Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Give it a go mate!

So with work being slow, and the wind being light ..I did a bit of a bludge and took a few days off “ for painting and chores etc” ..But I made the fatal error of telling VC that I had a day or two off, well after VC had done his chores he turned up at my place with the boat hooked up!

What’s a man to do, gear in the boat , boat into the tide , me into the gear and into the tide!

What’s a yarn without excitement, well we had being looking at this patch of turf for a while and the weather gods pretty much made us dive it with choppy and unpleasant conditions, making it hard for the boatman to monitor the diver it was the best choice ….down a large rock straight into the sand , not a great start , but the fish life was abundant, and a couple of large red Moki drifted past so I quietly followed them and they lead me to holes and cracks and the cave, nothing nothing nothing , then as I rolled over the side of a rock, feelers , and legs …you beauty…well no it was tucked up in a safe from me spot ..next hole empty along with one more then finally a catchable cray , which I rushed and completely fucked up!

We’re there is one there are normally others and I found the village idiot out on its own in a crack with no escape , bloody wonderful we’re on the board, sacked another couple , back to the boat to find the wind had dropped away and it was a truely stunning day.

Had a yarn and a beer with VC as we enjoy a spectacular Autumn’s day

Another spot marked for the future. VC your a bloody great mate and excellent skipper, thanks for the time you put in getting us on the crays!
Bloody epic mate! Cheers

Originally Posted by stingray

Give it a go mate!

So with work being slow, and the wind being light ..I did a bit of a bludge and took a few days off “ for painting and chores etc” ..But I made the fatal error of telling VC that I had a day or two off, well after VC had done his chores he turned up at my place with the boat hooked up!

What’s a man to do, gear in the boat , boat into the tide , me into the gear and into the tide!

What’s a yarn without excitement, well we had being looking at this patch of turf for a while and the weather gods pretty much made us dive it with choppy and unpleasant conditions, making it hard for the boatman to monitor the diver it was the best choice ….down a large rock straight into the sand , not a great start , but the fish life was abundant, and a couple of large red Moki drifted past so I quietly followed them and they lead me to holes and cracks and the cave, nothing nothing nothing , then as I rolled over the side of a rock, feelers , and legs …you beauty…well no it was tucked up in a safe from me spot ..next hole empty along with one more then finally a catchable cray , which I rushed and completely fucked up!

We’re there is one there are normally others and I found the village idiot out on its own in a crack with no escape , bloody wonderful we’re on the board, sacked another couple , back to the boat to find the wind had dropped away and it was a truely stunning day.

Had a yarn and a beer with VC as we enjoy a spectacular Autumn’s day

Another spot marked for the future. VC your a bloody great mate and excellent skipper, thanks for the time you put in getting us on the crays!
Bloody epic mate! Cheers
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Great story, been working flat out on the reno's this week as have a few things want to do next week, like go to the range, go to the deerstalkers meeting etc

Heading south to Pelorus tomorrow- old boys weekend with two mates we worked together as graduates at good old Valuation NZ Wellington a government department- JHC we had some fun way back then 1986/7.
Weekends adenda:
Fishing
Talking grumpy old guy shite
Beer
More shite talk
Hunting deer goats
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Chardonnay (thats me i am an addict)
Sooo good to get away from the work stuff!!

Originally Posted by AMac

Heading south to Pelorus tomorrow- old boys weekend with two mates we worked together as graduates at good old Valuation NZ Wellington a government department- JHC we had some fun way back then 1986/7.
Weekends adenda:
Fishing
Talking grumpy old guy shite
Beer
More shite talk
Hunting deer goats
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Chardonnay (thats me i am an addict)
Sooo good to get away from the work stuff!!

There will be a sleep or substantial break in the beersies before any hunting no doubt.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

There will be a sleep or substantial break in the beersies before any hunting no doubt.

Yes absolutely- i now see how that post did not read very well.
80k northerly yesterday 60k fcast today looks like Saturday might be best for a fish or early Sunday

My and many others pleasure @stingray

Just for fun. While my interest in fishing has temporarily waned in small way, thought I'd just enjoy a day out on the water, taking in the sights and eating fresh fish.

Bit of fun, last couple of days







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I'm on a ski.

Originally Posted by Shearer

I'm on a ski.
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Wow thats hard core will keep an eye out for a low flying missile !

Had a wee fish in the bay as there were scattered small work ups all over the place lots and lots of sign on the bottom we got 2 small snapper kahawai and a gurnard. Dropped the guys at the jetty and was tootling out to put the boat on the mooring and spied a big workup on the otherside of the bay so hammer down over I go.
7” zman on a 1.5oz jig head to get down to bottom fast through the Kahwahi second cast took off stripping line like nobody’s business. Thinking bloody shark so cranked up the drag zzzzzzzz still it went anywayplayed to the top holy smoke a monster snap 82cm. Filled the fish bin with water popped it in raced back to jetty for a few photos and i got it back in water and it swam away.

@AMac. Got this under a workup on the way home

Originally Posted by Shearer

@AMac. Got this under a workup on the way home
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Nice and calm....blowing it's tit's off here

Originally Posted by Shearer

@AMac. Got this under a workup on the way home
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Nice one Shearer beautiful eating a favourite of mine.

Hey thanks for calling in nice to meet you. Come for a beer next time !

We couldn’t get to my snapper spot too windy from SW.
But we did ok on the cod and carrots.

Good to see some fish being caught in the sounds for once.
If @Sarvo was still here he would be glad to see I am sure.