Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Danny

Updates please!
I turned down today’s trip as deck-hand with my mate as back’s stuffed. He’s out there and the day looks beautiful.


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Yeah looks mint out there today, had a mint dive lined up but stuck in bed with the flu

I expect some epic fishing pictures from all around the country this weekend!.

I took my Son and another lad out for a fish today....very leisurely start so his mum could have a sleep in.
Slack water and high sun made for slow fishing but surprisingly for the area I found a patch of well legal cod.
Nice few hours on the water.

Originally Posted by Double tap

Heading to White Island tonight then out wider first thing tomorrow morning

Would love to do a trip like this but have a nagging doubt that I'd be feeding the fish for much of the time!

Just got messaged "take a week off and come catch bluefin"

Fuck Id love to go do it again...but just not possible this year.

Got to White Island at about 16.00 had a quick look at the helicopter then found some sign in close to club rocks about 10 kingfish later 4 in the bin it was time for dinner
Wind came up a bit during the night and swung around on us so wasn’t the best sleep
06.30 lures were in after a cooked breaky trolled out behind white about 8 mile the headed west to rangatira knowlls no sign of bluefin tuna
Picked up 3 albacore for the day trolled back east even wider of white towards cape runaway bit more sign in the east and a lot of boats fishing out of waihau bay seems there a fair few fish caught today
We are now anchored for the night at waihau bay
We have a small most likely idle air control valve issue either the motor where it is stalling when going into neutral should be able to work around it tho
Hopefully have better luck on the bluefin tomorrow

Awesome report, thanks, I can imagine I’m up at the beautiful Waihau Bay myself.


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Took a workmate out for a fish this morning.....falling tide to launch on ment freezing cold feet and legs.



Very cold offshore breeze sent me round to a very old Terakihi spot I had no hope for as I hadn't caught them there for at least 10y and low and behold we got 6 good ones and a few panni snap that were undersized.
Wind died off and I steamed up the coast to a decent cod spot, up there it was screaming cold offshore wind as it often does but 10-15min of drifting with engine idling in reverse and the od slop over the back we had our four keepers.
Back towards home and it was glassy and warm.... amazing what a difference a few miles can make to conditions.
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Lures in the water off cape runaway at 06.30 trolled out to 1500 meter line then headed east a lot of boats hooking up but seems mostly straight out from cape runaway so we spun around and headed that way
Was rather frustrating listening to all the hookups over the radio we soon found ourselves in an area where fish were being caught and at 09.10 the port side rigger sprung and the tiagra 80 was singing
With the rest of the gear cleared away we settled in for the fight
Towards the end the fish was down under the boat when the motor decided to quit on us again just what we didn’t need
Luckily the fish didn’t do anything silly and we had it boatside after 45 min
So now with a fish on the deck we reset the gear had a beer and pointed the bow towards home
After another hour of dragging lures it was time to pull the gear and steam 65nautical miles back to Whakatane
Total distance traveled at sea 400km
330l fuel used
Fish weight 83.4kg
Got home at 16.40 proceeded to clean and pack the catch with help from family got to bed at 22.00
Now got to clean the boat

Well done man!


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Originally Posted by Danny

Well done man!


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Cheers bud how did you get on?

Only a pig hunt and a snapper fish as backs been stuffed… but we have a plan mate!


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Thems are some mighty fishes DoubleTap, nice job
That is some long distance boating.

That sounds like a mean as trip.. I’ll bet who ever went with you was a real gc😉

Originally Posted by RBANGA300wm

That sounds like a mean as trip.. I’ll bet who ever went with you was a real gc��

Sure is a GC a top bloke indeed
Thanks for coming mate was a awesome adventure

Anyone remember this photo? I had seen it in a Fishing News many years ago. Caught commercially in the BOP from memory.
https://m.facebook.com/1383273770335...48&__tn__=EH-R