Two spots less than a meter ... Were we got the feed I could see my fin tips .. It's a mint spot heaps of wicked turf it might fire up in the spring! Would suit a forum trip... Hint hint
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Two spots less than a meter ... Were we got the feed I could see my fin tips .. It's a mint spot heaps of wicked turf it might fire up in the spring! Would suit a forum trip... Hint hint
Bring it onQuote:
Originally Posted by stingray
:thumbsup: braille diving nice work
I have been thinking about bumping the old thread for a while:)Quote:
Originally Posted by stingray
Training dive last night. Low tide 20 ft vis flat calm ... A young bloke took the bait and young Jessy ( sinker ) took the bait and came for a swim.
He was mad keen, we dived the edge of the vis cracking kina and watching each other dive. Saw a little bit of plankton and very small jellies all in the top foot of water. Old mate spotties got amongst the kina we hit any rock or crack that looked handy and spooked out a wrasse and a small occy. Sinker kept me in the water right until the last of the vis and yarned up a storm back at the car park.
He texted today he's got himself a buoy and a little blue knife, he's good now with a bit of diving the bugger will be damn dangerous!
Off to Okiwi Saturday if the weather holds all I need is half a day ..butters to shoot.
Again spare seat cost ya $20 fuel. Pm me
Again spare seat cost ya $20 fuel. Pm me . Can you swing past and pick me up for $20 :D
Smart arse. :thumbsup:
well ya didn't miss much, 25 knots of south east.
Snuck out got some reasonable cod and tanked the scallops at 45ft, a bigger boat would have run the mad mile and found a lee shore at durville but not us.
Ran the sounder over some new ground and picked up some turf worth a tank about 60ft (next time)
Swam at the Glen last night with about 30ft vis,me and sinker heading out again tonight!! Still no kingi's or kawhia but when they show up I'll be ready.
Glen last night, vis out to 30ft, beautiful diving conditions tide in so hunted weed beds for a start .. nothing of interest.. out to 40ft. On the edge of rock/sand. where there is the odd (tree?) of weed, cracked Kina from the surface and smashed em on the bottom lured in a single blue cod and a large wrasse and the normal spotties.
Dived well with good vis and comfortable conditions saw me getting good breath holds and bottom time. With sinker and I spotting for each other it made ideal conditions to push ourselves nothing silly but working on pushing our limits out a bit.
Single cell plankton plankton were in the water coloum from the surface to 15ft deep, they looked like tiny jellifish about 5mill round with a single tenticle each side of their canopy, you would get three in a handful of water but swimming back to the surface they shone like gems in the sea. From a light purple/blue to a gold/copper colour with great vis and a setting sun they were very spectaular, millions and millions of them in every direction. As well as these in the top two feet of the tide were the other egged shapped ones about 10 mill thick and 20 mill long.
Exiting the water we found a dead half grown seal, looked pretty skinny as you could see its first four ribs and could not see any net marks or other damage so I'm picking it couldnt get enough tucker to keep going after mum left it to its own devices.
Cabel bay will be another spot to hunt with day light savings kicking in. A bit more turf around the coast there should hold more more interesting and edible species.
Sounds magic Stinger :thumbsup:
It was Gibo, just waiting for the warm water. It's hovering around 13.5 just another 2 degrees and it will be all on. :)
13.5 degress, madness, swimming is only for when the boat is sinking :) Snapper are already here in the bay ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by stingray
Then the hunt begins!!
went for a dive at a good possie at tora last weekend, water was nice and crisp with about 2-3m of vis. got my quota of pauas withing 10 mins, half a dozen kinas and one cray, wouldve got more but my dive was interrupted by mr stingray mooching around me seeing what i was upto so i decided to get out haha.
dont worry about the stingrays mate they are friendly enough
they are just after your paua
i went for a freedive yesterday and got 5 paua a full catch bag of kina and 2 reds and a pack horse, pretty good fathersday gift for ol dad
not too bad for the first time back in the water since bieng spoilt by tropical warmth in niue mid winter
spear gun rubber broke and gave me a hell of a fright too
Any photos of the packhorse?
You get up to much in Niue? Was there last year, apart from handlining yellowfin just offshore things looked a little bit quiet there....Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill999
No photos sorry. They are just a black crayfish tho not too different from a red
Niue was great. The locals catch yellow fin tuna from their vakas on dead bait but I never saw any when diving
I had one charter, caught a wahoo on a lure trolling and hopped in the water at a deep fad 700+m and shot 2 mahimahi and another and got a third
I also night dived and got a bag of painted Crays and a Spanish lobster saw loads of sharks guys using scuba didn't see any
Had one shark try me out and had to poke him a few times
He ended up swallowing a 20+lb parrot fish I had on my float line
I had to cut him off which was interesting
Water clarity is unreal 80m is not unusual
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Was a good trip pm me if anyone's planning to go and I'll give you a few tips
Man that is some beautiful blue water, real game fishermans colour! :thumbsup:
thats 700m straight down gibo
its definitly different from bieng happy with 4m of vis in NZ
they do catch GT and marlin there but aparently no one wants to?
and aparently GTs are hard to find/catch
Who doesnt want to catch marlin? Rocks in their head ha ha!!
I love being out the back (way out the back) when you cant see land and the water is like sappires and its over a km deep!
Las t time I was in the Solomon Islands the boat I was working onwas installing FADs in 4300m water depths. 5 ton lup of concrete and a lot of rope with a raft 20m below surface and buoy on surface. I can tell you swiming in in water that deep is a little nerve wracking as lots of bitey things live there too :)
I expect the GT's are riddled with ciguatera?
Yea my thoughts exactly, I was hoping to see a marlin at the fad and poke a hole in it no luck tho
Yup all big reef fish were a no go for me
I sure do miss that deep dark blue and I'll be trying out a bit of marlin trolling this year
My spear gun and gear will come too, keen on jumping in at those massive bait balls and seeing it up close
I ate mahimahi the whole time we were there best fish iv ever eaten
Mate if you are up at the Mt/Tauranga this summer we will chuck you in amongst them no worries. :D Most people go trolling straight past them all ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill999
Sounds good mate ill tee up a time in marlin season
Yeah mate sounds good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill999
Back to Kaikoura again, checked forecast and made last min decision to get our shit together and go, well the forecast was spot on and the trip down was mint,we arrived to a flat calm Kaikoura but crap vis north , so using my vast experience :ORLY: I set sail for the south side , vis improved enough for us go get wet. Did an hour of grovelling round in the weed and rocks where I knew holes were, the team lost interest and with me having a bloody amateur hour, leaking mask ,fogging mask , jock strap un done, I was glad to get out and regroup.
Had a brew warmed up and with low tide we hit a handy looking spot ... Got wet again but vis had gone from 1 meter to 1.5ft shit really. So redemption spot beckoned and we headed there, arrived to meet a couple of tankers getting out, is 1.5 amongst the rocks they said and plenty of butters .. In we rolled dived for an hour and a half until the cold water got to us, well redemption has bring well picked over still heaps of small crays but the only two legal looking ones were gone as soon as I shoved my head in the hole. Butters were there but they saw ya and were gone in in a flash. Got a good feed of paua and a handful of large fat kina.
Great day all in all over four hours in the water, waiting for the blue water as this is the third trip of crap vis, still no tide line where you can see the clear water from the cloudy it's all one colour as far as I could see, so mite be a while yet.
Got up to see fresh snow on Ben Nevis guess it mite be another week yet.
Went for a dive last weekend when beach hop was on, was lucky if it was 1m vis, can't wait till the weather gets better
Yeah, over summer you can see a tide line from the road where the blue/clear water is,but right now it's green to the horizon...looked on line for a website with current temps around NZ. No luck yet, That said the locals say they haven't had a real summer for three years where the blue water comes in real close. Maybe this year!:)
Great weekend, good weather, clear seas and some Moki murdering ... Attachment 29954Attachment 29955Attachment 29956
Cod were legals , just not large... No time to be fussy. Moki went 50 & 52 cm one each , let young bloke shoot to day missed a few butters, not a lot of experience, saw 5 crays, they all got to live another.
Awesome weekend for it:cool:
man im getting jealous! almost 2 weeks of no swell off our coast, come my days off on thursday i hope i can get some of the huge wairarapa pauas and crays!
photo's please!!! :)
so after nearly 2 weeks of no swell, no wind and no rain, i was bitterly dissapointed to get to the coast today hoping for crystal waters and crays and pauas everywhere i was instead greeted with a screaming north eater churning the sea to a bucket of shit. still managed to get a feed of blue cods before calling it quits after only an hour due to the building winds and chop. so the wait continues....
Damn.. know that feeling all to well.
yes it sucks, looks like itl be at least another fortnight till its half decent aswell. it will keep them commercial guys out of it aswell i guess so not totally bad
