Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Walker

Was at a Matariki event with partner and chatting about firearms law to a guy I know and the local green party 'person' butted in and commented that once they had the guns they were going to push for all boat registration and fishing licenses same as the trout system.

Was nice to take my daughter fishing when she was younger.

Sounds about par for the course with our government. Axe the policy that would provide serious benefits to the fishery (on board cameras) and focus on the soft target, Joe average out feeding his family.

Although tbh after some of the close calls I've had in/on the water some sort of boating license wouldn't be a terrible thing. I swear like 50% of boaties don't have a fucking clue about how to safely and effectively operate a watercraft

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Originally Posted by Nick-D

Sounds about par for the course with our government. Axe the policy that would provide serious benefits to the fishery (on board cameras) and focus on the soft target, Joe average out feeding his family.

Although tbh after some of the close calls I've had in/on the water some sort of boating license wouldn't be a terrible thing. I swear like 50% of boaties don't have a fucking clue about how to safely and effectively operate a watercraft

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Here its like 80% over the months of December and January.

Boys rock fishing trip this weekend coming, and today the weather was great, so the boss said we'd better go get some bait for the weekend...



Huge schools of kawaii everywhere.
Didnt have much luck on the snaps though, but didnt really try to hard.

Originally Posted by Beaker

(And admit it, I bet you had fun to! )

I did, and it's embarrassing getting more excited than a 4 year old when a bite finally happens!

Tough day at Kaikoura today , frosty road conditions saw a jack knifed semi on the Kaikoura highway , all the turf north way mud brown / milky ..heading south after the hold up ..didn't see much improvement..out of South Bay in VC's dive boat got out and up th coast vis was shit and any decent cracks I managed to bomb into were empty! Saw more Kina than I have ever before.

Will leave this coast for the spring and the return of the blue water ...was a test run for the dive boat which worked out very well so not a complete loss , and always a day away getting wet , wetting lines and traveling has a magic happiness of it own!

Originally Posted by stingray

Tough day at Kaikoura today , frosty road conditions saw a jack knifed semi on the Kaikoura highway , all the turf north way mud brown / milky ..heading south after the hold up ..didn't see much improvement..out of South Bay in VC's dive boat got out and up th coast vis was shit and any decent cracks I managed to bomb into were empty! Saw more Kina than I have ever before.

Will leave this coast for the spring and the return of the blue water ...was a test run for the dive boat which worked out very well so not a complete loss , and always a day away getting wet , wetting lines and traveling has a magic happiness of it own!

Is this a new dive boat?

Originally Posted by stingray

Tough day at Kaikoura today , frosty road conditions saw a jack knifed semi on the Kaikoura highway , all the turf north way mud brown / milky ..heading south after the hold up ..didn't see much improvement..out of South Bay in VC's dive boat got out and up th coast vis was shit and any decent cracks I managed to bomb into were empty! Saw more Kina than I have ever before.

Will leave this coast for the spring and the return of the blue water ...was a test run for the dive boat which worked out very well so not a complete loss , and always a day away getting wet , wetting lines and traveling has a magic happiness of it own!

Yea always good to get away shame about the viz.
One of these days I will get to fire my speargun

Originally Posted by Wildman

Is this a new dive boat?

Na we took Tinny Punt with the idea being we could carry it down a beach and dive less dived turf.
Still needs more horsepower but it did the job.

Heaps of gurnard out in the bay of delaware. My mate has been picking up 10-18 good ones with a few kahawai last few trips in short order.

13 fat flounder this morning mostly good size.
More river flounder than yellowbelly.

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Out with Dad and they boy this morning.
Dad was up to his old tricks of tangling up with anything and everything possible to tangle with Despite that the boy managed to land some good gurnard.

A long long we had set resulted in one gurnard 22 spiky dogs and 2 Chinamen

Tried what used to be a good winter terikihi spot but just got undersized cod.

Home with a few feeds of carrots just as the wind got up.

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Went up the island yesterday, tried my normal gunard spot, nothing but sharks.....hauled some of the best cod I've seen for ten + years and some good paua. Talked to some guys fishing in Port Hardy that caught some great snapper but all on those bottom ship things. We tried with bait but that didnt work....all in all a bloody good day out.

Originally Posted by screamO

Went up the island yesterday, tried my normal gunard spot, nothing but sharks.....hauled some of the best cod I've seen for ten + years and some good paua. Talked to some guys fishing in Port Hardy that caught some great snapper but all on those bottom ship things. We tried with bait but that didnt work....all in all a bloody good day out.

@stingray

Great day on the water. And Clay's off the back for a bit....
For a foreiner and gun virgin. He loved it. However, these under and over things aren't as nice to shoot as a versamax ( now illegal.....)......





Fishing was tough.....

Why is your versamax illegal?

Mine is all compliant. Removed the extension, replaced mag spring and now holds 4+1 3" shells.

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Originally Posted by R93

Why is your versamax illegal?

Mine is all compliant. Removed the extension, replaced mag spring and now holds 4+1 3" shells.

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Because I haven't done this yet.....

And being law abiding, I grabbed the the other shotgun. I am now speeding up fixing the versamax.


Now just to find fish......