Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

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We are so good we managed to catch two spiky dogs on one hook...I shit you not.
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New phone fuckups.

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We redeamed ourselves.

Looking at that photo I’m now convinced , resident craft with tube worm on the shell verse mobile cray lighter shell colour and lack of barnicals/ growth on its shell…see the same thing at Kaikoura ..locals are dark red , movers are lighter ….where they come from and go to no idea. But this is a great example example of the different types.

Yes could very early shedder. Don’t think so myself didn’t see any sign of sheds yet.

Out with Dad and my Son and Uncle today.
Dad wanted to get some oysters,I wanted to use my dredge and rope cos I know it works in the deep water where they are. He wanted to use his.

He brought his longline....baited with 100% squid....sigh.
Conditions were very average.
First tow a dozen nice oysters but not much shell and stuff and I suspect the dredge was flying half the time due to water pressure on the rope and 2m plus swell and chop.
Next tow other direction one clump of 3 oysters and nothing else...tow 3 nothing.
As the tide started to run it just wouldn't stay on the bottom.

Into the coast to try for a cod....too rough too windy drifting too fast lines in prop....fuck this let's go pick up the longline....two sand Sharks and all the rest of the baits untouched in my shit hot gurnard longline spot.
Oh and a floatline round the outboard this time.
At least we weren't the only ones struggling.....big boat there struggling with a line caught round either their rudder or prop...cruised over to see if the needed any help then bashed our way back towards Delaware.
Managed to scrape up some gurnard then surf our way back in over the bar without hitting the prop
Dad says thanks for the Cray Joe.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Out with Dad and my Son and Uncle today.
Dad wanted to get some oysters,I wanted to use my dredge and rope cos I know it works in the deep water where they are. He wanted to use his.

He brought his longline....baited with 100% squid....sigh.
Conditions were very average.
First tow a dozen nice oysters but not much shell and stuff and I suspect the dredge was flying half the time due to water pressure on the rope and 2m plus swell and chop.
Next tow other direction one clump of 3 oysters and nothing else...tow 3 nothing.
As the tide started to run it just wouldn't stay on the bottom.

Into the coast to try for a cod....too rough too windy drifting too fast lines in prop....fuck this let's go pick up the longline....two sand Sharks and all the rest of the baits untouched in my shit hot gurnard longline spot.
Oh and a floatline round the outboard this time.
At least we weren't the only ones struggling.....big boat there struggling with a line caught round either their rudder or prop...cruised over to see if the needed any help then bashed our way back towards Delaware.
Managed to scrape up some gurnard then surf our way back in over the bar without hitting the prop
Dad says thanks for the Cray Joe.

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Tough day out but that's fishing I guess. At least you are getting out.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Tough day out but that's fishing I guess. At least you are getting out.

Yep knew it would happen.....was discussed yesterday

Still beats being at work

Blessed be the fisherman…the poor barstard needs all the help he can get!

Yarn tomorrow...it's been a big week

So a plan was hatched to go try and get my Son and a workmate their first kings.
It might have been too early but if we didn't try we wouldn't know.
We arrived at okiwi bay to see a boat sitting high and dry in the mud we wouldn't be launching anytime soon so we drove up to the batch for a yarn.
Time and tide waits for no man and I wanted to be at the pass an hour after low tide my boat wasn't going to float until an hour after low tide and this would not do so I have to plan to disconnect the trailer and push it out to deeper water got about half way and the sand was too soft.

Well with a bit of help from a couple of spectators we managed to drag the boat out to deep enough water to get out we were the first one's gone.


I Mark some kings on the sounder but with two newbies on the jigging rods we didn't have any luck and a few snags and lost Lures.
The tide flooded and we went to try something else.

Some dolphin turned up to say gidday.



Longline deployed on the sand from 20-30m in current basin, sat off and burlyed up.
Cod cod and barracuda.....then ol' mate pulls a banana out of his lunch bag! And puts it in his pocket while he caught another Barry....he looked quite shocked when I snatched it and threw it overboard.
We pulled up the long line for more cod and headed up the coast to okuri for lunch.


Then we headed out to 40 m for a drift fish but it was too much drift. Then up to the carrot patch which had been taken over by sharks.
In shallow to avoid the sharks and burley up inside the Northern entrance lots of gurnard it was quite good fishing finally.

Cod are everywhere.... throwing back keepers out on the sand.

Was a long but good day.

Hey Cam... what is that bar like from Delaware towards Maori pa behind Pepin... how deep?

You think you would safely get a 1.4m draft in the entrance on 1/2 tide?

Originally Posted by LBD

Hey Cam... what is that bar like from Delaware towards Maori pa behind Pepin... how deep?

You think you would safely get a 1.4m draft in the entrance on 1/2 tide?

It could be done but you would want pretty good knowledge of the channel. What kind of boat ,trailer sailer?

Parts of the channel are shallower than the bar and there is also a reef in the channel.

Was thinking something a but bigger than a trailer sailor.... one day.

I see the reef that runs along the Pepin side... is there another that runs across the channel?

Sounds like the kind of thing to plan for an hour before HWS... on a calm day... maybe scope the channel with a dinghy and sounder first. That hole inside the entrance, just to the East looks like a nice gunk hole to camp up at.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

It could be done but you would want pretty good knowledge of the channel. What kind of boat ,trailer sailer?

Parts of the channel are shallower than the bar and there is also a reef in the channel.

Comms in that area are bloody shocking, so make sure you have those ducks in a row first

Ducked out in front of matakana for drift fish on the sand. Wind was blowing 20 kn off shore so we tucked in close shallow and burleyed up. Awesome few hours of fishing, snapper galore on stayline, Gurnard hitting the micro jigs, and one huge bloody kahawai that felt like a small king on the light gear. Didn't weigh it but was 69cm long.

Carrots were a welcome addition, cstch the odd one but have been trying to work them out to catch more consistently.

Slowly starting to work out this fishing rod malarkey.

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Originally Posted by Nick-D

Ducked out in front of matakana for drift fish on the sand. Wind was blowing 20 kn off shore so we tucked in close shallow and burleyed up. Awesome few hours of fishing, snapper galore on stayline, Gurnard hitting the micro jigs, and one huge bloody kahawai that felt like a small king on the light gear. Didn't weigh it but was 69cm long.

Carrots were a welcome addition, cstch the odd one but have been trying to work them out to catch more consistently.

Slowly starting to work out this fishing rod malarkey.

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If you like currys... Kawai chunks go fantastic in a yellow curry mix with a bit of Coconut milk.