Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

They will be killers. @stingray will probably garb a bunch

This kid!!!

Pretty impressive.
Should be a special prize when the fish weights more than you do

Originally Posted by rugerman

Pretty impressive.
Should be a special prize when the fish weights more than you do

Was one hell of a tussle! She is feeling it today ha ha

Wicked Gibo !!!
How long did it take and when do you find out about the jnr record?

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That's awesome! @Gibo

Originally Posted by kukuwai

Wicked Gibo !!!
How long did it take and when do you find out about the jnr record?

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Was about 50 minutes. No idea how long the ratification will take, have to send the line etc off to get tested.

You don’t really have to say much about that photo or smile…..I reckon it makes us all happy

Been some time since I’ve been out on a boat. A couple of nice Dollie’s taken from a local FAD.



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Originally Posted by Gibo

This kid!!!
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Fantastic Gibo

Originally Posted by AMac

Well home today packing up the boat in the rain always fun. First time in collective memory of a weekend in the sounds with no fish caught - the sea is a light brown in colour and you can only see down a foot or so. So lure fishing a no go and I don’t bring stinky bait anymore.

Still we got a gap in the weather yesterday enough time to add 4 solar panels on the roof. But no sun to see how much they improve the system over all.

Ah well back in two months !

Great to be back in the mainland got in to chch last night xmas with wifes side of the family this year.

Anticipation and soft bait supply both building for three weeks of fishing tomorrow!

Boxing Day driving north to Havelock in a hired ranger so i can pick up the new washing machine in Blenhiem- getting it on and off the boat might be fun as its just the two of us- at least it will be high tide when we get there.

Today heading over Arthurs Pass way for a few days to stay with a mate in his bach on bealey spur for a spot of “aging gentleman’s hunting” (he’s retired) theres a few deer about he reckons.

Took @stingray for a quick after work dive a couple of evening's ago.

Just managed to get back in before we ran out of water.

Took a mate and his Son out for a fish yesterday, first gurnards and snapper caught by the young fella.
He went really well no whining and didn't get sick.

A Xmas story(well Boxing Day) woke to my alarm, turned it off to wake up a hour later to a voice asking “ are ya coming ? “

Shit!! out of bed , into cloths , gear into the boat and away we went got to the ramp to find we were the last one on the water, shot out on glassy conditions, and more epic vis!

Geared up and in the water hit a bit of prospect turf , holes and cracks and caves but it wasn’t fishy even lacked resident cod and wrase,

Moved spots same again plenty of likely turf but only the odd short to see, plus a hand full of of carpet shark lurking in holes and caves.

Got in the boat again and the skipper looks around ..no boats about so drops me on the “ nest” a rock we found early in the spring. Looking from above it looks like a nothing boulder , but underneath is a maze of cracks and caves and of hangs, and folks were home …

Now I’m not going to lie to you and tell you I’m a good diver, I certainly tits up a couple of crays that I should have sacked, but then I ran into 3 crays fighting to get back into a crack and then realised they were stuck in a dead end cave so sacked two and the last one was jammed up and at the end of my reach. So was patting myself on the back only to completely tits the next one …then I scored a good keeper well back in the hole and then things went sideways so as I was sacking the good cray the one in the sack decided it was getting out..

So I’ve got a cray in me hand another jammed between my legs ( not highly recommended) trying to get shit sorted chewing air like I was swimming at the Olympics the one I’m holding onto is jamming a fighting claw into my thumb and the one between my legs is getting pretty upset, talk about amateur hour, what a bloody shambles!
Order was restored along with my dignity, got on with the diving sacked another check my gauges to see I was down to the red, so pulled the pin on an epic dive.

VC asks are the any left to hunt ..na I said I terrified damn near all of them, so we shifted marks and got VC in the water ,he came out swinging hitting crays and then surprisingly asked for his spear gun then he went cod mudering with a beauty pausing 40 cm , he saw a handful of crays and worked a lot of turf …

Got in the boat and we retrieved the insurance policy , first hook a lovely carrot second hook a fat as brim , next hook a starfish then another , the rest of the line was empty , so all in all a epic day out.

Thank you VC for you cunning ideas and bloody fantastic skippering!

What a day! Cheers Cam

We got checked over by Mpi when we landed. We were all good of course.
Had a yarn with the guy and he was the one to pull up the lady a few months ago with 1100 cockles for one person.
Good to see them there looking after the resources.

Arrived evening of 26/1 raining but got in and sorted before dark and solar had plenty of go in the batteries through to next day.
Woke to a nice clear morning but some chores to attend to.
Weed whack the grass, rake it up then mow. Jeez there’s been a spot of growth in pelorus this year ! Half an hour into the mowing hit a rock broke off a blade #%^*£€!!! Sigh, then hyper snoze says she can smell the septic tank pull the mushroom of shine a light in and oh bugger its blocked - so need to dig up the drain where there is a hatch where we can poke a very long pole down to clear the blockage- only it 20 years since i needed to do that! So where is the hatch wife says here i say there and after a lot of digging its there. Out with the rubber gloves and in goez the plunging pole a few times clears it. Cover it all back up and back to weed whacking.
Got up this morning and its nice and still so went for a wee fish - 2 nice cod 2 nice gurnard that will do the two of us for a couple of dinners.
Heading into Blenheim monday to look at a house we got a contract on - plan to rent it out til I retire then sell up in Auckland and move down to marvellous Marlborough!!
Hope to buy some lawnmower blades on Monday too..