dropped a longline in 15m then headed out.
Out the front for a swim in hopefully good vis as the tide started coming in.
Vis was good I ankored in 7m and was able to swim down and check it before buggering off to look for a fish.
I was pretty pleased with that as a unfit novice freediver.
Managed to shoot my first just barely legal butterfish.
Float line and my flippers were a pain in the proverbial....really need some new full foot pocket ones.
Got it sorted eventually and reloaded.
Shot a just legal blue cod....two from two pretty happy with that but the spot was a bit devoid of fish so we moved on to another spot.
Spot two was good vis now as the tide had had a couple of hours coming in. Ankored in 7m.
Gave my gun to the import to have a go and swam down to check ankor.....good looking spot for a Cray I thought.
Did a few more dives looking under ledges and overhangs but didn't see anything.
While I could get down there I had all of about 5seconds bottom time before I had to come back up so I headed in shallower.
Overhangs and weedy gutters and lots of small kina.
Swimming into a weedy overhang I found 3 decent sized kina and placed them on top of a big rock to collect later.
Down the side of the rock was a weed filled gutter about a meter deep by 400 wide and peering in the end of it occasionally I would see a glimpse of a bloody big butter.
Yelled out for the gun but the import was 200m away sitting on a rock trying to reload it so it took a while for him to get to me.
While I waited I did a few dives and just waited on the bottom looking into this gutter....it was nice and shallow at maybe 3-4m but I was weighted a little light so I couldn't stay perfectly still but non the less out came the massive butter....sat side on at maybe 2m range and I had no gun then it went back in the gut.
Finally get the gun, dive down rooky mistake too close and spook it.....can't find it again FFS.
Good few hours in the water and I'm starting to get cramp so give the gun back to the import and swim back to the boat.
Get changed and catch a couple of decent blues on the rod then hear a Hollar from the Shallows and the import has shot his first fish:thumbsup: a red moky.
Pull longline for two massive gurnard and one small returned.
Change spots and fish the slack till the top of the tide(to get on trailer without getting ute wet) and manage 4 nice pannie snaps not big but good eating and a big pod of dolphins did two drive buys on us:cool:
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Every days a school day as they say and we both learnt a lot today.
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Awesome day out but the sun was punishing!!
Oh and the kina were shit.
I thought they all were shit cos every one I have had had been until recently I ate some kiakoura ones and they were fat and sweet....really nice.
Nelson ones are skinny and bitter.
Trying a new shore based spot…nothing doing but will be back as need to try a change of tactics…
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When the flax is in flower,the kina are sour
Fishn at 1 pm, charter trip:D
Went out on the May Marie, really recommend this company, capt Dan was a lot of fun. Came home with half a doz snapper and a nice size JD. All filleted and now on way to be cooked. $135 per person kids free under 10. 5 hours on the briny. AwesomeAttachment 187685
Would recommend these guys,
Being slack with fishing reports and photos …out this evening with VC clean warm water great vis …boil ups in front of at anchor ..jumped in crays holding in normal spots …shorts are back and shedding saw 15-20 crays managed 1, rest were well back couple missing feelers and others size crays holding tight in uncatchable spots.
Huge shoal of Kahawai buzzed us no kingis in tow . Big local Blue Moki has survived Xmas ..small red Moki are in their crack . Great to see VC getting wet and on the hunt! Pretty average with the swell but good vis and warm water makes the difference.
Thanks again to VC for getting my arse off the couch and out into the blue …hugely appreciated…
Cheers let's do it again soon!
Flounder hunt
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Got invited to do a Durville trip ...got a handful of kings kept one ..photos of sitting out off Stephen's Island waiting Groper ..Stephen Lighthouse
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Portland boat show … Stabi,s getting a lot of attention… bloody happy to see that!!
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