Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Out again today with the daughter and a renta kid.
I am the best eel fisherman I know.


Sorted that out and went to go to yesterday's spot but another boat had just pulled in there.
Fishing was a bit slower than yesterday and with two kids to look after I didn't get much fishing in.
That said we come in with a few feeds worth.

VC left me two.sitting at home said to the wife,wind hasn't got up feel like fishing.out hour before high back hour after.
3 Chinaman an a spike barsted.
Nuggets for dinner

What's the setup for Gurnard that you guys are using?

I've caught a couple, but wasn't targeting them and now I think I'd like to....

Originally Posted by Beaker

What's the setup for Gurnard that you guys are using?

I've caught a couple, but wasn't targeting them and now I think I'd like to....

Bait is the key mate, not so much the rig. Can get them on flashers or stray lines.

They don't like squid.

Go for trevelly, mac, cut pilcher etc

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Originally Posted by madjon_

VC left me two.sitting at home said to the wife,wind hasn't got up feel like fishing.out hour before high back hour after.
3 Chinaman an a spike barsted.
Nuggets for dinner

and you didnt even wave back on the way out of Cable bay

Pm VC the man , knows who to dig up carrots

Originally Posted by Pengy

and you didnt even wave back on the way out of Cable bay

Was looking where some dick hit the fence,you was past when I realized.

Originally Posted by madjon_

Was looking where some dick hit the fence,you was past when I realized.

I saw that....figured it must have been icy?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I saw that....figured it must have been icy?

Fair bit of rubber on the seal,so,"excessive speed may have been a contributing factor"

Originally Posted by madjon_

Fair bit of rubber on the seal,so,"excessive speed may have been a contributing factor"

Have had a lot of wankers doing burnouts lately

Originally Posted by Pengy

Have had a lot of wankers doing burnouts lately

Handful of fencing staples bro

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Originally Posted by Beaker

What's the setup for Gurnard that you guys are using?

I've caught a couple, but wasn't targeting them and now I think I'd like to....

Originally Posted by kukuwai

Bait is the key mate, not so much the rig. Can get them on flashers or stray lines.

They don't like squid.

Go for trevelly, mac, cut pilcher etc

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Yep as Kukuwai said,oily baits like salted blue mackerel (my favourite ) pilchards cut small, salted trevally,salted mullet etc.
Absolute suckers for burly (pilchard or salmon rather than kina).
They feed mainly on the bottom on crabs and marine worms but will come up to the top hook of a generic black majic or bursco flasher rig.
They will also reddilly take small jigs like sliders,very small bottomships etc either worked along the bottom on the drift or in the rod holder at ankor in the burly trail.

Locally I look for banks and the boundry between sand/mud or sand/rock or just that change in bottom type.
I look for these spots as that is were I hopefully avoid the plagues of undersized blue cod that you get all along our inner tasman and golden bays if you fish near a rocky shoreline and am hopefully shallow enough to avoid the plauges of spikey dogs that are in all the deeper water of the inner bay.
Mostly it works in winter here they are shallow, a couple of my best days on gurnard were only in 3m but normally im between 5 and 15m to try and avoid the sharks and cod.
Burly a meter or so off the bottom or a bit more if little current. If no current do something else till there is some or move to where there is some.

Nothing wrong with a few burnouts you old grumpy pricks

Nice fish guys. We got a goid feed or terakihi and snapper on Sunday. Havnt had a king for a month or so

Originally Posted by Gibo

Nothing wrong with a few burnouts you old grumpy pricks

Nothing wrong with being an old prick and grumpy you young whipper snapper. I will be hard out training for the grumpalympics when I get old enough.

Classic Northland winter fishing. Bite is hot! Caught bag limit in under an hour. Nothing big, but good eaters.