Winter fishing Tasman bay
Went out with the old man and a cousin for a fish Sat
Up early to be line in water at change of light I had managed to talk the old man into bringing his long-line.
Im sure this thing has been handed down from the whaling days:D
We set it of Delawhare bay and headed northish for some cod.
We did pretty well on the cod getting our quota with only a couple being returned gently as under-size. The rest were well over with a couple of real beautys.
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Sorry for the shit photos from my phone and Id had a few:yaeh am not durnk:
Heading back to pick up the long line I joked that it would have 25 spiny dogs on it, the old man replyed na 22 cos its missing some hooks:D
Well pulling it up and bugger me if every hook didnt have a fish on it,If you can call spiny dogs/sand sharks fish.
We did get one nice big fat Gurnard and this threasher(correct me if Im wrong fishos) was following it up.
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I grabed the gaff at one stage and asked if they were any good to eat and was told to leave it alone.All good we had a feed,My engineers Eye put it at around 3 meters.
After that we headed out to a secret summer snapper mark for a look and caught a few Ka...y (mental blank cant spell) to smoke and barracuda for bait.
All in all not bad for winter fishing in Nelson without going to Durvil Is.