Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Any locals want to hang onto an end of a flounder net in the morning?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Any locals want to hang onto an end of a flounder net in the morning?

And again,will be gentlemens hours

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

And again,will be gentlemens hours

I plan on getting the yak wet tomorrow, so will pass up the kind invite

Originally Posted by Pengy

I plan on getting the yak wet tomorrow, so will pass up the kind invite

I expect a report

Out with Dad and his mate down from the NI.
Said mate nicknamed me veitnamcam so that's where that came from.
Out to last week's money spot but the tides are all up the shit now so not on the water till 9....small tides little/no current....wind against tide...

I had mentally prepared myself for lots of tangles and I was not disappointed....at least none were in the prop this time
About an hour of spiky dogs and nothing else it was time to bug out.
Changed depth and location a few miles hoping for gurnard and maybe some shallow snaps.
Ok when ankored but then screaming easterly as it so often does in that spot.
Some more tangles.
A few massive Kahawai and gurnard the wind made us piss off to spot three.
Dead no current....managed a few pannie snapper and a couple more gurnard.
Bit of a slow morning but got a feed and quota of tangles.

Sometimes the spot is bangoville, sometimes the spot sucks…at least that’s what I say.

Originally Posted by Joe Schmo

Sometimes the spot is bangoville, sometimes the spot sucks…at least that’s what I say.

Yup....Here in Tasman bay I like big tides and good current coiniciding with change of light.....if you cant catch fish then then you are definitely in the wrong spot..

Beautiful weather today and my diver is suffering the man flu or whoo flu or something so what better to do than get Dad and my Son out for a flounder drag before it gets too cold.


Small tides equals big lows and there was water everywhere. I'd be swimming trying to drag my normal spot so tryed a spot I know to have a clean bottom cos it's normally high and dry at low.
A couple of hits then stingray...big stingray....managed to get him out and lost the flounder in the process then imediatly caught another ray...bugged out to another channel.
A wee drag in another spot a few hits then just as circling into the bank I feel ol ray ray hit the net.... not one but two.
Haul hard for shore before they tangle it too much, tip em out and 4 nice big flats.
Spot 3, feel a few hits then another ray....tip it out and lose the flounder.
Finally it starts to push and I feel the hits.... hoping it's not just one lively fish.
Almost had to swim back to the boat side of the channel and we caught two more rays as the net was nearly on shore.
Thankfully managed to tip them pretty much straight out and hauled in a decent rig and 14-15 flounder some of them were massive.

Dad was pretty happy I think.

Nice one, bloody good to come home with a result
Glad the rays didn't munt ya net

Originally Posted by rugerman

Nice one, bloody good to come home with a result
Glad the rays didn't munt ya net

Me too!!!

watched our son use a cast net the other evening....surprised me how it worked and just how quick and efficent it was at catching baitfish.... I had thought they worked like a purse upsidedown...but nope..it goes out in circle then the weights pull it downwards like a bell,then they get together closing net,the mesh is sized to be like regular gill nets.

thought came to mind how effective it would be from boat in a burley trail.
heck of a quick way to obtain batfish.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

watched our son use a cast net the other evening....surprised me how it worked and just how quick and efficent it was at catching baitfish.... I had thought they worked like a purse upsidedown...but nope..it goes out in circle then the weights pull it downwards like a bell,then they get together closing net,the mesh is sized to be like regular gill nets.

thought came to mind how effective it would be from boat in a burley trail.
heck of a quick way to obtain batfish.

I've seen the yanks using these and thought the same.
Any details on the net and where to buy? I'm keen to get one, but there seems to be a few of options. I want one to throw off the back ( or side), and close without hitting the bottom.

yeah I have thought that too. I think they take a bit of knack to throw and I'm not sure how much room you would have to swing in on the boat ( well my boat with a rocket launcher anyway). Rub up some bread on the surface and let it rip

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

watched our son use a cast net the other evening....surprised me how it worked and just how quick and efficent it was at catching baitfish.... I had thought they worked like a purse upsidedown...but nope..it goes out in circle then the weights pull it downwards like a bell,then they get together closing net,the mesh is sized to be like regular gill nets.

thought came to mind how effective it would be from boat in a burley trail.
heck of a quick way to obtain batfish.

Originally Posted by rugerman

yeah I have thought that too. I think they take a bit of knack to throw and I'm not sure how much room you would have to swing in on the boat ( well my boat with a rocket launcher anyway). Rub up some bread on the surface and let it rip

Bait board, out board, etc... And of the us of a can doit, we can certainly doit! Just not sure on the option that works with the nz fish....
Sabakis are great but also keen on lessoning bait cost....

in whitianga from local store is as close as can tell you sorry...he has two mesh sizes,the larger perfect for jack makeral,the smaller for herrings/piper.