Sorry, you may got me wrong, there was no poncy words or meanings of any kind. lobster rice porridge soup is most popular in Hong Kong, I had several times and felt that was good, especially for hangovers.
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Yip that’s sums up life right now ..simple but delicious. Great company, even better that the VCs young bloke went from floating to actually hitting the bottom and hunting / seeing fish …we had a trio of very keepable to large boff head blues hunting crays with me, they were that ballsy that when I had a cray in hand and was putting in in the sack the blue cod was trying to get a leg off it!
Got to the boat and told my story only to hear that both VC and his lad had seen the same fish , young VC showed a great deal of enthusiasm…so with a few more dives and the summers blue water adding up to a bit more experience, I’m pretty sure that we will find that we’ve ruined another fine gentleman …he will waste his wages and weekends on dive gear and fuel $$$.
That said I’d hate to be feeding the lump right now, the tucker box didn’t stand a chance! He got out of the water inhaled a couple of well filled bread rolls , eyed up my second that disappeared, then when VC said “ yeah Son , you can have the last one …gulp and gone …I’m pretty damn sure the crays in the chilly bin were getting nervous as well.
Add Roktoys young Aaron to a dive day and we will be towing a tender full of tucker to keep the wolves from the door.
Anyone else out having a crack?
We got some nice fish coming on board [emoji106]
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That’s a couple of fantastic fish!
Did yesterday in the dark southAttachment 210147had the youngest out on his 1st outting on the boat and 1st fishing expedition with dad and grandad
@Padox Good Stuff !! [emoji106]
Well it turned out to be an outstanding morning on the water. Ended up releasing 12 snapper which was more than we kept.
There was no chance that I was going to be allowed to let this one go tho !!
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There were several times when we had more than one fish on at the same time. A few gurnard, kahawai and even a couple of travelly made for a good mixed bin.
Back on the trailer just after 9am, gotta love that. But the fishing was easy part. I have just finished the clean up/filleting/vacume packing and smoking the frames etc.
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It was raw travelly with soy and wasabi for lunch and now it is time for one of these [emoji41]
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Cheers !! [emoji106]
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Hey @Padox what's the story with that trace set up your lad is using. Looks interesting !! Whats that black stuff on the backbone of it for.....barracuda protection?
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Yea just to stop the cod rolling ur trace up does stop kuda and sharks 2 tho
Life lessons, another trip to the flounder flats this evening …bit a pieces of crew…some unfortunately are at sea , others looked at the weather and bailed out ..
then there are the souls that just keep turning up keen as every bloody time…thanks guys!
So we arrived as we do , with myself doing the intel on the tides , picking to get to fish the very last of the ebb tide as stingray season is here. Well that worked perfectly except that once again , the ebb tide ran out but the water remained once again on a very low tide ..so perhaps things have changed down stream?
Anyway we set to fishing ..testing the waters down stream of our normal hot spot due to the wide channels and the fact that I’ve being told to much fresh water puts the fish off , then I got told that flounder like the fresh/ tepid water because it kills the lice that live in their gills etc ..
Well any way we dragged the wides and felt a few hits so thought that we were doing ok. ..beached the net to find 8 outstanding fish snagged in the trawl …well that did the light a fire under our arses …a quick clean out back into the a bit of a wander saw us land another handful of average keepers and a few shorts and a heap of sticks and cockles etc …
So with that we sent Roktoy and his net up stream to a nice clean looking bend in the channel , Roktoy and my neighbour fished the first bit of the flood but pulled out early!
With a net pretty free of weed and crap myself and the import set out again , and with a flooding tide pushing hard we felt the odd hit …surprisingly we had a short angry man hurling abuse at us about it being his net , his spot , that we were drinking his beer etc …all the while his son and two dogs dug a feed of cockles ..
Well we hauled the drag as the flood spilled over the estuary to find a bounty of wonderfully conditioned fish, a good number of delicious flats were binned and cleaned ..everyone doing their bit from gutting to tiding up the net ..then with dry ground becoming a rarity we waded our way back to the trucks.
The rain set in as we changed into dry cloths , the catch was shared out to those that had family and friends that would appreciate a fresh flounder and away home to a hot shower.
A great evening in the tide, despite the constant harassment.
That's a good net huh, shame about the owner? LOL
Good company and a good haul of seafood. I'm glad we keep going back.
With last weekend a wash out and most of the week too windy, we were keen as this morning.
Boys were up early and out the door. Big low tide so only the little boats out the channel early today. Very shallow, greatfull for the auxiliary [emoji106]
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Rods were constantly going with most fish of the 'panny' variety. Many were were hooked nicely in the corner of the mouth so easily released !!
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Then a big bend and some head shakes....it turned out to be a 74cm kingi so back over the side it went. Very exciting none the less [emoji41]
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Back on the trailer at 9.30 with a very respectable bin of fish and some happy lads. Another good morning on the salt.
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Forecast for early tomorrow looking good so get amongst it you local fellas[emoji106]
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You might see the other Brent H out there tomorrow too.
Don’t forget your burley and squid bait ! :thumbsup:
Pink has always been a good color [emoji6]
Nice fish, and photos @Pengy
Good to see !!
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Look at those photos closely …they look like baited lures …not saying that there is anything wrong with that …but I’m still backing burley and bait in Tasman bay!
Got a nice 15pound snap out in rangi channel on Saturday morning .biggest fish I've caught the in like 20 plus years .was awesome . Biggest for the new stabi aswell atm
A few keen souls ventured out into the mud this evening after work.
There was rather a decent and fresh breeze in the estuary tonight. Bins were blown away, chilly bins lids went AWOL, hats and caps were retrieved.
A couple of quick drags saw a reasonable number of victims on the sand. A Stingray made itself known on the second drag, quickly and relatively easily released without the loss of any tasty morsels.
The turn of the tide and we made haste to get the net back into the incoming tide, a few hits and a few flounder jumping over the net in the shallows. A decent soak and we dragged the net back onto dry land, Stingray number two in tow. a quick untangle and the last couple of flatties retrieved from the net.
The wind chill had started to take its toll on a team member so a quick yarn before car heaters were cranked to hot and we trundled off hone.
Tea tonight was very simple, very tasty but. :thumbsup:
My only complaint, that was duly ignored, was that after 8-10 months of drag netting, I now have a hole in my net.
Good times.
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Thanks @ROKTOY another successful outing, the stingray season has arrived with old stinker turning up in the drag twice, but s/he was particularly relaxed about the whole evenings events, we didn’t even manage to loose the two large flats keeping him/her at the bottom of the trawl.
Yes we holed Roktoys net . But as @veitnancam says the more holes in the net , the better it catch’s …going by that the bugger will be unstoppable now!
A wonderful evening of yarns and laughter and some delicious flats! What a wonderful life we live!
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Tough life this we dog has
In my humble opinion, if you really want to catch fish, baited lures are the way to go. Best of both worlds. You'll pick up fish that want to feed and those whose predatory instincts are triggered, plus those that are curious or pissed off with the "alien" visiting their home.
Maybe not tomorrow...but fishing NZ by Friday!!
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Monday morning is looking good for us Joe :thumbsup:
Always.
Spend 22 hours traveling to NZ, sleep a bit, buy fishing license, get some poor sucker to take me fishing Monday morning, travel the land warning the good people of NZ that we (me and 3 cute ladies) will be moving there in 2023, cast in to any legal water I deem fit for a fish, visit with folks we see/meet, visit with the NZ hunting/shooting people I've been talking to for almost a year...other than that, no real plans :)
PS: It's all your fault that we're still planning on moving there...in the past year I've spoken to or emailed or zoom called with 20 people from NZ and they have been the 20 nicest, most positive, most accommodating, open folks I've ever met in my life.
Well if you are around the top of the south, feel free to get in touch and maybe meet up for a beer/fish/hunt or whatever.
Same for the north (Whangarei).
Lovely evening, top of the west coast, south island.
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A few XOS kahawai out there too [emoji106]
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Great few days away with @stingray and the mini me.
Focus more on the diving/swimming than fishing this time.
The young fella shot his first fish and I pronged a couple too and found some crayfish.
Fortunately Joe can catch them.
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Another year rolled over! VC had his B / day so I joined him to celebrate it!
We all took the long way round to okiwi , with local over the hill road closed for repairs! We all settled in , and set the alarm for get up early o’clock !
Well the Alarm rang …..and we emerged to clag / rain but zero wind!
Being our first day off VC and myself treated our selves to an extra cup of coffee / tea ..then an other just for good measure! Then shook the lump out of his fart sack, chucked some tucker in his hand and then slid the critter into his wetsuit and set sail.
We were on the hunt for 5 week cray! A large local cray VC and mini me had found 5 weeks ago along with a few smaller ones ,
then they had an dive in the same area whilst I was driving down ..only to find 5 week ( now it’s code name) cray was still in residence and had recruited a few extra mates. So I was recruited to move 5 weeks from his cave to a spa. We banged its turf scared the shit out of his mates and simply I tits the capture up!
To much study not enough smash n grab! VC was a bit more ruthless and harpooned a couple of butters.
So off down the coast to sheltered waters, tanked up dropped in snagged a couple whilst the gang hunted the weed beds. Back in the boat smoko round the corner whilst we did a cod bash …well me and mini VC sorted tea whilst someone else found out the 5 for $20 flasher rigs may have the average suspect knot or two.
Home in the rain , tea and beers and a clean up , fallow cutlets, baked mushrooms with blue cheese , marinated mussels and a slow cooked hogget roast, then cards ,cheating ,laughter ,bullshit and a excellent late night.
Up the next day more rain and so a indoor day filling tanks eating and recovering. Went over to the wharf feed the rays , the locals turned up and were amazing as normal , then an absolute surprise as a ray drifted past the wharf with a gang of yellow eyed mullet hanging about its wings a bloody JD burst out from a wharf pile and tried to inhale a mullet! A first for us at okiwi …was pretty wicked!
A very early night , saw a early start …down to the pass to hunt kings ..sloppy run down got to the pass …good current and great drifts but nothing on the sounder and even less on the hooks, we tried the banks on the reef side of the pass nothing there ether ,So chucked it in at that in as other boats suffered along with us.
Up the coast to a cray rock , VC once again positioned me on the hot spot down and up with two easy crays, unverified to a bit of reef looking for a long lost crack , no luck round and round…feelers , cave , crays …perfect …tits the first keeper , snagged the second , that murked the hole , turned around ohhh yeesss another crack holding a handful , so snaked two …checked my air and pulled the pin…to find VC right on top of me marking the new spot …you beauty…”team work makes the dream work”!
Smoko of pan fried full meat snags , then the day ran away as we chased a feed of cod and the rain set in again , so we headed for home to clean up and haul our arses back round the long way home.
A huge thanks to VC and mini for the laughs and yarns and food and as always keeping tabs on me when I’m on the bottom cheers!
Put the acid of VC he has a few more photos ..
Well you can't beat that for a few days away. Far better than mowing the lawns.