Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Out early this am with @stingray to try some deeper water.
Windy ty looked a bit average but I hoped for the best.
Out into the blackness she was well sloppy with white bits on top and we turned back into the shelter of cable bay.
We entertained ourselves for a couple of hours by catcheing many small snapper and a few small trevs while tangling ourselves up in the burly and anckor ropes as the boat swung round and round in circles in the wind and eating some sandwiches.
Certainly lots of juvenile snapper in the shallows of Tasman bay at the moment which can only be a good sign for the future.

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I second all of that

We were gunna go out 30m off the islands but ended up in 10m and it was loaded with little snaps.

Boys loved it.



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Dropped a buggered little net out this morning with the boy and the dog for hopefully a few flounder.
Dad came in for the pickup which of course jinxed it....2 big rays had tied it up and we only got 5 flounder.
Took Dad for a tiki tour as tho I could remember grandads batch on best island I couldn't remember were it was or which one it was.
Dad picked it out straight away and named all the owners of the ones that were there 40 plus years ago.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

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Had a good day yesterday.
Anyone keen on marlin, Kawhia and Raglan are humming. 100 to 120 meters is red hot.Attachment 130715

Awesome!

wow that is a big fishy thing

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

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Is that a Remora behind the gills??

Awesome catch

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Had recently completed reslinging my short flounder net and got it out this afternoons low tide.


Picked up a short time later with my Son, A third of the net was still not covered by water yet so only half of it was fishing and I got 25 good size ones and no rays!
What a difference a net without massive holes in it makes ����

You derserved a large slice of good luck after your and the Young blokes efforts at Okiwi, Ma n Da still singing your praises! Thanks again VC

3 generations fish this morning with my Dad and my Son.
One of those mornings where everything just goes right

We were on the water with a longline deployed and anchored up with 2x burly pots deployed and baits in the water just after 6am.

Nothing happened at all for the first 15 min or so then my strayline ticked out......then ran....then nothing......fuck,do I check my bait? Na il give it a couple mins then off she goes and give it a wind and connect. Nice 8p snapper to start off. Usually the boy always gets the first one but he catches up later.


A couple min later Dad is on,the boy is on and I am winding up lines.
the next hour or so is flat out winding up lines, netting fish, fish flapping on deck while other fish are being fought....truely epic rod fishing for snapper.
Only one tangle up which is amazing with Dads habit of catching fish in the rod holder and I sorted it quick with a knife to avoid losing the fish(the other rod was his anyway)

Son got the biggest fish of the day on the rods at 16 pound on @rambo-6mmrem little reel and 8p braid.
Chilly bin looking full already with 16 snapper in it we called it and picked up the longline.


One really really really big snapper and freshly caught.....sorry I havent got a photo or a weight as we wanted to get it back in the water asap but suffice to say it was easily over 25p probably more like 30. From reasonably shallow water and freshly caught he powered away no problem after a min by the boat to get his breath back.
unfortunatly this 19pounder was not as feisty and despite plenty of time trying to get him to go he had to come home....none of it will be wasted.




Was just one of those epic mornings dreams are made of

Originally Posted by stingray

You derserved a large slice of good luck after your and the Young blokes efforts at Okiwi, Ma n Da still singing your praises! Thanks again VC

Litterally the least we could do.

Oh and amazingly there was no bycatch at all, everything we caught was target species!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

3 generations fish this morning with my Dad and my Son.
One of those mornings where everything just goes right

We were on the water with a longline deployed and anchored up with 2x burly pots deployed and baits in the water just after 6am.

Nothing happened at all for the first 15 min or so then my strayline ticked out......then ran....then nothing......fuck,do I check my bait? Na il give it a couple mins then off she goes and give it a wind and connect. Nice 8p snapper to start off. Usually the boy always gets the first one but he catches up later.
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A couple min later Dad is on,the boy is on and I am winding up lines.
the next hour or so is flat out winding up lines, netting fish, fish flapping on deck while other fish are being fought....truely epic rod fishing for snapper.
Only one tangle up which is amazing with Dads habit of catching fish in the rod holder and I sorted it quick with a knife to avoid losing the fish(the other rod was his anyway)

Son got the biggest fish of the day on the rods at 16 pound on @rambo-6mmrem little reel and 8p braid.
Chilly bin looking full already with 16 snapper in it we called it and picked up the longline.
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One really really really big snapper and freshly caught.....sorry I havent got a photo or a weight as we wanted to get it back in the water asap but suffice to say it was easily over 25p probably more like 30. From reasonably shallow water and freshly caught he powered away no problem after a min by the boat to get his breath back.
unfortunatly this 19pounder was not as feisty and despite plenty of time trying to get him to go he had to come home....none of it will be wasted.Attachment 131326

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Was just one of those epic mornings dreams are made of

Bloody awesome.

Well done Cam...mean fish

Gotta love that 3 generation fishing too ah

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Nice one, looks like one epic day of fishing. Great for the young fella to have awesome memories like that.
And go the might flounder dog

An awesome day out, Your lad looked pretty chuffed with himself this afternoon when I called in.