Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Yeah, fight like demons on light gear and my household is happy to see them on the dinner plate. Usually raw or cooked in lemon juice. Pan fried when fresh is good too. I would rather catch trevally than snapper!

@MB How light are you talking? What rod/braid/leader strains are you fishing?

Originally Posted by Pixie Z

@MB How light are you talking? What rod/braid/leader strains are you fishing?

Rod 2-4kg
Reel 1000
Braid 6lb
Leader 6 - 10lb

Started off as a sort of combined agi and trout setup, then attempted to catch flounder with it. Failed at that, but picked up other species such as parore, kahawai and spotties on lures! Lots of fun. Getting a few trevally now. Big enough to keep. It's hit and miss whether you can land them, but you won't get anywhere near as many bites with heavier gear.

Originally Posted by MB

Rod 2-4kg
Reel 1000
Braid 6lb
Leader 6 - 10lb.

That's a feather light, I would snap the rod, line and stuff reel on the 1st strike

Originally Posted by MB

Rod 2-4kg
Reel 1000
Braid 6lb
Leader 6 - 10lb

Started off as a sort of combined agi and trout setup, then attempted to catch flounder with it. Failed at that, but picked up other species such as parore, kahawai and spotties on lures! Lots of fun. Getting a few trevally now. Big enough to keep. It's hit and miss whether you can land them, but you won't get anywhere near as many bites with heavier gear.

Nice to hear someone else has landed a Parore on rod and reel. I cheated though and used bait (sea lettuce).

Originally Posted by Shearer

Nice to hear someone else has landed a Parore on rod and reel. I cheated though and used bait (sea lettuce).

Catching a few now. Started off by accident. Turns out they are not vegetarian, but they are not fish-eaters either. They like eating crustaceans and will hit small "creature" softbaits. Just in case you didn't know, fishing for them in Aussie is a big thing. They call them luderick or blackfish.

[QUOTE=Shearer;1516110. I cheated though and used bait (sea lettuce).[/QUOTE]

Wait on? What? Say it ain’t so!

The lure guru ….used bait? Noooo!!!!

Working the charter boat yesterday over the Kaipara bar..........had some visitors.



Looked like Dad, Mum and bubs (bottom to top) brought junior over to teach him about boats.......They approached the boat 6 times and each time dad stayed between the boat and the other 2 but they got closer to the boat each time......on the 7th time dad was on the outside with bubs between him and mum...on the 8th time bubs was closest to the boat with mum on the outside and dad following bubs right on his tail.

Watching the baby mimic every move the adults were doing was amazing....their synchronicity was perfect.

Here is a close up of mum and bubs......



Only got 6 pics before I hit the reverse pic button on my phone and ended up with a few pics of my own ugly mug, fag hanging out the side of my mouth and an expression of awe on my dial...........

We had it out on moeraki the other week had a pod of prob close to 100 come in to the boat and start playing all round the boat wish I'd had the kids with me that trip got some cool vid of it tho

Originally Posted by stingray

Wait on? What? Say it ain’t so!

The lure guru ….used bait? Noooo!!!!

Yeah. It's a necessary evil sometimes.

Originally Posted by MB

Rod 2-4kg
Reel 1000
Braid 6lb
Leader 6 - 10lb

Started off as a sort of combined agi and trout setup, then attempted to catch flounder with it. Failed at that, but picked up other species such as parore, kahawai and spotties on lures! Lots of fun. Getting a few trevally now. Big enough to keep. It's hit and miss whether you can land them, but you won't get anywhere near as many bites with heavier gear.

Perfect, sounds very similar to what I've been using- 2-5kg rod, 2000 size reel, 4lb braid, and 6-10lb leader. Caught plenty of kahawai and a couple of searuns with it. Hell of a good time on the light stuff.

Trevally is my favorite pan-fried when fresh yum