Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Dad txt me up Thursday " wanna go fishing sat? Gotta burn some fuel before it all goes stale" Yep I was keen and said " How bout we take a diver?"
He was bloody keen for that so got a hold of @stingray and of course he was keen as always.

Forcast slowly worsened friday and friday night to not so flash sat morning......well it was alright but not ideal for what I had planned, we tucked up in virtually the only spot out of the wind and had a fish....very sharky.....drifted a patch of sign and quickly got our limit of blues.

Up to secret spot one and Joe was quickly back up with one smaller cray...off to spot two dropped him in and drifted off setting a long line....back up with another cray and a bloody decent butterfish!
How the hell did ya catch that with no spear? Im just that good mate!

Spot three payed dividends and that was the diving done.



Bit slack on the photos but limit cod and crays and a few gurnards sharks and a butter.

Cheers Joe Dad is stoked !

Set netting is overrated anyway
Got these last week , did 2 drags for 12 then hopped in the raft for a play in some new ground that turned out to be a flop so did one last drag toward the truck & got 25 ! , let the smaller ones go but still ended up with plenty.

Out with VC and his Da ..wind swell tide fighting each other made for a messy run .. got to southern end of Durville ..fishing was slow good slow ...diving saw two honest cracks filled with a heap of small crays ...did surface intervile ..pulled couple of carrots..dropped in on VCs rock ...stacked with berries females..scratched around outside pulled a couple of smalls and finally a good buck. No diving showed in my performance .Great day out with some great bloke company . Good sign off the bottom / mid water but nothing on the chew ..

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

Set netting is overrated anyway
Got these last week , did 2 drags for 12 then hopped in the raft for a play in some new ground that turned out to be a flop so did one last drag toward the truck & got 25 ! , let the smaller ones go but still ended up with plenty.
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Thats bloody good going dragnetting!
Estuary or beach for drags?

@Boaraxa any tips , depth ,time of tide , slow drag etc .. just asking for basic advice. Cheers .. pm.if you prefer.
@VC glad your dad enjoyed himself,it was a bloody great day..snaps cannot be far away

I mostly drag estuaries , I don’t like to get too deep that’s how you loose nets & get into strife..did that once so now I play it safe & no my spots pretty well , Mostly use a 20m net .

Thank you for info gives us a starting point .

Well i put the net back in this morning.

Only 1 flounder today.

However just after we finished picking it up, the oldest boy say "what do these guys want dad"?

Looked up to see two fellas in wet suits approaching from the mud flats, they had to swim a back channel to get to where we were.

Turns out they had been drag netting in another channel and got their net stuck. Ended up having to abandon it, reckon they will go back at low tonight and retrieve it.

In the meantime the tide had come in and they were worried about swimming the channel so were very happy to receive a ride back to the launching point.


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I put the net in this morning too, lots of nets about this side.....old bloke set same area was just coming in as I was going out to pickup.
He only got one.
Guy launching as I had come in set right next to me effectively blocking the channel ffs.

Anyway I got weed lots of weed and 5 good ones.

Flounder dog on point.

Kids and a dog and dad time how bloody good does it get. You are a luck man!

I've been waiting a while to comment on this thread.......Fu*K you nelson boys......all of you out there doing it!
I managed to get the family out yesterday, just up to Delaware .....12 good cod and the look on the kids faces is priceless. Not to mention the dolphins.

Saturday fishing ....story to follow ...hope its a good one

Get into it Joe. We will be at Kaiuma hopefully burning gorse.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Get into it Joe. We will be at Kaiuma hopefully burning gorse.

Dont smoke the neighbour out again :-)))
Fishing crap - not bad to put a flattie net in there though - hopeless out from of us now

Originally Posted by Sarvo

Dont smoke the neighbour out again :-)))
Fishing crap - not bad to put a flattie net in there though - hopeless out from of us now

The fish shouldn't be too far away.