Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

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



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 !!



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



Back on the trailer at 9.30 with a very respectable bin of fish and some happy lads. Another good morning on the salt.



Forecast for early tomorrow looking good so get amongst it you local fellas

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You might see the other Brent H out there tomorrow too.

Don’t forget your burley and squid bait !

Originally Posted by stingray

Don’t forget your burley and squid bait !

Hmm

Pink has always been a good color
Nice fish, and photos @Pengy
Good to see !!

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

Pink has always been a good color
Nice fish, and photos @Pengy
Good to see !!

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I wish I could say they were caught by my goodself, but alas, no.
I gifted the lure to a young fella as payment for tying me an FG knot

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!

Originally Posted by stingray

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!

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!!

Originally Posted by Joe Schmo

Maybe not tomorrow...but fishing NZ by Friday!!
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Very good. Have you got a plan yet?

Originally Posted by MB

Very good. Have you got a plan yet?

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.