Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

So I’m back, healed and ready to tear into it!

I missed the top of the south gathering, but @ROKTOY took pity on me and organised a flounder bash at our local!

Met a few bloody top folks and little top blokes , sorted who was going on the deep end and away into the tide, they hauled, I advised , and boom …..a bloody ray , then a second ..beached the drag and roktoy and I sorted out the rays with wide eyed little blokes sharing the moment getting the rays back into the tide with a bit of untangling and mud and spray.

Then all hands on the net clearing weed sticks and shells , this drag went great with 8 flatties hitting the sand 4 shorts were lifted back into the tide and the other 4 into the bin, with a flooding tide we headed up for the dry , stopping for a quick dip up stream and another few very large flatties .

We ended the evening with a sausage and bread feed, but the sun went down and the chill crept in and sent us home.


Part 2

Down to okiwi with VC and his lad, beers in the fridge and tucker in the cupboard …boat loaded with dive gear out to a handy spot , average conditions but good vis for the top of the south, VC and son into the tide, but testing conditions…well tested them …new foggy masks, choppy conditions all made it ….pretty shit really!

Friday , gave us a weather window of about 4 hours before clam seas and good conditions …well basically went to absolute arse.
So being on holiday we got up at 6 had a coffee , bacon and eggs and fried tomatoes, a yarn a cuppa and about 8am wandered down to the ramp, by then the breeze was setting in.

We hauled down the coast a found the swell had turned great vis to shit, VC dropped me in on some “ good looking turf “ and WOW it was just that holes ….cracks ………..and CRAYS …only thing was they were all only half grown and they were everywhere!

Now the thing about small crays is they have long antenna so when you roll over a rock or look in a crack you think …”you beauty crays” …….only to find a half grown pup instead of a barncaled full grown battler!

Well I went from crack to rock to cave to overhang all the same great turf with only pup crays.

In the end I managed two reasonable keepers, the other sizeable crays had seen divers before and headed way back as soon as they felt my presence.

Surfaced to find the weather had caught up with us, into the boat and a punch into the wind home!

The rest of the weekend went to shit wind and rain , which meant cards beer yarns and food …not at all bad! Just not diving!

Cheers to @ROKTOY , and @Happyjack and Allan ..sorry mate I forget your forum name .


As well as VC and his family plus my beautiful lady Lisa for another week / end of adventures, yarns and laughter , amazing food and memories.

Someone must have a photo to share ..so please put them up.
Cheers

Did a couple hours on the incoming tide yesterday in the Manukau. 200m from shore in 4-5 m
The smallest ones are 30cm.
Bloody nice to spend a couple bucks on fuel & half a bag of squid, and feed 6 for 3 nights.

Normally my hunting and fishing endeavours produce a very expensive food/cost ratio….