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Got dragged out to the Ridge here, fishing in ~130m. Virtually straight into them, about 2/3 snapper, 1/3 terras and one baby puka. Two hours of medium slop to get out there but far nicer on the way...

I saw at least half a dozen examples of significant permanent hearing loss from diving over my (audiological) career. A couple were particularly bad.

All that's critical. Used to catch them commercially as a teenager and the final step was running sea water through the spine with the deck hose.

Fishing in 108m yesterday off Napier and hauled this up.

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A guy with us said Holy shit, that's a spotted gurnard which are as rare as hell. I'd never heard of, let...

Didn't get a single bluenose or even puka. Found Gemfish Central though

Had an unexpected visitor the other day while fishing off White. Were targeting terras in 110m with small gear on elec rods and doing well. All of a sudden the heavy rod bent over a fair amount and...

The greenies would prob say that's great as it stops overfishing :P

Quick session out off White yesterday. Generally hard work but these two made the bin look better. Bluenose was in 485m of water, thank god for the elec reels..

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You're right. For the hell of it, I got the missus to cook bits of pup 'puka and some gemfish together tonight. Both equally superb.

Once you get past the visual resemblance to "snakes", the flesh...

A gemmie caught off White yesterday. Bugger all fight in them.

We are both familiar with kingie weights and this thing was def in the 10kg region. We looked it up (after processing all the fish)...

My br-in-law in Nelson does just that- frequently limits out inside the Boulder Bank on snapper.

Mate was out of Whakas yest. Truly a millpond. He was back in with the limit quite early