Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by berg243

dont throw out your old flares just put some tape around each one to id it as out of date and leave in the flare container as if needed in an emergency use old flares first as they are probably ok .

Almost certainly....my late uncle used to service liferafts among other things.
Flares go out of date but it is highly unlikely they wont work.

Sweet worth knowing
Those rocket flares are a bit pricey

Got the 5th one to stick on my green popper this morning, tagged and sent home

Any one used Delaware recently ? No dramas launching?

Originally Posted by J J D

Any one used Delaware recently ? No dramas launching?

No dramas.....have you signed the petition?

Sure have and told all my fishing mates about it

Out from stevens bay this morning to the mussel farm. Always a sweet spot to launch at low tide as the sand is hard as.

People only have trouble there at high tide when their wheels are on the soft sand



Didn't bother with the set line, just had a bit of fun with the rods. Ended up with a few kahawai for the smoker. One nice gurnard and a few small brim for tea. Plenty of them about - let heaps go.

A good end to the school holidays for the boys



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Had lovely morning out of Delaware launched on the low tide and shot out to 35 meters and got 3 snapper around 10lb then went back into the carrot patch and got 18 good gurnard then back to the trailer for the high tide at 12

Originally Posted by J J D

Had lovely morning out of Delaware launched on the low tide and shot out to 35 meters and got 3 snapper around 10lb then went back into the carrot patch and got 18 good gurnard then back to the trailer for the high tide at 12

Would have been nice today too.

Originally Posted by Beaker

Lol, yes I'm a bit of a worrier.... Its just when you have had, inflatable life jackets, epirb, flares, smoke, etc.... The boat just doesn't feel right without them.....
Let alone the rods and reels, lures, etc.....

My theory is a big bucket of expired flares... Try enough of them and at least one will work! Also the paraflares are the same make as the ones we used in the army (only red dah) and we used ones 10 years plus out of date and they were ok..

A neighbour dropped off some Okaparu Kingfish yesterday – it was so good!
Took the dog for a walk down a nearby street track this morning and got a rat – then off to Sulphur Point ramps via Countdown for Muscles and a bait shop for Pilchards
We were going to take a run out to Pudney to try for some Terakihi and Kings – but a Guy at the baitshop reckoned Okaparu was better
Sea was fabulous – tried a few parts of the Okaparu reef structures but just small snapper – only one short flash of a few Kingfish – but they didn’t like our bait or jigging rigs
So the Bay of Empty once again – but enjoyable conditions – How did you get that Kingfish @Gibo - we need someone to show us how to catch BOP fish

I use casting lures mate. Poppers and stickbaits. I also do a fair bit of jigging in deeper waters say 40m plus. If you catch mackerel or small kahawai just throw a hook through their back and send them over, kingis cant resist a good livey. Not into it myself unless its a skippy for a marlin, like the challenge of getting them on a lure myself

Okaparu reef is good for kingis. So is Pudney, brewis and plate

Originally Posted by Gibo

Okaparu reef is good for kingis. So is Pudney, brewis and plate

Some favourites there me ol mate


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Sunday session, with VC and VC jnr , they accommodated my afternoon sport to include the fishing ...new channels different tides...first drag brought in 6 solid flats , put a couple of shorts back ,
I called go up the channel so we did , felt fish banging but nothing snagged .

Upped camp , moved channels current pushed saw mullet or small Kahawai hitting the drag and exploding back out and away .....Smaller tides saw less flood , time ran out and so we took a chance to drop fish off to family ..was a wonderful thing to be part of a family sharing fish with family , yarns laughter and all those great things ...tide flooded , we sailed home ..said our good byes ..shook the pee out of my wet suit . Home hot shower ..rang mum told her we have a feed of fresh flats for her and da , ..priceless ..cheers VC and Xavier you guys are million dollar men