Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

West coast has been flat for a few days allowing things to settle. So shot out for a dive and fish, Handy festive supplies.

Merry christmas fellas



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Originally Posted by Got-ya

West coast has been flat for a few days allowing things to settle. So shot out for a dive and fish, Handy festive supplies.


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Reds with the reds ..perfect

Originally Posted by kukuwai

Merry christmas fellas



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Merry Xmas
That’s a horse what a fish to catch with the young fella

Out of okiwi up to spot keith ,Aaron and I got pannies ..this time larger snaps showed up ..just one at a time , burnt 6kg of burley but when they bit ..wow freight trains ..running line in angry bursts..biggest 15 lbs 70cms not a great condition fish hungry and powerful..blue cod and carrots filled the gaps..young folk dived new turf scratched around plenty of caves cracks and holes and weed but very few bugs

Originally Posted by stingray

Out of okiwi up to spot keith ,Aaron and I got pannies ..this time larger snaps showed up ..just one at a time , burnt 6kg of burley but when they bit ..wow freight trains ..running line in angry bursts..biggest 15 lbs 70cms not a great condition fish hungry and powerful..blue cod and carrots filled the gaps..young folk dived new turf scratched around plenty of caves cracks and holes and weed but very few bugs
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Well done....gotta love kids showing up their old man.������

Yip she’s a slayer ...bashed the carrots hard today down at big cod rock ..was chucking back sizeable fish, keeping 10 carrots Xxl fish ...then rang to tell me about it ...ma n da sorted a feed of blues ..glad I’m at work ...imagine being amongst that ...would have been painful! ..

.keels wants to know if your coming ...she knows a good spot .if your keen ......dear god you’ve created a monster VC ...shame on you

Slow fishing on the last day of 2020. Dinner party saved by a very welcome john dory at 2.6kg!

A horse of a JD

Good few hours out from raglan today


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Epic new year's day ...talked VC into coming down earlier than stupid o'clock...poor barstard was up way to early...packed boat night before..up and down to ramp to float the boat before it became impossible.

Parked truck ..got back to the bost to find VC and jrVC chucking in their gear ..happy new year ...down to pass to chase kings ....Whales ..in current basin ...oil calm spent an hour whale watching...fished pass to much current

Off to other spots plus one more whale watch ..saw a school of kings gulping krill..no joy on the jigs ...got to our hunting ground ..bombed down a couple of long lines ..kings under the boat..mild panic from me ...hooked a keeper ..put it back e expecting more joy ...nope that was that..

Went deep chasing snaps ..1st line down... trying to rig up a stray line ..bang we were on ...half grown snaps....carrots came on the chew ..boated a good dozen ..the VC hooks a screamer ...looks good pulling line and VC working it hard ...gone pulled the hook ..wind kicked up so pulled the hook lines ..one wee tangle .couple of snaps gumboots and grey boys ..

Gave a bloke and family a hand to get home..ended the day with a quick dive and a couple of crays ...many hands filleting fish ..perfect ..happy new year

The codfather.

Whales


Eating this stuff.





Just awesome.
Couldn't have had a better start to the year.

Towing???

Yeah poor bugger main motor packed a sad ..I'm picking the power coil ..then excillary gave trouble as well ..just not his day

Nice Cod
I went out yesterday. Sorry no pics as it was first time in more than a year, and since hitting the bar on the way in so I was a bit twitchy to cover all my bases 20 times over.
Left the ramp at 9.30 ( 12pm high) was a bit choppy on the way out but calmed down once out there and the breeze dropped off. Anchored up in 20m and burlyied up a storm. Not even a bite for 1.5hrs and watched as others moved off out into deeper water and puttered around the place. Then the fish came onto the bite just after high. Ended up with 6 Gurnard, a Kahawai and lost a 5lb travelly at the boat ( note to self give my mate a few pointers with the net). Anywho went to come in and oh joy motor wont start, and after a few cranks the battery was flat ( fully charged before I left). Looks like my new big sounder sucks the power big time. I used to leave the little garmin on while I fished but will now be turning off the Raymarine while I'm anchored. Lucky I took a jump start power pack out with me or I would have had to call up a someone to give me a boost.
I'm guessing that although the motor cranked over for a few times, the because the battery was so low I might not have been getting a good spark ?. Despite that it was a good day on the drink and after having a chat to a couple of guys on the ramp, it seems a few were not having any more luck out wide. I will stick with my anchor up and burly technique since it has worked every time so far.