Would anyone be keen on doing a forum surfcasting weekend

Been thinking this over for a while and thought wouldn't it be good to have a forum surfcasting weekend, would be ideal for the spring or summertime when the weather warms up a bit. Would anyone be keen to do something like this for a change would be good to have a few forum landbased fishing weekends as a bit of a different pace to forum hunting trips. I say landbased as it is a cheaper alternative to boat fishing as not everyone can afford to pay to go on a boat plus numbers would not be so restrictive for landbased fishing trips.

I might be, I havnt been in ages, hunting has got my attention. but I will be interested in the details.
maybe we could still hunt seagulls, opps, that was out loud wasn't it :)

Nelson is good round November

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90 mile beach? Can stay up at Ahipara for next to nothing and head north or just fish there?

Would be up for that.Not sure i can make it as far as 90 mile beach or Nelson, but will await further developments.

My train of thought was hold them around the bay of plenty such as Waihi, Pikowai, matata, Pukehina, Otamarakau etc for east coast and Ocean Beach (Kawhia) Ruapuke etc for west coast but have members from different areas organize them as they would have good knowledge of the area and the south Islanders could do the same I for one would love to have a go at surf casting down south as well as having a go at salmon fishing as well as fishing west and east coast beaches further towards the cook strait as I have never fished any further south than Ohope beach. The upside is forum landbased fishing weekends can have family involvement too so the kids can get out there for a bit of fun too.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Nelson is good round November

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Would give me a good excuse with the ex-wife to have my son for a weekend too without her new husband being a dick about it if I headed down to nelson for a fish.

Don't expect me to be a guide tho I fish from a boat:D

But people do do ok from shore at that time of year

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A north islander coming south to go surfcasting would be like a west coaster going north to go white baiting :(

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Originally Posted by Munsey

A north islander coming south to go surfcasting would be like a west coaster going north to go white baiting :(

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True.

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Originally Posted by hunter308

My train of thought was hold them around the bay of plenty such as Waihi, Pikowai, matata, Pukehina, Otamarakau etc for east coast and Ocean Beach (Kawhia) Ruapuke etc for west coast but have members from different areas organize them as they would have good knowledge of the area and the south Islanders could do the same I for one would love to have a go at surf casting down south as well as having a go at salmon fishing as well as fishing west and east coast beaches further towards the cook strait as I have never fished any further south than Ohope beach. The upside is forum landbased fishing weekends can have family involvement too so the kids can get out there for a bit of fun too.

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you could head up Coromandle stay at doc camps up there. you might even attract some scuba divers along.

Give me the river any day,but hopefully next winter we will catch up with Chris again as our first surfcasting lessons from him were memorable for the family.

Saltwater fishing is like a box of chocolates dundee you never know what you are gonna get that is why I enjoy it more than freshwater even though I have a soft spot for trout fishing I enjoy the fight but I let em go as I am not much of a fan of trout when it comes to eating it.

fair enough Hunter,we enjoyed last winter with Chris and the surfcasting;)

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Originally Posted by Dundee

fair enough Hunter,we enjoyed last winter with Chris and the surfcasting;)

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Just wait till ya pop ya cherry on a big salt water fish mate you will never turn back after that :P

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Originally Posted by hunter308

Just wait till ya pop ya cherry on a big salt water fish mate you will never turn back after that :P

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I got it all sorted for ya Mr Dundee ,spot-x A ,B,C & D .Plus give the torpedo a swim or 2 .

I'm keen on the forum surf casting weekend if its not too far to travel .

If this rain keeps up the coast will be here in no time:D
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Originally Posted by Chris

I got it all sorted for ya Mr Dundee ,spot-x A ,B,C & D .Plus give the torpedo a swim or 2 .

I'm keen on the forum surf casting weekend if its not too far to travel .

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What would be the max distance you would travel to go to a forum fishing weekend? we could always organize one for waihi beach and also really tempted to try and get one going for mokau or somewhere like that to see what the west coast down towards the naki can do. At present I am in the process of trying to upgrade the surfcaster to something bigger and better than the 12 foot abu garcia I bought from the warehouse back in 07 seeing i like to fish both east and west coasts.

Max distance : 150-200 km maybe . I'm running a pair of 16' Penn power sticks @ $100- $120 not expensive but do the job.
The big rod is a big lever sorts things pretty quick ,my biggest ray so far is 65lb .

I used to have a penn powerstick that was set up with a daiwa reel and spooled with 50lb braid used to love that rig and caught some really good fish on it but some little bastard stole it out of my wagon one night many years ago while I was staying in a motel in thames. Looking into a 15 foot shakespeare ugly stick gold or a 16 foot shimano I was going to do a layby last week but I just have to wait for a couple of weeks to see whats gong on before I do anything in the upgrade department.