Thread: Another beuty day out

You could fish all night if you stay at the motor camp ,hoping the lettuce will clear in a couple of weeks.
Bit early for that stuff to be there ,normally end November . I heading up the coast tonight for the high tide.
Bite time appears to be after HT bout 1/2 hr but will see anything could happen ,like getting pissed off with this wind.
Got 1 nice pannie this morning ,that dinner sorted .

I may even look at going home a bit later so I can fish into the night a little bit but definitely going to give whiritoa another shot when it is full tide I like the look of that beach especially with the really steep shelving that it has and the shellfish population that I also saw must be a good 5-7 meters deep at full tide

Not much in the way of paddle crabs to worry about either & it drops off into deep water very quickly.
This is probably why there isn't much happening with these things inshore,this 1 close to 100lb & a mission to drag /carry back to the wagon.Still a lot of fun & gave me a good scrap,gets the blood pumping seeing 1 this size in a wave face with the headlamp.

That one should keep ya fed for a while definitely not a lemon fish is it a bronze whaler? would love to know what breed of shark it is don't know much about them. that one didn't try to get ya did it.

Think its either Sand shark or School shark ,not a Bronzie as was grey not the chocolate brown.
Yes it did have a go , head came round pretty quick when I grabbed its tail to drag it up the beach.
Lunch's at Farm Meats for the guys this week.Weren't happy when I told them I threw the previous 2 back.

Might have to come and try there at high tide next time and see if can get one of these buggers will have to dig out my 6/0 plus hooks normally only fish with 4/0 and 5/0

That was caught with 5/0 hooks Hunter ,I always fish 2 hrs each side of HT up there.

Thats bloody impressive Chris,did ya cut its throat or how do you go about killing something that size?

Only way I know is to remove the fins then gut them and maybe remove head .
Smack on the swede or iki spike don't seem to do much.
Cutting throat probably a good option . Just tied up like a banana till I got it home
stopped it thrashing round .

A deep East / West cut behind the head will do it Chris

Looks like a school shark bro


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Originally Posted by Rushy

A deep East / West cut behind the head will do it Chris

Got ya Rushy ,down threw the spinal cord same as a big ass eel . Stops em thrashing round.

Taught as much Gibo ,next guess was Sand shark but there's no spots along its back.

Did it have a decent jaw?

Originally Posted by Dundee

Did it have a decent jaw?

Not much in the way of teeth but I wasn't sticking my hand in there to check bite pressure.
Shadow didn't want anything to do with it either , nor was he impressed when I put it in the
back of the wagon with him.

Caught and released this one today over at Kawhia