Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by stingray

Righto will do better @Rushy ..but I can spell kingi, the season begins...ohh hell yes how good
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Your Kingfish is a lot longer than mine......................



( dont know why its defying gravity either....)

Originally Posted by Gibo

Spottiest one

Yep.
For me they are easy to pick out from my normal catch of greenbacks/yellow-bellied tho between those two I would have to research each time if asked as they are so similar.
The river flounder or black is a slightly different shape too which makes it stand out to me.

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Originally Posted by Allgood

Your Kingfish is a lot longer than mine......................

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( dont know why its defying gravity either....)

The tax man called

Originally Posted by Pengy

The tax man called

Yep, it was the biggest Great White I have ever seen in 45 years of fishing off the Kaipara, the last 12+ years working on a charter boat . Estimated length was 14-16 feet. Seen plenty of 8-12 foot ones, but this one was something else!!

My first thought was 'We need a bigger boat'............( The Charter boat is over 20m long and it felt small)

Originally Posted by Allgood

Yep, it was the biggest Great White I have ever seen in 45 years of fishing off the Kaipara, the last 12+ years working on a charter boat . Estimated length was 14-16 feet.

My fishing buddy saw a similar size fish in the Kaipara a few years ago. He has been fishing there for 25 years and is not the kind of guy that exaggerates.

Keep feeding it up your way ...so it bloody stays there ..I've got a summer of free diving to do!

That is a hell of a fish to be chomping through your kingi's! Adrenaline plus just large dash of great white! Now that's fishing!

Well this is just bloody bullshit.... happens every year around this time... water temps come up...whitebait and snapper come in close.....every afternoon at 2 or 3 pm it blows.
Yesterday after work would have been perfect, good wind and sea and perfect tides for a after work fish but alas I had to go out for tea.
Tonight looked doable, offshore breeze turning 8 knt onshore and dieing to zero at dusk.
What actually happened was offshore breeze, flat as sea with a ripple on top and wide open boat testing....best top speed yet.
Picked a spot as it turned onshore and for a moment considered putting a long line out but thought na it will be a prick to get in by myself if it does blow up....glad I never.

By the time I had burley and rods in the water it was a good 15knts and white cappy....got a gurnard and a kahawai in a matter of minutes as conditions worsened.
Must have been 20knt for a bit and tight steep wind chop built up as fast as I have ever seen it go from flat calm to shithouse.
I was sure the wind would drop as the sun set and I'm no scaredy cat but when you're taking waves over the bow at ankor its definitely time to bug out!
Got everything up and picked a set to motor up and retrieve ankor.
With that up I felt safe again so tightened up the hood on the Raincoat from under the seat and headed back beam onto the surf getting a facefull
In behind the bar it was still shit but fishable on the drift with motor idling in reverse with only a few waves over the back.
Birds everywhere, med size kahawai every drop spewing whitebait on the deck.... caught 7-8 of them bled and kept 5 for neighbor and come in.

Time I had it on the trailer the wind was dropping.
By the time I had it in the shed it was pretty good
Bloody spring weather.

Back into the safety of Monaco.



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Originally Posted by Gibo

They all look the same to me mate.....flat

Im amping for the long weekend. Booked a campsite and going to drag the caravan down to Thornton for some surfcasting

Mean, thorton is a rad spot. We spear the raus a bit.

Ill wave on the way past, we are hitting white island. Operation"get the girlfriend to shoot a massive kingi then laugh my arse off as it tows her around". Will harass a few snails and packies too I think, freezer is looking sad.

It's blowing like 40 thousand bastards here today. Ya right about the spring weather VC, just wonky as

Yep rough as guts up Waihau Bay so will have to do some top water fishing in the am.

Sat looking mean! Windyty on the blink ...ran out of $$ apparently ...Water temps were up but screaming southerly today undoing all the good. Crays should be just about ready to hunt ...pilchards with in the reach so snappers must be about as well as kings..long weekend ...stay safe folks and post a yarn!

Sunday I hope will be a cracker like today cause I’m going fishing tomorrow

Up early and out with the boy this morning,launched from mapua....only one other trailer in the carpark.
Deployed a longline in close then burlyed up, mini me got a gurnard before I could even get my gear in the water.
Counted 20 boats in our area!
There was a few fish caught early on but we were definitely saved by the longline today..we sat threw the high tide slack water for a couple of hours of no bites at all hoping for a run as the tide moved back out.....my patience run out before the fishes did.
4 good snapper rangeing 7-12pound
15ish good sized gurnard
10 or so small Kahawai mostly recycled as bait.
eleventy million bloody sand sharks.
Surprisingly no spiky dogs at all!

Took some photos but Tapatalk are capatalist pigs and I cant post them......will see what I can do.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

eleventy million bloody sand sharks

We thank you for your service removing these nasty smiling sharkys from our bay

Originally Posted by mikee

We thank you for your service removing these nasty smiling sharkys from our bay

Most of them went back unharmed....except the one I caught that had my hook from 5min earlier in his jaw as well as the one I pulled him in on....unfortunatly he didnt survive the surgery