Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by stingray

What temp is the water? We have between 17 and 19 degrees, plankton down to 30 ft thick as...but zero bait fish! No gannets no dolphins stuff all penguins, saw two rat kings at okuri diving at 60 ft. just after New Years , beautiful blue water out in the open just a serious lack of bait and predators. A strange old season indeed!

Its a balmy 16.6 deg today , Will peak in feb @ 17 deg . They will be out there , its just I gave up on the blue water , was 11 k out and still was a ways off .

Originally Posted by stingray

What temp is the water? We have between 17 and 19 degrees, plankton down to 30 ft thick as...but zero bait fish! No gannets no dolphins stuff all penguins, saw two rat kings at okuri diving at 60 ft. just after New Years , beautiful blue water out in the open just a serious lack of bait and predators. A strange old season indeed!

Yes indeed.
Went over the western side of the bay yesterday with @gadgetman and one of the gadgetets and couldnt even catch a cold.

Rig net to the rescue this morning.







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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Yes indeed.
Went over the western side of the bay yesterday with @gadgetman and one of the gadgetets and couldnt even catch a cold.

Rig net to the rescue this morning.







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It sure is an odd season, we had to do major miles when I took my folks out and in the end were 'saved by the long line" even though the first 3 sets resulted in zero fish and all baits came back untouched, 4th set got a small Kingi @73cms and the last 2 managed to get a few snaps.

BUT I have never up till then set each of my long lines more than once per outing (i have 2). The was nothing on the sounder at all over most of the bay. Water temp on Kina side was 18.5 and on the Delaware side 17.4 (we did better over this side)

Originally Posted by mikee

It sure is an odd season, we had to do major miles when I took my folks out and in the end were 'saved by the long line" even though the first 3 sets resulted in zero fish and all baits came back untouched, 4th set got a small Kingi @73cms and the last 2 managed to get a few snaps.

BUT I have never up till then set each of my long lines more than once per outing (i have 2). The was nothing on the sounder at all over most of the bay. Water temp on Kina side was 18.5 and on the Delaware side 17.4 (we did better over this side)

I wonder if everything is in the sounds this season?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I wonder if everything is in the sounds this season?

well I wonder if its all hiding somewhere from the bloody wind.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Yes indeed.
Went over the western side of the bay yesterday with @gadgetman and one of the gadgetets and couldnt even catch a cold.

Rig net to the rescue this morning.







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Big thanks to @veitnamcam for taking the rookies out to wet the lines. I even unwrapped another rod that had been sitting round for about 15 years. Another one of those really good deals that was too good to pass up that I might use one day. Gadgette#3 really enjoyed herself too, but was pretty quiet on the way home, she won't take much rocking tonight. Had a really great time.

I smelt a bit of a rat when Mrs VC quietly put down the knife and stepped back. I look left to see VC wielding the phone to take a pic. Learned a heap off Mrs VC who did the vast majority of the skinning and filleting while fumble fingers here hacked at a few fish. The positive side of my fish hacking is that it can only get better, 'cause sure as eggs it can't possibly get any worse.

We'll be doing much the same for dinner. A couple of kilograms of fish all bagged up and mostly freezing at the moment. A few doses are already off to the mother-in-law.

interested if anyone is catching any coastal kingfish north of Auckland?

have been out for a few spear dives out of Leigh harbour over the past week or so and finding the usual spots very barren of the right fish life. basically no yellowtail mackerel baitfish around and not a single kingy seen. some people saying we are having a late season but normally Oct-Dec are the best months so we should be well and truly past those water temps

Originally Posted by LOC

interested if anyone is catching any coastal kingfish north of Auckland?

have been out for a few spear dives out of Leigh harbour over the past week or so and finding the usual spots very barren of the right fish life. basically no yellowtail mackerel baitfish around and not a single kingy seen. some people saying we are having a late season but normally Oct-Dec are the best months so we should be well and truly past those water temps

All the yellow macks gone?

All the Marlin and Yellow fin have eaten the baitfish

wish that was the case pengy. maybe a few of your pals booked a xmas holiday up this way to get out of the antarctic weather

I was half serious. The game fishing up North is off to a real humdinger with more Tuna and big Blues than I can recall for this early.

I'll let you know tomorrow night, out to 'the garden patch' tomorrow but will be stopping at a spot closer to shore which usually holds big numbers of kingis

@gadgetman I found them.
9snaps over 600mm after work.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

@gadgetman I found them.
9snaps over 600mm after work.

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Any photos?


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Originally Posted by sambnz

Any photos?


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Only on mates ifone which wont play nice with my samsung.

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