Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Joe Schmo

First real attempt at fishing with the “new” boat. Took a local “silver gurnard” guide…aka spiny dogfish expert @ROKTOY.
Boat kicks arse, cruises at 20-25kt easy, top speed 37kt, stable as, can deploy 8 rods, room to fish 5 or 6, captain has no clue and must get his shit together but baby steps for the sissy merican :/
Was really hoping today would be a scouting trip with a pile of Kahawai mixed in but no dice on the NZ Salmon.
4hr
8 spiny dogs
1 baby Kahawai
1 barracouta
1 gurnard in a giant chilly bin
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Don't worry I caught nothing off the Pohara wharf in 4 hours except a suntan.

Yep have heard all you catch in Nelson in winter is spiky dogs, so I didn't miss anything over there @Joe Schmo

Originally Posted by stingray

It a tough time to chase fish in the top of the south, shit fish everywhere ..maybe we should go for a flat fish hunt!

Spring is a few days away then the big fat pre spawn snappers will roll in and tough days become a memory!

Heard that snapper have turned up over in Golden Bay ….going by our local history they start over the other side and slide into Mapua side of Tasman Bay then October they find the way across the bay , November goes full throttle, December they spawn and go slabby and off the bite ..then then the tucker turns up and the snapper , kings and everything go on the feed

I'm in for a flounder bash if a weekday @stingray

Originally Posted by Gibo

Sorry but a lot of his stunts were BS for TV.

Nobody pays attention when I say Facebook/youtube/Instagram have ruined almost every great hunt/fishery I’ve ever known…hopefully you never know what I mean.

Originally Posted by Joe Schmo

Nobody pays attention when I say Facebook/youtube/Instagram have ruined almost every great hunt/fishery I’ve ever known…hopefully you never know what I mean.

Not wrong, constant need to share and 1 up. I was guilty, have stopped sharing completely now. Keep it to who was there

I guess that would shut down a lot of the threads on this forum.

Originally Posted by Shearer

I guess that would shut down a lot of the threads on this forum.

I feel this place is a bit different. I was referring to Fagbook

Originally Posted by Joe Schmo

First real attempt at fishing with the “new” boat. Took a local “silver gurnard” guide…aka spiny dogfish expert @ROKTOY.
Boat kicks arse, cruises at 20-25kt easy, top speed 37kt, stable as, can deploy 8 rods, room to fish 5 or 6, captain has no clue and must get his shit together but baby steps for the sissy merican :/
Was really hoping today would be a scouting trip with a pile of Kahawai mixed in but no dice on the NZ Salmon.
4hr
8 spiny dogs
1 baby Kahawai
1 barracouta
1 gurnard in a giant chilly bin
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What Boat did you end up with Joe Schmo?

Ah the good ole Southern Sailfish strikes again, caught a few of those myself when i was living down that way. Kapiti Coast Snapper are been caught so assume they are moving inshore and down into the bay.

Cheers FBD

Originally Posted by Fat belly Dog

What Boat did you end up with Joe Schmo?

Hey FBD!!
Got a kit set 6m center console with a new 150 Honda. Damn good job on the welding, will be tweaking it to make it what I want over the next year ish. She’s got plenty of room…even enough room to carry a few bait n burley guys.

Originally Posted by Joe Schmo

Hey FBD!!
Got a kit set 6m center console with a new 150 Honda. Damn good job on the welding, will be tweaking it to make it what I want over the next year ish. She’s got plenty of room…even enough room to carry a few bait n burley guys.

NNNnnnnnooooooooooo!

Originally Posted by Shearer

NNNnnnnnooooooooooo!

He didn't have a burley pot onboard..

Originally Posted by ROKTOY

He didn't have a burley pot onboard..

What about human made burley?

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

What about human made burley?

It was too calm at sea that day.

Originally Posted by ROKTOY

It was too calm at sea that day.

I am living proof that it can never be too calm to chunder

Originally Posted by ROKTOY

He didn't have a burley pot onboard..

Give it time …

a fat bald barstard waits
…and watch’s
….stalks his next victim
…slowly edges foward
…..the snapper season is getting close
…the boat owner lures quietly catching gurnard and Kahawai…


The snapper start to run , the lure fisherman is in dismay as others slay the spring snapper .

.the bald barstard pounces brings burley , pilchards and squid onto the boat , they slay the snaps and the lure fisherman is never the same again

hiding his addiction for bait and burley from family and friends …spending crazy $$ at the local petrol station to purchase bait and burley !

A terrible story I see repeated many times…help out a fellow lure fisherman…get him onto a good solid supplier of burley and bait and save a good man from himself

Originally Posted by stingray

Give it time …

a fat bald barstard waits
…and watch’s
….stalks his next victim
…slowly edges foward
…..the snapper season is getting close
…the boat owner lures quietly catching gurnard and Kahawai…


The snapper start to run , the lure fisherman is in dismay as others slay the spring snapper .

.the bald barstard pounces brings burley , pilchards and squid onto the boat , they slay the snaps and the lure fisherman is never the same again

hiding his addiction for bait and burley from family and friends …spending crazy $$ at the local petrol station to purchase bait and burley !

A terrible story I see repeated many times…help out a fellow lure fisherman…get him onto a good solid supplier of burley and bait and save a good man from himself

Lol, I have a mate that must go fishing with bait and burley.

I do both, ....

We eat a lot of whole prawns, so I blitz the heads and
shells , throw some bait in. Add a few rolled oats and some cooking oil. And anything else thats kind of fishy. Sometimes i buy the fish oil and add some of that, or a while ago a asian shop had tins of fish for 50 cents, so a few of those went in a couple of blocks. Throw it in a ice cream container and freeze.

They seem to work ok.