Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Wee after work mission back in my "good" spot.....bad weather lately has stirred up a lot of weed/leaves/sticks/plastic but somehow I still managed to get 8 in that mess of a net.



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Interestingly perhaps the plastic I catch is very rarely a recently banned "single use bag" with handles, most common is food wrappers, pie wrappers, chocolate bar wrappers, plastic wrappers off of bottles and occasionally a bottle.

Out in the pouring rain and dark this morning to catch up with @stingray and give the frypan a run. Over the last hill into the bay the rain eased back from torrential to look light and I breathed a sigh of relief.
Running a bit late due to the weather for once Joe was waiting for me instead of the other way round.
Out with into a rolly sea I wanted to try target gurnard....that was a dismal failure but we got our limit of 2 blue cod each in no time so we buggered off to try catch something else and Joe succeeded!.


We tried a few different spots here and there and just could not get away from undersize cod so headed closer to home and Joes carrot patch.
It was busy fishing with sharks ,cod both legal and undersized, gurnard and big fat kahawai.

Weather was quite nice by now but we had a good catch and it was time to head home.



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Great day out with VC.. we were hunting winter terakie ...along the edges of reefs . Tried a lot of foul ground a lot of good turf for cray hunting marked. ..weather eased as the day ran through ...very fishy day ..myself landing a wareho? First ever, in the same place VC got a fat wee brim ( undersized snapper) mid winter 13 degrees water temp ...very fishy ..we ran onto a handy bay hooked small carrots and spinies ..up the coast ..slack water to a out going tide ...I caught double headers of spinies and bloody VC hooked up on double headers of carrots ..then a few solid 3-4 ft grey boys .. fat as kawahia up and down the coast kept a couple for smoker ...carrot patch ran dry checked the burley to find some barstard had chewed the top out of it .. rope wooden stopper the lot ...4 th trip out and mangled ...not ideal!

After at least 5 inchs of ran supprised to have fishing this good? Water cleaner than expected ...diving next weekend a possibility!

What is that? Blue warehou? I thought I knew my fish, but had to look that one up.

Originally Posted by MB

What is that? Blue warehou? I thought I knew my fish, but had to look that one up.

Pretty sure it was a Blue.....definitely didnt eat like a white.

What a weekend ....down Okiwi Friday night ...up well not quite VC o'clock and out down the coast great weather window so past all our usasual haunts ..flat arse with a lazy swell ..boat maxed out 4 souls and 3 dive sets ...and extra fuel...had some intel on a hot spot ..got there ...hooked into some very solid cod ..none of the promised fish so went out wide ..50 meters no tide and sharks so went fitter down to 100 meters ..bit of current and bigger sharks ...boats all doing the same moving and searching for fish and a bite ...so fuck it back to 1st spot to pick up last couple of cod ...got there and Keeley my lass is getting weird bites but not hooking up...VC the cunning soul drops her rig back to a 3/0 hook and she's in ...terakhie ...and small to keeper brim..so a re rig by the crew and down with the burley..a solid couple hours of fishing on light gear saw smiles all round ...burley ran out and so did the tide and the bite ...ran home with a following swell saw us filleting and cleaning into the dark.

Smashed a feed of fresh as fish and watched the footy on poor man tv ...Sunday saw me with beer belly and cautious farts so VC took my lad out for a dive ...they hit my lads faviuorte free dive rock bagged a couple , then tanked up and VC dropped Blake on a new crack ...smiles all round as he picked up a couple of small bucks on the outside of a loaded up cave ..home cleaned up and away home .

Wicked weekend great company laughter bullshit and fishing ..how good a life we live. Thanks VC for keeping the young bloke safe and your efforts in the kitchen and on the boat . Cheers Joe

Originally Posted by stingray

Wicked weekend great company laughter bullshit and fishing ..how good a life we live. Thanks VC for keeping the young bloke safe and your efforts in the kitchen and on the boat . Cheers Joe

A cracker weekend thanks Joe always good to get down there and always good to try new turf.




Im glad we didn't put another burly down!




This morning.





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.. F....k the possums I'm going fishing, jealous of your guys bin. Love Tarakihi. Well done fullas.

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thanks

You need a medal Cam for being able spend weekend fishing with Stingray whilst on dry July . Better men would have failed

Originally Posted by Munsey

You need a medal Cam for being able spend weekend fishing with Stingray whilst on dry July . Better men would have failed

It wasnt bloody easy I can tell you!

Thanks VC for sharing the photos. Good to see a few flounder around over the winter months. I have caught a few flounder around those parts

Headed out this arvo and put a little net out....it was glassy but I was fairly sure I would get a wet arse on pick up.



Only got 2 both river flounder or "blacks" sure sign it is both too cold and too much fresh water in the estuary for good catches of the yellowbelly and green backs.



And yes I got a wet arse.....I think of the irony everytime I am washing a boat in the pissing rain

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