Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Beaker

Oh hell yes!

Do any good?

Yip, we had a productive day. Limit on snapper in about 45mins with everything between 40-50ish cm. No whoppers, just great eating and easy to fillet fish. My favourite.

The hardest part was winding fast enough to get past the 3 bloody great sharks circling below the boat. They were all over 2.5mtrs and HUNGRY! Pretty sure one was a white but I'm no shark expert.

Then had a play with Jigs on 21 until we got tired. Heaps of king's about. Mostly rats around 60cm with the odd keeper.

Back at the ramp at 1.30pm for clean up.

Not bad considering we only decided to go on the day about 30mins before we left Hamilton.

Pretty lucky to have access to this sort of fishing on our almost doorstep.

Very slow start this morning.
Big lazy swell.
Great cod fishing, crayfish not so great.

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Yesterday we went and fed the Rays.





There's a couple of very big units.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Very slow start this morning.
Big lazy swell.
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Yesterday we went and fed the Rays.

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There's a couple of very big units.

Yeah. I've seen one of them

Happy birthday lads

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Tonight's results.
Anchored up and pump the berly.

It's a great part of the world.

Let this one go.would have gone close to 20 pounds.


Been trying our hand at jigging.
Our technique is pretty ugly but we got results.
Broke my rod on a big kingfish. Broke at the butt.
Maybe it was too light for the 80 pound braid?
Got a few good snapper on jack Mac livies intended for kingis.

It's a great part of the world for sure. Hopefully back up before too long.

Now I’m not one to gossip , but got a PM from a veteran fisherman, with the above photos …I comment they look like good keepers , then says …errr I may have being measuring them wrong and throwing back keepers…but it’s only gossip. My lips are sealed …

What a day! Lisa and I up early and on the road for Kaikoura.

Everything went well but the weather, arrived at the camp sat down had a hot drink, chewed the fat , then waited for the rain to clear, that happened, filled the boat with gear …check the steering I said, after the young folk turned up at okiwi with it all seized up!

All good dropped the boat in the tide, motor off the trailer , head for the wharf …everything goes loose …steering cable has snapped ..I kid you not ..the crew tell me I’ve jinxed them. Back on the trailer me turning the motor the skipper on the controls.

Back to camp, change boats as the weather holds ..back into the water the crew reckon they’ve had their back luck that runs in threes…pulled first pot 2 keepers, pulled next pot another handful , smiles getting wider and wider..

Dumped the diver over the side on a solid rock hit the bottom, nothing no cracks no crays ..oh dear the curse of stingray kicks again…climbed the rock face first overhang has a dozen shorts hanging tight …look up and what a wonderful sight a couple of keepers hanging like apples on a tree.

Round the rock into a crack of dreams crays in numbers I’ve never ever seen in 30 years of diving, now comes the crazy thing reach for the big one and all the shorts scream back into the hole …now you cannot see the big one just a wall of feelers seriously you can’t reach any horns as the are stacked on top of each other like a hedgehog underwater …it was simply incredible, so rose out of the cave and here are keepers sunbathing on top of the cave in the weed!

About now I’m smiling so hard my mask is flooding, cleared my mask and harvested a few more to fill my quota , surfaced beside the boat and handed in my catch sack. Blokes were pretty excited by now , as we had all being here over the years and three crays was a epic day / weekend and here we were with one more pot to pull and more crays that we had ever caught on all our trips combined.

Last pot in close right into cray pot alley, seriously there would have being 30 pots around us as we pulled our last one …5 more in the shark catcher 2 keepers and the rest back over the side.

Broke open a beer each, saluted the fishing gods and each other…what a bloody fantastic couple of hours.

Photos to follow. It’s late and the beer was cold!

Huge thanks to @veitnamcam and @Munsey and my lady Lisa …let’s see what tomorrow brings

Well some very seasoned fisher and diver may have been measureing incorrectly today as well.....after publicly giving a novice first timer shit about measuring wrong.
This is all hearsay of course ay.....you know who you are.

For the record both anonymous people were measuring on the side of caution.....zero under size were taken but quite a few takers were released.

Got the first fish of the year in today, water temps are way up and the snapper were all but jumping into the boat. All really similar sized pannies with a few carrots for variety .

Fish on the bite off Tauranga spots today but we caught nothing of substance.
Real hot.

Got a call from VC as I was driving home from work last night.
A quick conversation had me bypassing the Supermarket and shootimg home for a wet suit and then a quick scarper to catch up with VC and his boy, and Stingray.
We boated out onto the estuary and proceeded to drag the channels to clear them of seaweed.
First drag netted a lone fishy victim.
Several drags and repositions later we had removed a decent volume of weed from the sea and had a few more tasty specimens in the chilly bin.
An good evening out watching an impressive amount of mullet (we think) jumping and a fantastic sunset before heading back to the ramp.
More plans afoot.
Cheers for the evening lads.

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Was a beautiful evening alrighty.

@veitnamcam Yep moments like those truly let you forget about all the mundane things in life

" The Gods do not charge time spent fishing, against a man’s allotted life span."