Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

You lost me at porridge
But a nice mornea (can't spell poncy words) with all the meat from the body is the way I generally go

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.

Big day out today , prospecting new turf, saw crays from 3 inch long to a solid 6+lb buck, snagged a feed ,missed a few and learnt a few more life lessons!

VC found that hunting your feet first produces, we failed to bag that cray, swam some more turf tits up a couple good keepers then my mojo kicked in and I bagged a pair !

Changed spots again vis still average but more crays , banged a few , nothing huge VC bombing rocks saw a massive cod but as life is they’re there then there’re gone,
Blew out , ran out of gas and warmth , up into the boat out! Wet suit tops off and a beer, running out of tide we made the call to headed in , up into the estuary watched other folks retrieving their boats , set up the cooker to find we were almost out of make things hot juice.

So onto shore we wandered set up a wee driftwood fire and finished off the snags , then just because @ROKTOY turned up we had a couple of digs for a feed of flats, the first was quite average then the second was quite bloody fantastic.

That was about me did one more quick dig a couple of shorts and a 2 inch log gurnard ..

Yarn could / should be a lot better …absolutely rooted ..VC has a few photos he can post …over n out Zzzzz

Very happy no doubt

Posted above mate.
But tea was excellent ��

The lad and I turned up on the sand mid afternoon to see these 3 guys had had a successful outing in the water for the day. We had a quick consultation over a regulation beverage and set to with the net. A couple of drags before the flood set in and we had a few fish in the bin. We pulled the pin before the water started to fill the channels and retired to Stingrays place for a yarn and a bit of shade.
Thanks guys, another good afternoon with some good company.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

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My kind of cook May I suggest cast iron pot for wild cooking, yeah it`s heave,but most modern cookware can `t stand for open fire.

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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.

Rules vari by region but here It is a maximum of 6crays per person diving per day with a maximum accumulation of 2 days.
They can be caught with or without bottles. However if there are bottles on the boat you may not harvest any Paua or Kina. They must only be harvested on breath hold.

Anyone else out having a crack?

We got some nice fish coming on board







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That’s a couple of fantastic fish!

Did yesterday in the dark southhad the youngest out on his 1st outting on the boat and 1st fishing expedition with dad and grandad

@Padox Good Stuff !!

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 !!



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.



It was raw travelly with soy and wasabi for lunch and now it is time for one of these



Cheers !!

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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