Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Nice job on the land dog Stingray not so much on the water dog.
At least you came home with a feed

Had a day on the Firth yesterday. Beautiful conditions. Fished the mussel farms. Prospective around a bit before we found some fish. Used the Minnkota spot lock instead of tying up.
Fished with baited softbait jig heads.


All good 35 plus centimeter pannies.

What a selection of wee fatties tasty looking , snaps!

So they were baited “jig heads”

Just asking for a couple of friends @Shearer @joeschmo ..who knew bait rates better than soft baits

Correct. Little strips of kahawai on the end. A mate put me on to the idea.

A small note of no importance:

I've been watching some local Kayak fishermen you tubers, now that health prevents me from doing same.

One guy has a camera he sends down on a line to see what's going on.

Conclusions are:

There are crayfish on the sea floor in daytime roaming about, more often than you'd think.

Fish, will come up and nip the camera, the sinker, the swivel, the lure, the plastic and the bait to see if it's edible, then return to the bait for consumption.

All kinds of fish, snapper terakihi, blue cod, leather jackets...

Seems that sight will convince them to try the thing and taste/smell will get them to bite.

Trip over to port underwood today to get my Son away from his devices for a bit.
Spot one and 2 down the coast vis was so bad I couldn't make out my fingers if I stretched out my arm.
Back into the heads and out of the swell vis was better at maybe 1.5m and plenty of Paua around but the biggest of the groups were all 1-2mm undersized.
Spot 4 and maybe 2m vis here...plenty of paua but same again with the size.
I must have removed at least 50 of the biggest in the patch to get one keeper.
Kiakoura being closed for so many years sure has put this place under pressure!

A first for me on a softbait. Good fun

Originally Posted by Gibo

A first for me on a softbait. Good fun
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Hi Gibo - looks like u use a swivel before the clip which I have not seen before . If u don’t mind me asking what do u see as the benefit of having a swivel at this point?

Cheers AMac

Originally Posted by AMac

Hi Gibo - looks like u use a swivel before the clip which I have not seen before . If u don’t mind me asking what do u see as the benefit of having a swivel at this point?

Cheers AMac

Just sick of so much braid twist mate, still doesn't stop it completely. And the NT ones come like that

Originally Posted by Gibo

Just sick of so much braid twist mate, still doesn't stop it completely. And the NT ones come like that

Cheers and well done on the flounder ! Only ever got them in a net

Originally Posted by AMac

Cheers and well done on the flounder ! Only ever got them in a net

Give it a crack, if you can see them you can catch them. Listen to me ha ha caught one and giving advise

This is the bait I used. Mini crawfish from the local Hamils and a trout sized jig head.

That looks bloody tasty Gibo.

Originally Posted by Rushy

That looks bloody tasty Gibo.

thats what the flounder said

Just a had really enjoyable week staying at Wilson Bay in outer Pelorus http://wilsonbayfarm.com/
Went there with friends and their 3 kids (4,7,10). Fished everyday but 2 and those were spent just relaxing and going goat hunting with my wife or the 10yr old. My wife was rapt to shoot her first animals (large billy and a nanny).
Had the opportunity to visit a salmon farm and meet @300wsm for life. Amazing place and so much more labour intensive than I thought it'd be. Thanks Dan!
Our fishing good with it being fairly easy and rapid 2 blue cod per person when we wanted it. Also got a few gurnard, a kahawai and some butterfly perch.