Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Divers pulled out tomorrow so might do some yard work.

Took a workmate out today, gentlemens hours....shit tides....no current.
Limit of cod, couple feeds of gurnard...pruned a few goats and collected a bit of dog tucker.

Tried hard but no hook ups....primo day tho.



Did see them so they are there
How was the drag netting VC you make it out?

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Buddy coming back from a few days offshore recently...

Bigeye??

Cold SE wind meant tucking in close to the coast today, out fishing with a neighbour in his boat. Three gurnard, 2 that went 44cm, 2 spikey dog and one southern sail fish.

Beautiful part of the coast, crystal clear water and a good few, if cold, hours on the water. Perfect Saturday finish with a cold beer orctwo back on the beach.

Cheers FBD



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Went up the Raglan Harbour last weekend Floundering …. Found a good bed of what I assume are dredge oysters … any reasons not to eat em ??

Originally Posted by 2Quack

Went up the Raglan Harbour last weekend Floundering …. Found a good bed of what I assume are dredge oysters … any reasons not to eat em ??

someones looking...is the only one that MIGHT stop me...and then only if I was in a good mood.
my Aunty was a lovely Nga puhi lady...she was sitting on beach having a feed of oysters and fisheries officer asked her what she was doing.... well he got told...probably very politely knowing Aunty...she was having a feed of oysters....and would move on when had done so....he knew when was beaten and walked away.

So this happened yesterday
First time chasing bluefin, we lost one (pulled hook) after 1.5 hrs fight.
Then managed to hook this one at 2:30pm, ended up fighting him for 5 hours into the night.
Estimate at 150kg over 2m long.
So stoked!!

Originally Posted by burtonator

So this happened yesterday
First time chasing bluefin, we lost one (pulled hook) after 1.5 hrs fight.
Then managed to hook this one at 2:30pm, ended up fighting him for 5 hours into the night.
Estimate at 150kg over 2m long.
So stoked!!
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Hell yeah. That's awesome man

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Probably saw you out here Burt, loopy boats swarming us when we haul.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Probably saw you out here Burt, loopy boats swarming us when we haul.

Yea I’d say so! There were a few of us out there!!

Just interested to see if anyone else has been catching snapper with very white flesh.
What I have found is that up to 50% Snapper taken off the sand out of Whananaki (Northland) have white flesh, which is a sign of malnutrition according to MPI.
This is the first year I have seen this in big numbers and in the past 30 years of fishing in the area have only seen this in a single fish before.
Can now identify these fish when caught as they a a bit skinny and are slimy to touch.
There are a lot of bait fish about and there are more snapper than I have seen for a number of years.
From conversations with other anglers, it appears that reef fish, while still effected don't have the same frequency of the issue.
Just interested to see if the issue is wide spread.
Cheers

that sounds like a post spawning trout...referred to as "slabs" because they are slabsided and not good eating at all. given a bit of time to feed up the yput the condition back on again.

Caught a few the other week 2 had the white flesh.fish so.skinny.heading out 2mrw I think.ill.throw anything back poorly conditioned