Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by A330driver

Shearer mate...sorry about that,....no offense meant,......the misses takes photos of me and the dog,and says she can’t tell the difference,....funny how some people look like their dogs

Wouldn't have really minded if it was me in the photo

Love the honesty , love seeing those fish , only ever eaten two fresh out of the sea ...simply delicious!

Good day off the coast on Monday. Got to get better at photographing fish though

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Need to put fish in bin so they don't get trodden on.

Well firstly I'd like to say thanks to the primary school teachers for going on strike today as that led to us having an EPIC morning.

Home school started early....



Boat on the water and out a bit deeper than some of the recent trips. (20m) Dropped the long line, anchored up and Olly and I deployed a flasher rig and a stray line each.

After a few minutes my flasher got hit hard and that saw me connected to a nice size fish. There was a strong current at the time and the fish was using it to its advantage keeping me occupied.

Next minute my stray line starts screaming. "Grab it mate" i said to Olly "and go easy its only light gear"

To his credit he played it really well, showed a lot of patience especially with the fish going on some scorching runs!



Not sure how long it took to get it to the boat, felt like ages. Olly was very quiet the whole time except when he saw it and then it was "holy shit dad its massive, oh my god im shaking so much, get it in the net dad, get it in the net!"

It was a thumper!



Dad met us at the ramp when we got back and took it to his mates shop to get it weighted on his digital scales. Here's the printout, funny to see that if it was infact tomato and bacon sausages it would have been $132 worth



His day wasn't over though not long afterward he landed another cracker on his own strayline. We picked up the longline and thankfully it only had 1 snapper on it.

4 fish and I couldn't shut the lid on my chilli bin, 9am and we were on our way back in.



There was a fair amount off hooting and hollering on the way back. I couldnt hear it all over the motor noise but something along the lines of "I cant believe ive just caught a 20 pound snapper!"



Here is the 4 fish. Fom left to right on the chilli bin 16 Lb,15 Lb and 14 Lb.

Amazing!!

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

Well firstly I'd like to say thanks to the primary school teachers for going on strike today as that led to us having an EPIC morning.

Home school started early....



Boat on the water and out a bit deeper than some of the recent trips. (20m) Dropped the long line, anchored up and Olly and I deployed a flasher rig and a stray line each.

After a few minutes my flasher got hit hard and that saw me connected to a nice size fish. There was a strong current at the time and the fish was using it to its advantage keeping me occupied.

Next minute my stray line starts screaming. "Grab it mate" i said to Olly "and go easy its only light gear"

To his credit he played it really well, showed a lot of patience especially with the fish going on some scorching runs!



Not sure how long it took to get it to the boat, felt like ages. Olly was very quiet the whole time except when he saw it and then it was "holy shit dad its massive, oh my god im shaking so much, get it in the net dad, get it in the net!"

It was a thumper!



Dad met us at the ramp when we got back and took it to his mates shop to get it weighted on his digital scales. Here's the printout, funny to see that if it was infact tomato and bacon sausages it would have been $132 worth



His day wasn't over though not long afterward he landed another cracker on his own strayline. We picked up the longline and thankfully it only had 1 snapper on it.

4 fish and I couldn't shut the lid on my chilli bin, 9am and we were on our way back in.



There was a fair amount off hooting and hollering on the way back. I couldnt hear it all over the motor noise but something along the lines of "I cant believe ive just caught a 20 pound snapper!"



Here is the 4 fish. Fom left to right on the chilli bin 16 Lb,15 Lb and 14 Lb.

Amazing!!

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Fantastic!

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Fantastic!

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bloody epic

Wow what a session!! Give the boy a pat on the back from me mate!! Cracker fish!

Looking forward to a few days at Ohope beach with the family and the surf set. Might even have a go at a flounder up the Ohiwa and even a crack at a kingi off the rocks at the western end of the beach.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Looking forward to a few days at Ohope beach with the family and the surf set. Might even have a go at a flounder up the Ohiwa and even a crack at a kingi off the rocks at the western end of the beach.

Hey @Gibo the family used to go to Ohope beach every year till 85 we then headed to the far north.
Used to get some good surf casting at that river mouth south of Ohope. Where I nearly stepped on a string ray the size of a mini while wading back and forward to cast. It left when the tired did Dad and I must have been missing it by feet.
We left because the trawlers used to come in at night and run up and down in front of the beach, in the morning there would be snapper carcasses all over the sand
But a great place for a family to Holiday hope you have a good time away. Tight lines

Kukuwai....squid bait?.... ...we use a variety of baits ,different poles just to see how the are biting and at what.... but squid,they all bite

Originally Posted by A330driver

Kukuwai....squid bait?.... ...we use a variety of baits ,different poles just to see how the are biting and at what.... but squid,they all bite

Totally agree, a variety of baits is good and there is always squid on the boat.

We were using whole pillies on our straylines yesterday. Just gota remember to give them time to eat it properly before engaging the drag

Down here we have a very healthy gurnard fishery in the bay and they are a desirable, tasty bycatch when targeting snapper but not big squid eaters.

These days when we are dropping long lines they always have some trevelly or salted mac along with squid on them.

These are the hooks that pick up the gurnard.

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

Totally agree, a variety of baits is good and there is always squid on the boat.

We were using whole pillies on our straylines yesterday. Just gota remember to give them time to eat it properly before engaging the drag

Down here we have a very healthy gurnard fishery in the bay and they are a desirable, tasty bycatch when targeting snapper but not big squid eaters.

These days when we are dropping long lines they always have some trevelly or salted mac along with squid on them.

These are the hooks that pick up the gurnard.

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I find the snapper seem to go off the squid after spawn too.
I never leave without pilchards.
Salted mackerel,squid,kahawai are my fave longline baits tho the sharks cannot resist squid

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I got out yesterday for some home schooling also.
A couple of other commitments ment we didnt get on the water and fishing till after 9am which wasnt ideal. 13m for shark city bugged out deeper to 24m going on some recent intel.....turned out shit....dunno why I listen to that git.

A few less sharks, Dad got a nice snapper around 15p on the strayline and we thought we were in with a chance but alas it was still pretty shit and the wind was picking up.
Finally I snagged a nice eater of around 10-12p on a slow jig @Shearer.



Then it really turned to shit and we headed in to pick up our longline full of spiky dogs and bitten off traces.

Ah well Dad got a feed and I did enjoy that fish on 10p gear tho the boy was a bit pissed he only caught sharks.

Probably go out in the morning with the kids and hopefully get onto some fish before the girl gets sea sick.


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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I got out yesterday for some home schooling also.
A couple of other commitments ment we didnt get on the water and fishing till after 9am which wasnt ideal. 13m for shark city bugged out deeper to 24m going on some recent intel.....turned out shit....dunno why I listen to that git.

A few less sharks, Dad got a nice snapper around 15p on the strayline and we thought we were in with a chance but alas it was still pretty shit and the wind was picking up.
Finally I snagged a nice eater of around 10-12p on a slow jig @Shearer.



Then it really turned to shit and we headed in to pick up our longline full of spiky dogs and bitten off traces.

Ah well Dad got a feed and I did enjoy that fish on 10p gear tho the boy was a bit pissed he only caught sharks.

Probably go out in the morning with the kids and hopefully get onto some fish before the girl gets sea sick.


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Nice fish VC, It is totally amazing they actually eat that metal stuff

I'm with you 100% - never leave home without pillies

Didn't have any bitten off traces yesterday but there was one of these !!!



Think I might need to replace a few hooks

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