Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Photos @Puffin photos, and a story or three to boot

Sometimes the fishing is too good! First couple of drops yesterday morning and enough fish for the week. Now what? Very short fishing trip.

No story (not really my thing sorry), though we did visit a few places like this...



...and saw a few of these...





Spectacular scenery and weather for the whole trip.

Had a cracker morning at 32 metres in Tasman bay with 17 snapper caught all before 7 30 and back at the ramp by 930

Hey ,
Do any of you other lads with sea salt in their blood , do well off the set line but do absolute crap off the rods ?
Go out off wanags and do alright but could do alot better , pretty much saved by the fact we have set lines down.

Originally Posted by Jusepy

Hey ,
Do any of you other lads with sea salt in their blood , do well off the set line but do absolute crap off the rods ?
Go out off wanags and do alright but could do alot better , pretty much saved by the fact we have set lines down.

Some days its the only way you catch them, then other times you do great on the rods and piss all or nothing on the longline.

WICKED!

Off Kawhia or Raglan ??
How did you get it in the boat ??

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Out of Kawhia but midway between Piritoki and Awakino in 48 meters.
Someone on the bill and someone pulling a rope around the tail and they slide in ok. The one on the bill has to stay on their toes once the fish gets over the balance point. Could get a spike through them. Calm conditions make it a bit easier.

I remember was it 2 - 3 years ago off Kawhia was all the go
Well done !!
How long to land ??

Awesome. Looks like it was a slow learner..

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Awesome. Looks like it was a slow learner..

Be interesting to see where it was tagged @7mmwsm

Spent 4 days up the island with some epic fishing, large crays, good snaps on the setlines and the rods. @veitnamcam two kingfish on 2 drops, thanks for setting up my rig / gear the other day. I now understand what all the joy is about, all be it they weren't massive but bloody good fun.
I'm waiting on some pics to come through, will post them when received. @7mmwsm congratulations on the marlin, it's on my bucket list...

Had a blinder of a Tauranga 1 Base. We ended up with 3rd for Mahimahi, 2 tagged Stripeys, 1 dropped Stripery and we dropped a good Blue at the boat. Such a good trip, had one of the stripeys up at the back of the boat chomping on the teaser, pulled that in when it let go and it dropped straight back onto the lure behind it, text book stuff.

Some cool footage in hand so will whip up an edit over the next few days

Good shit @Gibo !!

+1 for the "looking forward to the video"

Earthquakes didn't put the fish down then ?

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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Looking forward to the video.
Did you get a look at the huge Black weighed at Tauranga over the weekend?

Yeah mate checked it out in the chiller beside three 250-260kg Blues - made them look like small stripeys! , was fricken unreal!

Originally Posted by kukuwai

Good shit @Gibo !!

+1 for the "looking forward to the video"

Earthquakes didn't put the fish down then ?

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Nah mate didnt seem to, the Friday of the quakes etc was when we had all the marlin action, missed bite at 9am then tagged the two in an hour at 2:30-3:30. Got the hit on the blue as it went dark, went bat shit crazy jetski'ing back and forth!! was frothin!!