Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Pengy

I forgot to mention Mackerel. Plenty of that in the shops for human consumption here these days. Guess it must be the positive influence of having so many whining palettes in NZ now.

fixed it for ya

Thanks

Originally Posted by Pengy

Thanks

um you do realize you are a K1W1 now !!

Originally Posted by madjon_

Knots,it's slippery sh1t

Good tip with braid knots @madjon is to do more wraps in the knot than you would with mono. If for example tying a uni knot, if you were using 20lb mono and did 5 turns, do at least 8 in braid as it pulls up really easy. I sometimes double it too because it is so thin but am not convinced this makes any difference apart from giving you a larger diameter to work with. I also tend to used quite heavy braid (15lb for trout, 30lb for bottom fishing) so very rarely have the braid bust before the leader unless it gets damaged. I also cut off the first 10m regularly to try and stop that happening.

Originally Posted by Pengy

I forgot to mention Mackerel. Plenty of that in the shops for human consumption here these days. Guess it must be the positive influence of having so many discerning palletes in NZ now.

I quite like mackerel and other tasty/oily fish.

I've probably caught more fish on pipi than anything else.

Not long now old girl....you have served my family well for over 30 years and soon you can rest and never have an engine hung on your transom again.



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Bloody stingrays have turned back up....it's too bloody warm.
So far 3 have gone over the top of my net thankfully bit the tide is just starting to push now.


I don't like wrestling meter wide stingers in a net in a dingy in the dark.

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How's that forecast treating you @veitnamcam

Originally Posted by madjon_

How's that forecast treating you @veitnamcam

Good...I'm up the lake at the boat races.

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Waitira river bar,
Thursday afternoons efforts, in the wind and rain, kinda slow, but just about to pack up, and a nice snapper, give it 30 min and another, best was 50cm, and two small sent back to the sea, few KY, and a massive eel, 500m of the Waitira river bar in 9m water.
Spent a couple hours, surf casting down the beach for an evening fish, Nice to Be back in Nz after 7 months in the Canadian north.

Originally Posted by southernman

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Waitira river bar,
Thursday afternoons efforts, in the wind and rain, kinda slow, but just about to pack up, and a nice snapper, give it 30 min and another, best was 50cm, and two small sent back to the sea, few KY, and a massive eel, 500m of the Waitira river bar in 9m water.
Spent a couple hours, surf casting down the beach for an evening fish, Nice to Be back in Nz after 7 months in the Canadian north.

I know zilch about sea fishing but are those snapper killed with that mark behind the eye? Have you got a pic of the eel?

Originally Posted by Dundee

I know zilch about sea fishing but are those snapper killed with that mark behind the eye? Have you got a pic of the eel?

Fantastic photos of a great day! Like Dundee I would like to know about the eel! Do you think it was a fresh water variety? We caught one recently way out in open water (30metres deep) that I would have sworn was a sliver belly!

Originally Posted by stingray

Fantastic photos of a great day! Like Dundee I would like to know about the eel! Do you think it was a fresh water variety? We caught one recently way out in open water (30metres deep) that I would have sworn was a sliver belly!

We have caught quite a few eels around here from in the harbour (heaps of them) to out at Motiti and Karewa islands, they go out to spawn and stuff so not uncommon to catch them in the ocean. I don't know what a silverbelly is though but we have caught short and longfin.

Heaps of snapper about first light today, maxed out in 2 hrs even throwing legal s back

Originally Posted by stingray

Fantastic photos of a great day! Like Dundee I would like to know about the eel! Do you think it was a fresh water variety? We caught one recently way out in open water (30metres deep) that I would have sworn was a sliver belly!

Big conger, would be my guess, six feet long and very thick threw the body, guessing 200mm-250mm, brown, white belly, and grumpy. there was know way, I was having him, in the boat, and he can keep the hook.
snapper have been iked spiked, to kill them,