Thread: New boat

Good stuff! Didn’t see it was so light.
Guess best to do with no wind

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Nice King
Snaps have gone off the bite last few weeks the whole top of the south.....Breeding time.

Yeah we had crap luck just before Xmas too.... got 2 legal ones this week but nothing big. When do they pick up again usually? Thinking of a Golden bay trip in Feb

Originally Posted by gimp

Yeah we had crap luck just before Xmas too.... got 2 legal ones this week but nothing big. When do they pick up again usually? Thinking of a Golden bay trip in Feb

Depends on the season.....this one is a late spawn often it happens around xmas or even before.
Mid to late Feb you might do alright.......I had some great days out in golden bay from late feb and march last year.

@veitnamcam - any Intel on Golden/Tasman bay at the mo? Looking at heading up there for a long weekend

Originally Posted by gimp

@veitnamcam - any Intel on Golden/Tasman bay at the mo? Looking at heading up there for a long weekend

Reports are they have come back on the bite here at least Will txt my uncle abd find out about golden bay.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Reports are they have come back on the bite here at least Will txt my uncle abd find out about golden bay.

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Awesome, cheers. On the road today with a ute load of 2 stroke mix and rods

Had a pretty good week, bit breezy from time to time. I hit it hard trying to get a kingi and not really focussing on other stuff, had no marks so spent a lot of time exploring. Did some massive 50k missions in the boat. Got heaps of cod, the odd snap, gurnard etc.

Went max 13km off to try troll for a tuna but that's insanely boring. I didn't touch a cut bait all week. Lures all the way. Calcutta 401D casts awesome for topwater and handled hauling in the kingi nicely on a terrible ugly stik boat rod

A good casting rod will make a heap of difference.

Definitely, got a 7ft Penn casting rod coming from the US

Think I passed you heading up towards murchison on Wednesday. Gave you a raise of the finger but figured you wouldn't see it. Tidy little setup you've got seems pretty well setup.

Ah I must have missed you. Yep it goes pretty well. Need a 15hp though

Popped off early from work and took the RIB out over the Hoki bar today. Went 10k out to the 40m+ contour just having a look really, dropped down a 100gm Lucanus for a drift but no luck, quite a fast drift. No worries getting over the bar today and it was like glass out on the ocean.

If anyone has any marks or suggestions for how to fish the area off Hokitika I'd be extremely grateful, without a big powerful sounder I'm pretty much fishing blind out there - if there even is any structure to speak of

Originally Posted by gimp

Popped off early from work and took the RIB out over the Hoki bar today. Went 10k out to the 40m+ contour just having a look really, dropped down a 100gm Lucanus for a drift but no luck, quite a fast drift. No worries getting over the bar today and it was like glass out on the ocean.

If anyone has any marks or suggestions for how to fish the area off Hokitika I'd be extremely grateful, without a big powerful sounder I'm pretty much fishing blind out there - if there even is any structure to speak of

You have to go way further out unless chasing pelagic fish mate. 400m+ near the Hoki trench.
I do know of some kingis and albys that were caught not too far out tho.

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