Thread: Kaikoura snorkel / spearfish trip

Sat at kaikoura, review... took us 3 hours of free diving to secure our limit of crays... Dived only one spot for our limit, the problem being all our go to rocks were loaded up with undersize stuff (was great eye candy but no good for filling ya guts). We ended finding the keepers by themselves in amongst the weed, the females have dicthed their eggs and most of the bucks have shed, unfortunatley it seems the bigger bucks are still in the process of sheading). A week may well help.

Don't be put off by the colour of the Clarenece as the tides are taking the murk north away from the fishing grounds. Water temp is still at the refreshing temp but paua were at knee deep at low tide and the crays were from 1.5 meters to as deep as we could dive. You didn't have to go to the bottom as the crays were holding on the side of the rocks. Vis was very good saw Moki but no butters but differnt spots hold better numbers of butters.

All in all things are looking promising for the weekned cray and paua wise, will have to see what the weather does.