Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by MightyBoosh

Fishing was too good today. 12 fish in 12 casts. Started fishing at 6am, finished at 7am. 10 fish released (shallow water), 2 kept. I even resorted to trolling to try and not catch a snapper, but that didn't work! A lot of effort for 1 hour of fishing!

That's awesome. Snapper on a bibbed minnow.

That's one hell of a John Dory @Shearer. Well done. One of my preferred eating fish.

Question....which one is the John Dory....

Originally Posted by BeeMan

That's one hell of a John Dory @Shearer. Well done. One of my preferred eating fish.

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

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

Originally Posted by Shearer

One for @stingray.
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Off Delaware today.

Wow ...now your going to tell me it was lure caught eh ! simply a fantastic fish ..very well done !

Originally Posted by stingray

Wow ...now your going to tell me it was lure caught eh ! simply a fantastic fish ..very well done !

Haha. No, not a lure but another technique I have mentioned before. I can't take any of the credit for catching it though. I wasn't even on the boat.

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

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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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.

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