Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by AMac

With blue cod off the menu in Pelorus until 11/1 might try to break my duck and try for a legal Kingfish this Xmas holidays.

Would appreciate any advice on what other have found to work best in the sound ie trolling vs jigging vs live baits, what conditions should I be looking for to find them ie tide coming in or out, current, mid channel or around points, reefs, pinnacles etc early morning or evenings etc.
Any advice much appreciated thanks.
AMac

Not a lot of intel …troll past mussel farms with rapalas , pilchard coloured , water temp 18 degrees and above ,

We lucked into two last year burleying for snapper sitting off mussel rafts one day once .

In the inner sounds you have plenty of banks and drop offs current is your friend the more the look for bait schools on you sounder and jig pink and white lures ..if you hook up skull drag the kingi to to deep water.

Troll bird work ups…put a free diver in to see what’s around ..don’t waste time on empty schools ..

Be the first person on the pack / school of kingis , once one or two have being caught the rest wise up and go off the bite ..you will see them on the sounder but they will be lure shy

Thank you Stingray ��

more swimming lessons for some worms

Couple days over Totaranui. Easterly swell ment the ramp was borderline unusable.
Had a bit of a surfcast and got a eagle ray and 3 kahawai.

So far today hasn't been flash...unless you consider meter long eels desired catch which we don't... Moved to another but of shoreline,won't stay long the temperature is rising,due to hit 30 soon.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

So far today hasn't been flash...unless you consider meter long eels desired catch which we don't... Moved to another but of shoreline,won't stay long the temperature is rising,due to hit 30 soon.

Those little meter long eels are sopost to be fantastic eating smoked if you are in a area it is legal to harvest them.
Never actually tried one myself

Lovey morning in the top of the south



Probably my last chance for a fish before Christmas so really enjoyed it ! Great to get a feed



This was the catch of the day



Dare I say it....caught on a sub surface bibbed minnow Gave him a good tussle !

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Nice Trev. Great eating too.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Nice Trev. Great eating too.

Just going to sear the loins. The rest is heading for poki sauce. Delicious

Back at the beach at 8.30 this morning so was just a quick visit. Mind you there is plenty of chirping in the trees at 5am at the moment

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Big tides too.

Originally Posted by madjon_

Big tides too.

Yea!! We were out of Stevens bay before low. Could almost walk to the mussel farm

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Teenage fun. Back beach last night.
Released unharmed and swam away strongly



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Bit of a sad day today, my birthday buddy is at sea , and folks were busy with family and travel and work.

So with work buggering up a Friday fish , and life getting in the way on Saturday, we made it to okiwi Saturday evening, caught up with a couple up the road that had a large Mako, chew on their duck bill and consume a couple of snapper as they were wound in.

Up at VC o’clock, to catch the change of the tide plus an epic weather window, steamed up the coast heading for last years fishing grounds, 35 meters and its glassy …seen as VC wasn’t on board I was tasked with stray lineing , that done and with rods everywhere, Lisa’s rod loads up and then the reel howls , her smile was a big as a great whites, a bit of back and forth and our first snap for the season is welcomed aboard.

My stayline takes off and I’m all excited only to find a hard fighting southern sailfish ..piss , then as in putting on a new rig , my standard rig starts giving line …well bugger me a large gurnard , then it went nuts every bait was getting chewed , we were running 60lb supple trace and both got chewed off, so went to tough trace and this seemed to do the trick.


Lisa boated another solid fish and I whilst being a good husband dropped a very nice fish…then the burley ran thin and the rubbish fish turned up…boated one more snap the a carrot, I’m sure a second burley would have saved the day as even with small tide we had a good ebb tide running.

So with a snake tangled around the burley and a spikey on the other side we called it quits,

Geared up and dropped on a rock going from memory , because my GPS is AWOL , tits one , then the second , then a bloody third.

Couldn’t believe it was amateur hour, drifted over some average turf only to see the local victim sitting in a go nowhere crack, managed to sack her , saw a few heap of shorts after that, but nothing worth bothering.

Back in the boat, the sun was staring to beat down , so we retreated for home.

Enough snaps to share with family and the neighbours and a tasty treat for Xmas eve.

so wishing you a happy getting older day VC , missed you today , and will have a beer or three for us tomorrow!

Get home mate the waters blue and it’s looking good on and under the water.

Happy birthday to both of you good buggers

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My birthday last moth was alone with tons of works ahead, stayed in a motel Auckland for two months long, not a shitty motel of course. Only two people from home sent me happy birth day greeting, 50 yo The strange thing is I did `t get hangover in the next morning....