Thread: Boys fishing weekend

Despite our wives' collective disbelief, we managed to organise ourselves for a boys fishing weekend. We camped at Pouto Point on the Kaipara. Plan was kontiki fishing and off-roading on a Polaris and quad bike. Neither hold particular interest for me, but it was a lot of fun. The kontiki is an efficient way of fishing. We caught more than enough snapper to feed ourselves which was lucky because we ran out of sausages on day one. None of the fish were very big, but good eating size. A large school shark spiced things up a bit.

I hope the rolled quad was staged photo, and not for real. Some nice eating snapper.

Originally Posted by chainsaw

I hope the rolled quad was staged photo, and not for real. Some nice eating snapper.

Looks real to me

Originally Posted by chainsaw

I hope the rolled quad was staged photo, and not for real.

It was definitely for real. The guy is an ex semi-professional rally car driver. No injury other than pride. The piss taking was relentless

Noting better than guys getting together and shooting the breeze. looks like you had a great time.

Keep on doing it

That guy in the drivers seat of the side by side looks like a guy I know from down here in Tauranga

Originally Posted by MB

It was definitely for real. The guy is an ex semi-professional rally car driver. No injury other than pride. The piss taking was relentless

Good thing seatbealt is not compulsory for quad else outcome would be different.

Originally Posted by Inder

Noting better than guys getting together and shooting the breeze. looks like you had a great time.

Keep on doing it

Yeah, it was great. We should do more of it, but usual stuff, family, weather, work...

Originally Posted by Gibo

That guy in the drivers seat of the side by side looks like a guy I know from down here in Tauranga

Probably not him, but I wouldn't be surprised. Frosty is the kind of guy who knows someone in every town in the country.

Originally Posted by Snap 4T

Good thing seatbealt is not compulsory for quad else outcome would be different.

Yeah, we talked about that.

Pretty sure I saw you guys from the charter boat on the weekend.....Its a fantastic playground up there.

Originally Posted by Allgood

Pretty sure I saw you guys from the charter boat on the weekend.....Its a fantastic playground up there.

Yeah, we saw the charter go out. How'd you go?

Looks like a fun time.

Originally Posted by MB

It was definitely for real. The guy is an ex semi-professional rally car driver. No injury other than pride. The piss taking was relentless

problem there is he actually cant handle a quad that was stupido

Originally Posted by MB

Yeah, we saw the charter go out. How'd you go?

Went about 10 miles north of the north entrance.....stayed in close to the beach. 26 fisho's on the boat managed to get their limits. Snapper up to about 10lb.
Problem we had was our sonar/gps went on the blink just after we crossed the bar and we had to revert to experience/visual marks to find the fish.