Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

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Originally Posted by Rushy

Are they blue and pink Mao Mao (spelling)?[/QUOTE @Rushy yep, some of the most underrated eating fish in nz. Blue Mao Mao, especially when they get to this sort of size are crazy good. Very high fat content giving them a buttery flavour. The biggest Mao Mao caught was 1.6kg. Everything is huge out there.
@Dorkus have you dived white before? Such an epic spot. Spent the rest of the dive searching for goldies, no luck although it's kinda hard hitting 20m in a screaming current

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Nah never dived white, super keen to though. Kinda like the kings in terms of epicness I would imagine... Maybe slightly less epic if you have to go to 20+ for the goldies - I shot one from the surface last time I was at the kings.

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Originally Posted by Nick-D

Nah never dived white, super keen to though. Kinda like the kings in terms of epicness I would imagine... Maybe slightly less epic if you have to go to 20+ for the goldies - I shot one from the surface last time I was at the kings.

Yeah man. Not quite as good as the Kings I don't think but still pretty epic. I used to think pinkies were a rare treat until I dived white haha

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Those are some very nice looking blue mao mao. Great eating
I ate a few when I lived on the Barrier for a few months. Did feel a bit stink spearing them as they would follow me around when I was snorkelling, but if I didn't get anything else I would turn around and grab dinner.

Do we get them down here or not quite temperate enough?.....I can only dive to the bottom if my moobs are above water when I am standing on it.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I can only dive to the bottom if my moobs are above water when I am standing on it.

Spare a thought for a former athlete that now has the water displacement capabilities of an ocean liner. If I were to dive head first into a pool these days I have good reason to believe that my pecker would not get wet before I reversed thrust and shot back out of the pool like a Polaris missile.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Spare a thought for a former athlete that now has the water displacement capabilities of an ocean liner. If I were to dive head first into a pool these days I have good reason to believe that my pecker would not get wet before I reversed thrust and shot back out of the pool like a Polaris missile.

Yes we both have a lot of hot air.

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We get blue Mao Mao over summer tiny mouths proberbly spend hours chewing burley, whilst we feed the wee buggers ! Never seen anything of serious size 20 - 25 cms max!

Originally Posted by rugerman

Those are some very nice looking blue mao mao. Great eating
I ate a few when I lived on the Barrier for a few months. Did feel a bit stink spearing them as they would follow me around when I was snorkelling, but if I didn't get anything else I would turn around and grab dinner.

Yeah the bigger ones are a bit more clued up, pretty selective, certainly no shortage of them out there. Pinkies are a good fish to hunt, they head deeper when you drop on them so you have to plan your drop properly to push them into the rocks. Even then you often end up down around 15-20m chasing them

Yeah Stingy they do have pretty small mouths. I've caught them on a small Sabiki rig on the rod but speared most of them.
I'm surprised you get them that far south. I've never caught them around Auckland, only around the Barrier but that might just be a numbers game

Out this arvo with a brand new re slung short net..... against my better judgement I set on a outgoing tide......a number of very short sets and net clearing untangling untill I found a spot that would work and promptly caught a Stingray and had to cut the bloody thing out of my brand new mesh!
Got my 20 but it was hard work.



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Quick session out off White yesterday. Generally hard work but these two made the bin look better. Bluenose was in 485m of water, thank god for the elec reels..

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Originally Posted by Smiddy

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You in the Sounds ??

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Out this arvo with a brand new re slung short net..... against my better judgement I set on a outgoing tide......a number of very short sets and net clearing untangling untill I found a spot that would work and promptly caught a Stingray and had to cut the bloody thing out of my brand new mesh!
Got my 20 but it was hard work.



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Got your 20 what? Anchors?

Originally Posted by Dorkus

Got your 20 what? Anchors?

Flounder of course!
I thought that more picturesque than yet another photo of the bottom of the Dingy and flounder.

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