Fishing tomorrow!

**rugerman** · 12-10-2022, 12:10 PM

Sweet, good to see the flounder dogs doing their bit too

Not a bad haul by the look of it

**stingray** · 12-10-2022, 03:07 PM

Yeah a great evening out, 6 people made clearing the net so much better, still a heaps of branches and twigs even pine cones tangling the net, what we don’t show is the team , taking a side each of the net untangling rubbish to get the trawl back in the tide, they are earned flounder, then they are shared throughout our community!

I’m truely honoured to have folks turn up time after time laughing and yarning getting covered in silt and mud , frozen cold to try and harvest a feed of delicious flounder! Without these folks it would be a bust!
With out their enthusiasm it would never happen
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My personal favorite...the bloody experts �� judgeing my efforts from the shallows

**ROKTOY** · 12-10-2022, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by stingray

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My personal favorite...the bloody experts �� judgeing my efforts from the shallows

I'm sure we were only commending your efforts.

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**veitnamcam** · 14-10-2022, 07:47 AM

A few picks from Kiaks.
At ten bucks per launch you would think the council could water blast the bottom of the ramp.
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**stingray** · 15-10-2022, 08:15 PM

Due to a canceled gathering at the Pengys , we were forced to head for okiwi to hunt kings in French pass.

So with VC on the shore swing and my boss away next week whitebaiting, I took a bit of a bulge and sneaked off early …VC arrived with tucker and beer and yarns, we stowed the gear in the mighty Nissan and buggered off to okiwi.

With the southeast puffing we settled down to yarning , visiting folks to gather intel and enjoying a ale or two!

VC out did himself in the kitchen as we salted / peppered and seared and baked a fallow back strap it was to die for…
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Up not early and away to F / pass …saw dolphins ,gannets , terns it looked very very promising, got to the pass it wasn’t crazy pumping so I was sure we were on the money, being the only boat there took our time setting up our drift and looking for fish…we had the perfect drift again and again …nothing not a nibble no sign of a bait school or kingi on the sounder …it was a bust! ..

Next plan chuck me over the side and hunt crays off to super secret spot …so secret the crays didn’t know they were supposed to be in the cave..off to never fail spot …you guessed it…shit vis couldn’t find a good rock let alone the crack that holds the bugs…

Back in the boat VC has sorted tea couple of fat blues 40cm plus then adds a couple of carrots and I’m just a bloody spectator!

Home to fill the tank…sea flattens off looks like a perfect day tomorrow! Marked up a few rocks for investigation…Photos to follow Sunday evening…beer o’clock

**Shearer** · 15-10-2022, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by stingray

Due to a canceled gathering at the Pengys , we were forced to head for okiwi to hunt kings in French pass.

So with VC on the shore swing and my boss away next week whitebaiting, I took a bit of a bulge and sneaked off early …VC arrived with tucker and beer and yarns, we stowed the gear in the mighty Nissan and buggered off to okiwi.

With the southeast puffing we settled down to yarning , visiting folks to gather intel and enjoying a ale or two!

VC out did himself in the kitchen as we salted / peppered and seared and baked a fallow back strap it was to die for…
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Up not early and away to F / pass …saw dolphins ,gannets , terns it looked very very promising, got to the pass it wasn’t crazy pumping so I was sure we were on the money, being the only boat there took our time setting up our drift and looking for fish…we had the perfect drift again and again …nothing not a nibble no sign of a bait school or kingi on the sounder …it was a bust! ..

Next plan chuck me over the side and hunt crays off to super secret spot …so secret the crays didn’t know they were supposed to be in the cave..off to never fail spot …you guessed it…shit vis couldn’t find a good rock let alone the crack that holds the bugs…

Back in the boat VC has sorted tea couple of fat blues 40cm plus then adds a couple of carrots and I’m just a bloody spectator!

Home to fill the tank…sea flattens off looks like a perfect day tomorrow! Marked up a few rocks for investigation…Photos to follow Sunday evening…beer o’clock

Make the most of Okiwi while you can still get out there.

**veitnamcam** · 15-10-2022, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by Shearer

Make the most of Okiwi while you can still get out there.

Yes.. but I am sure our local ray will get out with a little help from some some friends
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**stingray** · 16-10-2022, 09:31 PM

Sorry folks I have tried to load photos but seems that’s not happening!

So here’s our story …woke up to a beautiful calm day, one of those epic days that you just enjoy! We should have dug in early suited up and dived the low tide, instead we chased the snapper and gurnard! With intel saying pannies we’re in close we chased the ghosts.

With wonderful conditions we boated small cod , bigger cod , carpet sharks , barracouta, then finally spikey dogs ..about then I hauled the pick and buggered off down the coast to spot number 2…well bugger me VC and his lad landed a few sizeable cod and other rats and mice…

Should have have hit the water, the sun burnt and the northerly puffed …we tried various marks…and the day ran away …we ran out steam and enthusiasm for a late Sunday clean up …our diving passion drifted away faster than than the tide had run all day.

Home as the sea breeze built , Lisa bless her had done chores and packed up the batch. VC and his lad scrubbed the boat and chucked fuel into the totes, I tore off the fillets and then we were packed and away….

A long weekend beckons, with a bit of reasonable weather we may see an improvement in the vis and fishing …our last chance for seven weeks so best we make it pay..thanks again VC for doing the hard yards ..good night everyone..over and out

**veitnamcam** · 18-10-2022, 01:41 PM

Out today with Dad and the Father in law.
Out to 30m, burly up...It's early and we are mentally prepared for a sharking but hope to get a couple of decent early snapper.
We weren't disappointed with the sharks bit thankfully I was snagging the odd decent blue cod to keep spirits up.
I was about to pull the pin and go shallower and I got a nice 12 pound snap so we peserveared a bit longer but was inundated with spiky dogs so bugged out to 16 m....it was coming on slack tide now and fishing was very slow for an hour or more, couple of gurnard then Dad caught the old battler of a snap....a bit of recovery time by the boat and then he swam off strong....only 16m so I hope he was ok.
The sharks turned up again so went into 10m....finally no sharks and some decent gurnard