If you can a biggish boat to put on the mooring and a dingy or kayak to get out to it is ideal otherwise you are either swimming to the mooring or waiting for tides etc to get out.
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Think you did really well Cam
Considering the Salted Bait - that I have never had luck with - but when shes all on it will catch - but I imagine that is not the case now/yet??
Gurnard are in closer her too. Not plentiful though.
Snapper being caught up Kenepuru from what I have heard.
Cod 7-8 LB :omg: and you threw it back :P
If it had of been late in the day caught (after the Marlborough Mini Mafia gone home) - the bugger wouldn't have gone back from my boat ;)
Especially staying out there.
Mans gotta eat and feed the nippers.
When they put a 100% stop to ALL commercial operating "inside" the Sounds (including Flounder which we can't get anymore) then I might go along with some of their "conservation/restriction" rules.
Bloody great looking Bluey
Wicked stuff bro, you lost some weight?
Yea.......the first study they did after 2 or 3 years of the cod closures and slot rule showed cod size and abundance had not changed at all but commercial take increased 40%....so effectively they took the fish off of recreational fishers and gave it to the commercials [emoji34]
Not worth my boat to not comply tho.
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Is it true - correct me if I am wrong
If you hook and boat a Cod - then release - its going to die anyways ???
Or is that just excuse rhetoric from a few hungry chaps that I know (including me :-(
Were did you launch from ??
Okiwi or Havelock (Gun smoke)
Awesome trip!
If it is mouth hooked and handled well with a wet towel and quickly released it should be fine....however a huge percentage of people who fish are not capable of handling a fish or removing a hook so they get squished to death and cooked on the side of a hot boat then released....those ones dont stand much chance of survival.
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