Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Nick-D

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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One more time with pictures

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Originally Posted by Nick-D

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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Awesome bro I admire you guys with the ability to do that. No bs its inspiration

Would love to see some underwater photos of snaps....if its even possible?

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Snaps at 35 meters ..crays very shallow..another young bloke hooked ...priceless

Originally Posted by kukuwai

Awesome bro I admire you guys with the ability to do that. No bs its inspiration

Would love to see some underwater photos of snaps....if its even possible?

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I need to dust off the gopro, luke potts from aquatic rehab has some sick footage and pics of big snaps. The big fellas are pretty shy so I'm usually to busy trying to get a spear in one to think about taking any footage

Originally Posted by Beaker

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Always a view I like. Leaving Auckland.

Had great plans for this weekend.... they all got cancelled.
Tweeked the back on sat so rested up sun and got the boy out of bed at 2:45am this morning, loaded bait ice burly food and coffee and was off to golden bay and pick up Dad who was caravaning without a boat to go slay some panni snaps.
Burly in while still dark and just getting light as all the rods were in.



We were into them pretty much straight away but the current wasn't doing what I thought it was so swapped burly position to Dads side and while he was doing that he dropped his line and left it in free spool....
Lets just say 5 snapper on 5 different rods all tangled together....If you have been there you will feel my pain.
So unclipped dads rig who the promptly clipped on another and was dropping back down while he left me to deal to the fish and the flasher rig tangle from hell!!!.
Eventually I got it sorted and Dad and Son are bringing them in flat out.



Nothing big but everything well and truly legal, we were putting back any smaller ones as long as they hadn't blown their arse out( only 18m)
As the current dropped so did the bite rate, chilly bin looking rather full Dad only wanting a couple and me not looking forward to filleting heaps of fish by myself we came in and were on the trailer at 9.


Dropped off a trail of fish to freinds on the way home and job done....now to fillet whats left.

Originally Posted by Beaker

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Headed toward the Motuihe channel Beaker?

VC feel your pain ...folks asked me to crew with them today with da's service man mate ..all good ..out to snapper depth..dropped first burley...must have being a watery brew as it was gone in 30 mins ..second one in few carrots , Kawhai, cod , snakes.current running large snake round burley pot, round other lines etc etc ...but cunning stingray had prepared...clips on all lines and spare traces pretied in snaplock bags ...so cut cut rig rig easy as ...

Now the shit hit the fan ..lost a couple of hooks so Da his mate decide to "sort this barstard out "...wire traces abound ..now what the fuck do two wobbly old men want to tangle with a toothy powerful animal for ...because one encourages the other and stupidity results !

So sure enough a bite is felt and the battle begins ...not much of a fight ...well a reasonable size blue is soon on the surface being leed to the boat like a dog on a lead.....now I was hauling burley pots and telling others to clear lines ...all to no availe...said blue sharks says bugger this put on a powerful run around the boat ..now everyone is involved ...Da's yelling mostly at me for some reason ...a bit at Ma which isn't ever a good idea..Dave the invite is yelling advice at Da and heckling and scorning me for again for reasons I don't understand.

Me I'm arming myself with a blunt fucking knife and a pair of pliers...so now we have three grey haired battlers locked in a stalemate with a pissed off shark ...and some how it's now my problem ...bloody fantastic!

Wrangled the blue to the boat , powerful bloody animal ..got it semi subdued..and away ...Da and Dave congratulate each other ..being navy men with years of experience how well the managed the situation...me I cursed them both and threaten them with blunt bloody bait knife ..Ma saw the funny side of it all bless her.

Ha Ha bloody classic....I can just imagine it too.

war stories, almost.

Out with VC gentleman hours ..epic dive ..saw good number of crays..had some success..fishing slow as tide ran out ...so cod bashing time

Well that is gentleman fishing, burnt couple of burleys brim and small cod ..great company nice dive saw a few well tucked away...fluked a couple of keepers..yarned laughed and bullshited the afternoon away .. cheers VC that's what life is all about

Originally Posted by stingray

Well that is gentleman fishing, burnt couple of burleys brim and small cod ..great company nice dive saw a few well tucked away...fluked a couple of keepers..yarned laughed and bullshited the afternoon away .. cheers VC that's what life is all about

Upper Waingawa (Eastern Tararuas) for three days. Weapon of choice: Scott Radian 6wt. I haven't got out much with this rod yet, so this will be an opportunity to give it a good work out. Will take both 6wt and 7wt lines to see it I prefer having it overlined as some do. I'm expecting a reasonable number of hook-ups on 3-5lb browns. Hopefully no-one else in there, though there is plenty of water to divi up if there is.