Thread: FISHING THE BOP

Not much of a sea fisherman myself but had a few days in the BOP learning and having fun.
Bear with me as I can only load 5 pics a time so wait till I stop.

Boarded a 30 foot yacht in Mt Maunganui

Then cruised past these massive ships


Some were laden with logs

Gave the fishing a go but no luck

Possum Trapper caught a crab but lost it.....thank god he aint got crabs poor kid

Mrs Dundee and Sean Dundee were on board also

The first big ship that past us sent the yacht lisping a bit...fright no all cool

No fish but saw these fullas jumping of the mount

Then back too port

Mrs D nearly fell in while we were anchoring that was funny

Glad too get out of that City what a rush for the hillbillies
We then headed further North and met up with Chris.
Had a look at some rivers but no luck cause of recent rain.
Chris set up some surfcasters for us.

And he loaded a few rods for the young fellas.

Possum Trapper landed this wee one

Then Chris showed what the 16' can do after casting I rekon 150mtres plus
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Result nice fat 2 or 3 lb kawhai
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Thanks Chris I had more pics but that will do my holiday is over

Morning Dundee, Its a pity you farmers have to take your holidays at this time of the year. The fishing is quite difficult as you probably found.
How did you get on handling the yacht around the Tauranga Marina. Wicked rip through the berths isnt there. The hardest marina to manoever in and out of we found in all our travels.

Once I nearly cleaned up the fuel berth, my wife in all the pandomonium forgot to throw a hitch over the bollard so I could use it as a spring and nearly got towed off the jetty as in panic I opened the throttle and took of out of the place.

Big tides at the time.

Yeah Gaday Scribe we could certainly feel the current pulling us.Yeah thats our holiday over.
Heres a few pics that didn't load up last night.

And the Skipper on the yacht won a race the day we left out of 24 yachts so that was pretty cool also!

My good ole hometown (well Te Puke actually) spent a good amount of years fishing off the rocks at leisure Island, and a good amount of time fishing Otamarakau, Kaituan cut etc. Dunno if you went near Hewletts Road in the mount on your travels but where the BP truckstop and diner is there is an old house behind the bushes, I spent the first year of my life in that house when my father was a mechanic for NZ lumber company many moons ago.

yeap my home town as well born in breed. commercial fished out of there before and after leaving school parents owned central parade fish in chip shop from 78-84 we had our own boats to supply the shop. thanks for making me homesick dundee. next time your in tga for a fish look up mick at searchezy.com very good fishermen tell him mike the muss refered you, you might just get a discount.

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yeap my home town as well born in breed. commercial fished out of there before and after leaving school parents owned central parade fish in chip shop from 78-84 we had our own boats to supply the shop. thanks for making me homesick dundee. next time your in tga for a fish look up mick at searchezy.com very good fishermen tell him mike the muss refered you, you might just get a discount.

Small world aye, my parents owned the shell service station on the corner of SH2 and welcome bay road up till 1986 when they sold it back to its original owner.

Hunter308 I got that nervey when we hit the big smoke,I rang my brother inlaw and he drove us around too the harbour then back too his place when we finished up.Mucko thats a cool link there cheers for that.

Did you manage to avoid the traffic lights going south? Hope your lady got some of the fish .

Yeah I will let her eat some Chris. This pic wasn't on here .....check it out!

"SMELL THIS END SEAN"

Shame it wasn't bigger , maybe you'll come back for another holiday when the fishing is better & its a bit warmer.

Damn site warmer up there mate going too be -5 here tonight.We'll be back next year for sure.