Thread: Beginners guide to freediving/snorkeling

Sounds good mate ill tee up a time in marlin season

Originally Posted by Bill999

Sounds good mate ill tee up a time in marlin season

Yeah mate sounds good.

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 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 ...

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

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