Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Out yesterday with Dad and my cousin.
Very leasurly start due to tide times.
A couple of hours at 12m in front of rabbit produced a dozen very good sized gurnard(I was quite surprised) and a few spikys and kahawai.

Well im going fishing tomorrow

Boats ready....



Anybody else soaking a bait in the morning??

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

Well im going fishing tomorrow

Boats ready....



Anybody else soaking a bait in the morning??

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Tahuna back beach on the low tide surfcasting with the boy.


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Originally Posted by ROKTOY

Tahuna back beach on the low tide surfcasting with the boy.


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Awesome, tight lines mate

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

Awesome, tight lines mate

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Grandma has asked for some shark so I'm sure we are jinxed now..

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Originally Posted by ROKTOY

Grandma has asked for some shark so I'm sure we are jinxed now..

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As long as she is not fussy what shark I can definitely hook you up!

Out of Delaware with the penguin this morning.
Wanted to head out past 30m line but it was pissing down over there so dropped a longline in 25 and burlyed up....shark city.
Pulled everything up.... thought about going into the gurnard patch but it was pissing down all along the coast now so hammer down towards the blue sky.
Parked up on 35m chart line.....a blue cod....cuda cuda ,rig spiky.
Sigh well at least we had mostly got away from the spikys.


Right in shallow for a last ditch effort before coming in on the low.
Pengy managed a couple of big fat gurnards while we cooked some sausages for breakfast.

And of course the pommy prick forgot to A take sea sick pills.
B (more important) left the beers in his car

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Out of Delaware with the penguin this morning.
Wanted to head out past 30m line but it was pissing down over there so dropped a longline in 25 and burlyed up....shark city.
Pulled everything up.... thought about going into the gurnard patch but it was pissing down all along the coast now so hammer down towards the blue sky.
Parked up on 35m chart line.....a blue cod....cuda cuda ,rig spiky.
Sigh well at least we had mostly got away from the spikys.
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Right in shallow for a last ditch effort before coming in on the low.
Pengy managed a couple of big fat gurnards while we cooked some sausages for breakfast.

Sheesh must be nice to not have to work

Originally Posted by mikee

Sheesh must be nice to not have to work

Yes it is! I could really get used to it if I kept getting paid.

I figured it was going to be a good day when my 5yr old son strolls into our room this morning at 4.50 all dressed in his fishing gear and says "Im ready to go dad".

If you asked my misses if that was a great start to the day you would get a completely different answer

Woke the older lad for a quick brekky and we were off.

Out the channel just on daybreak. Conditions looked good with a slight breeze from the west



Deployed the longline. Anchored and burlyed up. It was instantly obvious that the current was good so i mentioned to the boys that we should be on for a fish.

I didn't expect the triple strike that followed tho, all three rods with flasher rigs got strongly hit simultaneously. Only the bait runner out the back remained idle.

It was pure kaos for a bit. The young fella kept saying "help me dad, help me dad" as line whipped off his reel. "Na bro I'm too busy its everyone for themselves"

Fortunately i got mine up first and self netted it. Then I and was able to lend a hand netting the boys fish. The youngfellas was the biggest a new PB snap for him - 10pound !



After that a couple of gurnard were caught before we lost the current and things went dead. When i brought up a red cod i decided that was the indicator that it was time to grab the longline.

Surprisingly no snaps on that but two more nice gurnard so happy to have those. We had just hit open throttle to head home in the now flat calm sea when the boys spot a workup in the distance.

The misses had said she was keen on some kahawai to make oka so while i buggered about snaring a few of them with my little casting rod i told the boys to drop a bait as there might be a few snaps about.

Bugger me if the oldest lad didn't hook another beauty. Ended up with 4 snaps at 11,10,10 & 7 Pd



Rest of the bin wasn't too bad either



Got home nice and early but it was a steady effort at the processing bench filleting, vacuum packing and smoking frames...



One thing of interest today was instead of the snappers stomachs being full of crabs they were all packed full of these which looked liked some sort of horse muscle?



All in all a bloody fun day









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Shit hot! .....wont be long and it will be after work missions.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Shit hot! .....wont be long and it will be after work missions.

Yep that's right.

Its great when they are in close too....hardly burn any gas !!!

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Well done lads, some nice fish landed for the day.

Out today for a few hours with me minime and stingray and roctoy.
Dragging for flounder
Small tides equal big lows and plenty of area for fish to hide in.
It was windy as f and pretty deep to drag known spots of decent bottom. We snagged a few on the out going then switched spots for the incoming and got a few more.

Once back on land I went to drop a couple in to ol mate I used to yarn to back when set nets were legal, he had terminal cancer and I got a couple of feeds into him before he passed.
Anyway he had passed, my condolences really nice old guy but I was not equipped to deal with his widow.... thankfully his daughter turned up and grabbed the fish so I could leave.

Shit weather great day and company thanks gents.