Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by MB

My first kingfish on the spear. I'll save you all the details, but it was a lucky encounter and an epic battle followed. Fish nearly got away a few times, tangled in kelp and I nearly drowned! Definitely amateur hour underwater! Also caught a crayfish, so a great day all round.

Awesome man. The old Kings start getting pretty elusive on the spear around this time. They sure put up a fight. Wait till your on the end of a 20keg plus model. My first king I got so tangled in my line, it was a bloody palava.

Well looks like my floundering days are over Thanks to Sage and Nash.
Thinking about converting Tinny Punt into a flounder spotlighting gunship but would need keen/reliable crew.
Anyone want to buy a flounder boat?

Well my new net works good Shame I won't have long left to use it.

These two guys are going to miss the shit out of it !!!



Not to mention their old man

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Teach them to fish for them with a line, the smallest hook you can find and a sweet corn kernel for bait. A can of cream style sweet corn for burly. That’d be fun as for the young one.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Teach them to fish for them with a line, the smallest hook you can find and a sweet corn kernel for bait. A can of cream style sweet corn for burly. That’d be fun as for the young one.

I just mentioned that to him Rushy. Hes pretty keen. "can you actually do that dad? really dad do they actually eat corn?"

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

I just mentioned that to him Rushy. Hes pretty keen. "can you actually do that dad? really dad do they actually eat corn?"

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Mate tell him the old man on the forum says yes the eat canned corn and also canned peas. Had hours of fun doing it as a young fella up the top of the top end of the Whangamata harbour as the tide turned and was coming in if I am remembering correctly) A can of whole kernel (Bait) and another can of cream style (Burly) is a cheap way of fishing as a kid. We used light line and a small sprat hook with no sinker ( so it followed the burley). Doesn’t need to be flash as a hand line will do but a kids light sprat rod is good as well.

Well naturally I was out this morning, using my brand new slung 6.5 inch mesh net.
A bit of inclement weather sure puts off most of the punters.
The only other netter about today is a local who keeps a bloody close eye on me and my catches from his lounge.
He said Im only pretty new at this because I have only been netting this estuary and looking at it out of my window for the last 45 years but I have never seen any Dolphins in here in that time.
Anyway he got 20 running 5.5"mesh and I got six running 6.5" mesh...
The bigger fish have gone deep to spawn.

You and me both bro, might even give it another go tomorrow

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Bit bloody windy this morning and a tad wet.


I was the only one out on this side, got 7 and dropped a couple more out of the net.

Nice one Cam, I got none !!

Suspected that might be the case tho as when i went to pick it up someone had set a 60m net about 100m in front of my net. WTF??!!

Dad came along and i won't repeat what he had to say about it. Lucky for the owners of that net we didn't see them or dad would have had a piece of there hide !!

The cheek of some people is hard to fathom !

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

Nice one Cam, I got none !!

Suspected that might be the case tho as when i went to pick it up someone had set a 60m net about 100m in front of my net. WTF??!!

Dad came along and i won't repeat what he had to say about it. Lucky for the owners of that net we didn't see them or dad would have had a piece of there hide !!

The cheek of some people is hard to fathom !

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Yea that happens here too when it is busy.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Well looks like my floundering days are over Thanks to Sage and Nash.
Thinking about converting Tinny Punt into a flounder spotlighting gunship but would need keen/reliable crew.
Anyone want to buy a flounder boat?

i could be keen on doing some flounder spearing from gunship

Out with the cod masters this morning after a leisurely start, nice weather and I busyed myself with keeping all the smaller cod away from the other rods and other important dutys.




Good feed of Cod and Carrot obtained we headed for n for a nice early clean up.

Always Awesome Cheers Joe and Kin.

Cheers VC for showing us how winter hook lining is done, and not slay 25 sharks , Really great to see brim ( small they were) but in tasman bay in the winter. As you say we now have a resident population in the bay, long may they grow into a solid biomass.

Cod 34- 37cm were stuffed full of krill ( squat lobster ), nothing on the surface were we normally see them (the krill) so interesting to note that they are about on the bottom. Marked up a reef for a dive next chance I get. Nice to wet a line and enjoy company of wonderful folks.

Out straight afetr work this evening.....mirror flat makes it hard to see the banks and channels in the dark.



One large stingray unfortunately but I was still very happy with 19 good sized flounder and one kahawai.

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Majority of them have been distributed around a nearby retirement village.