Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by gimp

16-17 degrees off Hoki and I got tubes. Must be different behaviour in the bay compared to off here?

I believe they come up the coast and roll into the bay so if your getting them hopefully it won't be long before some show up here

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I'd heard they come down the coast - they show up in Westport then Grey then here

All a mystery to me

Originally Posted by gimp

I'd heard they come down the coast - they show up in Westport then Grey then here

All a mystery to me

I'm no expert either, but i love catching them

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Great fun. A different fight to a kingi or a KY.

All I know, is blue water and 18 degrees.... knock em and bleed em straight away ...chuck them in a salt ice slurry more ice the better. They run hot and spoil fast ..dark lures ,blue , black worked down off greymouth for us. Almost bird like beak so long sharp hooks

Finally today I thought the back was good enough to go fishing. Punishing being laid up in the best spell of weather in ages.
Out of Delaware on the incoming so not on the water till 830ish with a workmate, blue water right into the coast....could see bottom clearly from boat in 8m water!
Out to where I would usually fish this time of year and sharked out.....50 50 go deeper or fish the coast.
Went with fish the coast as for once I had chucked the 223 in and workmate was pretty keen on some meat for biltong.
Goats were plentiful and reasonably tame along this bit of coast but with a certain local utuber giving them a curry up of late they have got rather shy.
Blue cod were surprisingly plentiful in decent legal size.....moved out to get away from them and got pannies and more cod all the while whatching a small mob of goats that were annoyingly about 500m away from public land.
Got a couple of feeds and cruised up the coast, marked some rocks and come in on the high.....had to wait a bit to get trailer in.
There's a guy with the cowling off winding and winding and winding his motor over without a single fire....couple of mins of that and I couldn't help myself and I had to yell out" stop fucking winding it or you will burn out your starter motor!!!"

Got on the trailer and went and give him a hand...pulled plugs full throttle and wound over while it pumped fuel out, dried fuel and oil off plugs on my t shirt and checked for spark...all good, refitted and full throttle start lots of smoke then all good.
Stop restart all good. "Have you at least got some spare plugs" I asked as he was about to leave to go fishing �� " no but I dont think I will go far now"...
Hopefully he at least learned how to start his outboard.......for a shitty old boat and an old motor it had a bloody amazingly good battery!



Fish n chips on the bbq.

Your a GC VC ..okiwi next weekend spare beds

Good on ya VC I've said it before but ill say it again.."there are muppets everywhere"

Shame about the 'youtuber' and the goats (news to me) but in my opinion youtube is right up there with 1080 and thermals... buggering a few spots around here that's for sure !!!!

Hope your back is 100% soon mate all the best ah !!


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Today was probably the best day to get the yak out this year. Unfortunately work wasn't playing ball. I could be persuaded to move somewhere with less of the blowy stuff, not sure the boss would be so easy to convince.

Had a ball up the Island with the family, spent four days up there. The weather wasn't really what I was expecting but at least it wasn't too hot.
Friday night we were straight on to the snaps (pannies), one boy got a double hook up and announced it was the best day of his life.
Kids have so much energy.......they were up early and bed late, swimming, fishing and kayaking all day.
The fishing was a bit slow Sat, Sun and Monday but good size cod and something I havent seen landed for sometime a John Dory

Love seeing John Dory ...what an amazing fish! Young folk go and go ...and eat and eat ..then fish / swim and repeat! But you know that ..it just gets more expensive as the volume of tucker inhaled increases every bloody month!

Originally Posted by screamO

Had a ball up the Island with the family, spent four days up there. The weather wasn't really what I was expecting but at least it wasn't too hot.
Friday night we were straight on to the snaps (pannies), one boy got a double hook up and announced it was the best day of his life.
Kids have so much energy.......they were up early and bed late, swimming, fishing and kayaking all day.
The fishing was a bit slow Sat, Sun and Monday but good size cod and something I havent seen landed for sometime a John Dory
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Nice. What did you catch the JD on?

Originally Posted by Shearer

Nice. What did you catch the JD on?

Funny you ask that...there we are fishing away at black reef, big hook ups and then a line comes in all tangled and stuff. Thinking its my line that's been caught up in all this I disconnect his trace (cut it in to lots of pieces) and worked out it was just a heap of braid from some other poor suckers line. So what's a man spose to do??? we pull in this line and guess what's on the end off it???? yep one of those stupid expensive jig things. Not to let an opportunity pass by, we hook this stupid thing up to a rod and fuck me .
True story....

Originally Posted by screamO

Funny you ask that...there we are fishing away at black reef, big hook ups and then a line comes in all tangled and stuff. Thinking its my line that's been caught up in all this I disconnect his trace (cut it in to lots of pieces) and worked out it was just a heap of braid from some other poor suckers line. So what's a man spose to do??? we pull in this line and guess what's on the end off it???? yep one of those stupid expensive jig things. Not to let an opportunity pass by, we hook this stupid thing up to a rod and fuck me .
True story....

Probably Mark Cottons experimental Shimano jig he lost on the first drop !

Quick lunchtime mission today. Fishy as and the vis was mint. Havnt hunted snaps in ages so was good to get on the snoop

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