Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Fat!!

Look at size of those bloody teeth!

Originally Posted by MB

Nice snap

I take it they are not scrounging a feed of shellfish/crabs/kina much up there with teeth like that?
Any decent snapper I have caught or seen in my region the teeth are all worn down to nubs.

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Originally Posted by Blisters

epic day out, waited till today so everyone would be back at work and I had the whole firth to myself. could have taken as much as i wanted just took home these beauts Attachment 119062Attachment 119063Attachment 119064

Nice work. How do you fish those jigs? Drifting, dropping and retrieving?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I take it they are not scrounging a feed of shellfish/crabs/kina much up there with teeth like that?
Any decent snapper I have caught or seen in my region the teeth are all worn down to nubs.

It's variable from fish to fish. I can't see any pattern based on geography or time of year. The fish in the photo was a predator, it followed the jig up from the sea bed at 50 metres and nailed it at 30 metres. I was watching it on the fishfinder!

I reckon its just a young fat fish. He will be into the shellfish no doubt, just hasnt been doing it long enough to damage the points

And the reason I say young is that the pecs are still quite short

Its shit out here!! See yas Sunday

Originally Posted by Gibo

Its shit out here!! See yas Sunday
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Looks shit

Originally Posted by Gibo

Its shit out here!! See yas Sunday
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Hook in to Whangamata and give the locals shit Gibo.

Took Dad out for a fish yesterday in my boat prospecting for a snapper,its still too early yet up this end of the bay but had to have a look.
Dropped a longline in 16m and 33m.
Cod fished in the same spot as last time with the boy.....same same the passenger side of the boat caught most of the fish and we must have cleaned out the big ones last time as we struggled to get 3 decent ones and moved off to check lines.
16m a couple of really good sized gurnard one cod eaten in half and 5 or 6 spiky dogs.
33m , one gurnard eaten, one sand shark,23 spiky dogs I know the snapper are there....maybe not in numbers yet but when the sharks are so numerous and hard on the feed there is no chance for a snapper to get your bait.
Gurnard fished but was really hard going.....no tide to take out burly and no wind at all to drift. Literally a 2 ounce sinker on the line ankored the boat.
We got a feed for the family each but was slow going.....totally forgot to take any pictures.


Today got the other boat out and put the net out.







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Well we went down as far as bottle point , bait schools on the sounder on the way down , dolphins and birds killing a shoal...couldn't get the old man to to stop for a Jig .....Farrrk ...down to brim , terakhei mark ..sounder was showing fish, rigged small hooks two terakhie then big fat blue cod ...way off the structure

headed over to bottle point , dropped on a bait school ...coutta , snakes and southern sail fish ..moved more bait more of the same..up the coast to a carrot patch huge spikies ..biggest went 5 ft long along with a handful of carrots ...

Wonderful weather wonderful company ....the fishing will come ...I hope my catching comes along with it ...managed shit fish all day...plus an empty tackle box as the snakes took great care of all of my shiny stuff!

Originally Posted by stingray

Well we went down as far as bottle point , bait schools on the sounder on the way down , dolphins and birds killing a shoal...couldn't get the old man to to stop for a Jig .....Farrrk ...down to brim , terakhei mark ..sounder was showing fish, rigged small hooks two terakhie then big fat blue cod ...way off the structure

headed over to bottle point , dropped on a bait school ...coutta , snakes and southern sail fish ..moved more bait more of the same..up the coast to a carrot patch huge spikies ..biggest went 5 ft long along with a handful of carrots ...

Wonderful weather wonderful company ....the fishing will come ...I hope my catching comes along with it ...managed shit fish all day...plus an empty tackle box as the snakes took great care of all of my shiny stuff!

Soon mate soon.....I am going to need a driver....

Originally Posted by stingray

Well we went down as far as bottle point , bait schools on the sounder on the way down , dolphins and birds killing a shoal...couldn't get the old man to to stop for a Jig .....Farrrk ...down to brim , terakhei mark ..sounder was showing fish, rigged small hooks two terakhie then big fat blue cod ...way off the structure

headed over to bottle point , dropped on a bait school ...coutta , snakes and southern sail fish ..moved more bait more of the same..up the coast to a carrot patch huge spikies ..biggest went 5 ft long along with a handful of carrots ...

Wonderful weather wonderful company ....the fishing will come ...I hope my catching comes along with it ...managed shit fish all day...plus an empty tackle box as the snakes took great care of all of my shiny stuff!

Don't believe I just read that

Hey @MB can’t see your pics could you please post them again cheers