Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Awesome Must get out and do more fishing rather than chasing deer. Hey cam, on those gurnard do you just fillet them or do you use the secret method.
that takesthe guts out and skins them all in one go?

Originally Posted by deer243

Awesome Must get out and do more fishing rather than chasing deer. Hey cam, on those gurnard do you just fillet them or do you use the secret method.
that takesthe guts out and skins them all in one go?

I tend to fillet them and leave the guts in untouched.

Always keen to learn something new tho.

Far that's flat.

This was Saturday avo out in Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island in the background. Flat for here!! Fishing was primo, 20 cod this size in just over a hour.




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Originally Posted by JoshC

Far that's flat.

This was Saturday avo out in Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island in the background. Flat for here!! Fishing was primo, 20 cod this size in just over a hour.




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Nice!

Hopefully it stays that good down there and our cod fishery improves, over the trial closure of the sounds fishery for recreational fishers cod size and abundance didnt change but commercial take increased 40% !

Its clear where the problem lies with our fishery.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Nice!

Hopefully it stays that good down there and our cod fishery improves, over the trial closure of the sounds fishery for recreational fishers cod size and abundance didnt change but commercial take increased 40% !

Its clear where the problem lies with our fishery.

So yours is getting better?

I've been fishing down here since I was a kid, so 20 years plus. Used to get good cod off the rocks, but harder to do that now.

Saturday would've rated up there as one of the best days in years for numbers of fish and of consistent size. We're lucky in that the weather plays a huge role in protecting our fishery, both from a commercial and recreational perspective.

For us min size for Southland is 33cm and 20 per person-all of the cod I caught were 38cm or bigger. Got 4 that went 50+cm!

Rarely do we take our 20 each - especially if off the boat when there's 5-7 of us. That's alot of fish!

I only ended up with 5 of them after 3 stops to visit friends on the way home!

Originally Posted by JoshC

So yours is getting better?

I've been fishing down here since I was a kid, so 20 years plus. Used to get good cod off the rocks, but harder to do that now.

Saturday would've rated up there as one of the best days in years for numbers of fish and of consistent size. We're lucky in that the weather plays a huge role in protecting our fishery, both from a commercial and recreational perspective.

For us min size for Southland is 33cm and 20 per person-all of the cod I caught were 38cm or bigger. Got 4 that went 50+cm!

Rarely do we take our 20 each - especially if off the boat when there's 5-7 of us. That's alot of fish!

I only ended up with 5 of them after 3 stops to visit friends on the way home!

Our snapper fishery is recovering...for how long remains to be seen because the comercials are calling for a quota increase on them.

There is no evidence the cod fishery is improving despite heavy restrictions on recreational fishers because commercial take what the recs dont as proven in the total catch returns.

We are 2 per person @33 or greater.

Our scollops have been near fished out of existence and now the sounds is closed and the eastern side of Tasman bay...but yet there is still trawlers towing their bottom gear over the closed scollop grounds smashing scollops and smothering them in a cloud of silt.

Cam, what you do is take the whole gurnard as is, ungutted, hold the tail and cut the spikes and fins of the top of its back. So in other words take a few mils of its back taking the fins and spikes of. Then cut behind the head until you break the bone then grapping the head you just snap the gurnard in half, , pulling the skin off in one good pull and the guts just comes out as well. So you now have a skinless, gutless fish and its done in seconds. Check out Utube, shows you there and seems to work well on the ones ive tried it on

Still full of bones though ?

Originally Posted by Pengy

Still full of bones though ?

Yes, still have to fillit it lol but its a real quick clean way to gut and skin a fish in a couple of seconds

I like them skin on

I'll check that out. If skinning I just do them like a cod knife the first bit then rip it off.

I like them skin on too., generally do about half and half.

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Up early yesterday to catch up with VC, loaded gear into the boat and headed off sharking. down the chanel and out into open water to find a nasty wee chop. So we eased up and watched the sounder for fish sign, when we hit on some we dropped the hook line and headed out a bit futher to another patch of marks and dropped anchor and burley. Set out our rods and set to yarning...we checked baits and eventually watched dawn break and the fishing come on ..NOT ..to much fresh water the skipper says so over to pick up the hook line and with the sea easing we put the hammer down and headed for deeper cleaner water.

That done we re baited the hook line dropped it over the side moved away and set about burleying up a storm once more much to the delight of a freindly dotterel / petterol ( not sure which) that sat right at the back of the boat grazing quite contently on the scraps coming from the surface burley pot. VC as the first to score with a savage strike and bent rod that had me reaching for the net and both of us hoping for a by catch of pesky snapper ..but alas it was the target species of shark, after returning it VC was again in the action with a horse of Kawhai!! Myself I soaked baits and admired the bird life the jelly-fish and the lovely way the sun shone through the clouds.

Meanwhile VC wrangled a steady stream of sharks not just the normal spikies he was going hard slaying greyboys , small rig the whole works and with a finial flourish he boated a fat gurnard, that was enough for me I protested the wind and VC relented and we headed over to recover the hook line , VC being the top bloke he is took the risk of letting me bring the hook line in, which I almost managed with out incident ..only one tangle around the handle and chucking the clip trace hook over the side rather than the shark (sorry VC)!!

With the line on board with another two beauty Kawhai and the targeted sharks returned for next winter we headed over to VC never ever fail spot and ran the lures out..... long story short I some how managed to hex this spot as well .

A huge cheers to a top bloke VC for taking me out and yarning up a storm and turning a blind eye to my ham fistedness!!
Thanks VC it was a blast

Awesome day by the sound of it nonetheless @stingray

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@veitnamcam
You are a sucker for punishment mate

My pleasure Stingray.

Give it another go when we have had a spell of decent weather.