Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

@veitnamcam hey mate those snaps turned up yet ? my bro sent me a pic yesterday from out of wellys ..good haul of snapper he recons they are just turning up.

Yep.....been chasing kings instead of late tho.

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Pretty happy wee fella.
First fish ever



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Any of you Gurnard Pro's like to give a dumb ex Eel catcher a tip
What is best rig/setup
What depth and ground etc
I in the "inner" Pelorus Sound

Prob a rig that is there when a stupid snapper drifts past too

Thanks in advance

I use small jigs now for Gurnard (like the Shimano bottom ship style) on the very rare occasion I go fishing now or just last trip tiny 30gm orange micro jigs on 5lb braid proved very good.

On long line I use salted mackeral or salted plchards for bait and you seem to get a better hit rate for gurnard. Maybe that on a ledger rig bottom hook for snapper.

Harvester crews are getting a few snapper in the inner sounds now so nearly on your door step

Originally Posted by kukuwai

Pretty happy wee fella.
First fish ever



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that is just AWESOME

Originally Posted by mikee

I use small jigs now for Gurnard (like the Shimano bottom ship style) on the very rare occasion I go fishing now or just last trip tiny 30gm orange micro jigs on 5lb braid proved very good.

On long line I use salted mackeral or salted plchards for bait and you seem to get a better hit rate for gurnard. Maybe that on a ledger rig bottom hook for snapper.

Harvester crews are getting a few snapper in the inner sounds now so nearly on your door step

I had Tim on Pelorus Image pull up out front 2 days ago to take possession of his 4th pair of Talan Boots :-)
Some big Snapper too - been caught
I fallen for these Gurnard though - beautiful fish
Got some out near Maude Island then my capstan burnt out and no other anchor option - just hoped to get it set up right for close in results

Had the harbour master come alongside us today while we were fishing.

He had a couple of guys from maritime NZ on board. They wanted to check our life jackets, and that we had two forms of communication.

Told us it was part of 'boat safety' week.
Good to see really

Even gave us a free cell phone dry bag...


@Sarvo +1 for mikee's salted mac however travelly also seems to be a favourite bait of the gurnard. They are not that keen on squid !!

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

Had the harbour master come alongside us today while we were fishing.

He had a couple of guys from maritime NZ on board. They wanted to check our life jackets, and that we had two forms of communication.

Told us it was part of 'boat safety' week.
Good to see really

Even gave us a free cell phone dry bag...


@Sarvo +1 for mikee's salted mac however travelly also seems to be a favourite bait of the gurnard. They are not that keen on squid !!

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Yes - I had heard they not keen on Squid

What is the Law or Reg (I cannot see how there can be a Law without boat licences) regarding life jackets on your own boat.
I was told by neighbor - under 6m length - compulsory to wear and over voluntarily ??

Originally Posted by Sarvo

under 6m length - compulsory to wear and over voluntarily ??

I believe this is correct.

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Originally Posted by Sarvo

Any of you Gurnard Pro's like to give a dumb ex Eel catcher a tip
What is best rig/setup
What depth and ground etc
I in the "inner" Pelorus Sound

Prob a rig that is there when a stupid snapper drifts past too

Thanks in advance

I like to target banks or where bottom type switches from mud to sand. So rather than sitting in the middle of a big bay Ill fish the edge of a bay where it just starts to shallow up they seem to like these areas.
Baits as above salted mackerel or bonito or trevally.
Rigs they are bottom feeders but will come up a bit to take say the top hook on a flasher rig.

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Life jackets Taupo, must be on BEFORE you start your motor!

Great couple of days away with my Dad and uncle in golden bay and the west coast.
West coast cod fishing was rather disappointing after how much it had been talked up to me over the years however we got a good feed of fish and a fair variety.



Looking at the paterau river from the paterau shoal.



Golden bay turned it on this morning with 10 fat snaps and tenish nice gurnard in barely 30min and we headed in not wanting or needing anymore fish to fillet.





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That snapper could be related to me VC. Those juju lips and flat nose look very familiar.

Snapper were thick in Tasman bay on saturday. Went out in mates boat from cable bay and set one set line then went for a fish. Caught 9 good snapper on the rods, all between 6-8lb in 30m mark.
Got a kingfish at 73cm,just under legal and four gurnard, one greyboy, couple of barracouta, couple of big mackrel. Lost 3 other snapper as well as getting busted off on two other fish.
The setline had one snapper, 5 gurnard, couple big kawhawai and some spiky dogfish.
Another 2 boats fishing the 30m mark got 17 snapper on a setline , and one got 8, with a couple 10lbers on rods

Epic weekend of weather.Shot down to Durvile to dive a favourite I call triple rock..havnt being here in a couple of years ..not a bloody thing all the good holes were empty.. Swam out futher good visit found a different rock which Im calling the man hole because that's what is looks like two entrances and a huge split over the top... It was choked with very very good bugs! Took 5 had silted up badly so safety first exited the second entrance. No snapper on hook line no spikes either so pretty much a draw, handful of cod then the heat turned on so we headed home.
Daughter came down so out this morning slayed another feed of cod a few carrots from the hook line (cheers VC) for your knowledge. Head in clean up pack up home.