Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Down to okiwi this morning , before my fishing buddy got back fishing !

Gentlemen hours due to the tide , set forth with high hopes and enthusiasm!

South easterly blown over the top of the hill do we hugged the coast..tried a few spots without much joy.

Ran out of paintence, geared up and over the side t the split rock, twas a ghost town.
Spot two in shallow produced a keeper and a handy buck.
Still half a tank left and no pressure to get a result dived a area I haven't bothered with for 15 odd years ....down and around and around..and damn near crashed into a nice cray, poor bugger was in a easy spot and I took em.

A bit later I had my head in a cave and a bloody cray came screaming past my face ...I darn near wet my suit ..he must have being out on the top of the rock or something..no idea where he came from.

But he scurried away and was gone , swam round the rock and hello my beauty..a bit of a battle and a very nice cray in the sack ...the cold was chewing into me and I was thinking of warm cloths but one more set of feelers caught my attention and I sacked another victim.

Saw a few more smalls a couple of beeried females one huge huge red Moki.

The cold bit and I was done. VC as always right there to to pick me up. Bloody legend !

Pod of dolphins came charging into the rocks couldn't se what they were hunting but was amazing to watch them.. fishing was a bust ..one cod for tea

Boat washed fire on and a beer in hand

Originally Posted by stingray

Down to okiwi this morning , before my fishing buddy got back fishing !

Gentlemen hours due to the tide , set forth with high hopes and enthusiasm!

South easterly blown over the top of the hill do we hugged the coast..tried a few spots without much joy.

Ran out of paintence, geared up and over the side t the split rock, twas a ghost town.
Spot two in shallow produced a keeper and a handy buck.
Still half a tank left and no pressure to get a result dived a area I haven't bothered with for 15 odd years ....down and around and around..and damn near crashed into a nice cray, poor bugger was in a easy spot and I took em.

A bit later I had my head in a cave and a bloody cray came screaming past my face ...I darn near wet my suit ..he must have being out on the top of the rock or something..no idea where he came from.

But he scurried away and was gone , swam round the rock and hello my beauty..a bit of a battle and a very nice cray in the sack ...the cold was chewing into me and I was thinking of warm cloths but one more set of feelers caught my attention and I sacked another victim.

Saw a few more smalls a couple of beeried females one huge huge red Moki.

The cold bit and I was done. VC as always right there to to pick me up. Bloody legend !

Pod of dolphins came charging into the rocks couldn't se what they were hunting but was amazing to watch them.. fishing was a bust ..one cod for tea

Boat washed fire on and a beer in hand
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It took me two hours to sort out which will come with me this time in the only one checked bag...

yum Crayfish, well done fellas. Looks bloody nice and clear and cold. We had a swim down at cable bay today, bit fresh without a wetsuit but water was clear. Mid winter swim with the family.

See a few Snapper are still out in the bay to.

Love seeing dolphins working the ocean, I have had a few surfs on the south coast of WA where we have been surrounded by dolphins chasing schools of Australian salmon, amazing experience to be in the water with them.

Do you guys have the inner ears pain when you dive below 5m, or maybe 6m? It `s like someone use chopstick to poke into your ears kind of pain.

Originally Posted by Black Rabbit

Do you guys have the inner ears pain when you dive below 5m, or maybe 6m? It `s like someone use chopstick to poke into your ears kind of pain.

That pain is caused by the weight of the water above and around you squeezing the air in your inner ear. The solution lays in equalising the pressure (repeatedly as you descend deeper) by forcing air from your throat through your Eustachian tubes (which connect the middle ear to the nasal sinus cavity) by conducting the valsalva manoeuvre (forcing air through a closed airway). My god, the shit I remember from my Divemaster days.

Originally Posted by Black Rabbit

It took me two hours to sort out which will come with me this time in the only one checked bag...

I would remove the hooks. This has caused me trouble in the past.

Originally Posted by Black Rabbit

Do you guys have the inner ears pain when you dive below 5m, or maybe 6m? It `s like someone use chopstick to poke into your ears kind of pain.

Rushy is more or less correct. Diving should never be painful, there is a risk of serious ear/hearing damage. You should do some training whether SCUBA or freediving.

Full moon fever !!

A old hand I used to work with said they would set a net for flounder when the first snow hit the mountains!

Well with snow forecast and an early afternoon tide we gathered at the flats , some slid into wetsuit others into gum boots and warm cloths.

Off we wandered across the mud down to the tide ..timed the tide damn near perfect ..we plunged in and set to dragging , @Fat belly Dog says he’s feeling a few bites , the suddenly band bang I’m got one as well epic !

Beached the drag ..pine cones , sticks , a tail turned into a flounder and then another and a few more , smiles abounded the new crew were excited and keen to get the net back in the water!

That done the ebb tide ran out of puff , so we binned the drag and @ROKTOY and FBD wandered up the Chanel to set up for a drag against the incoming

I guided the gum boot crew back to dry land as the flood rushed back into the estuary, then returned to find the team hauling the net after a few hits, 5 large flats hit the bin and we scarpered up the gutter to reset to fish the last spot before we were flooded out .. the tide pushed and we had a few hits then the tide stopped dead .

Sadly the sun was swallowed by the gathering clouds and the temperature dropped more than a couple of degrees and we chose warm dry cloths rather than the chilly water ! The net hit the dry with a handful of fish flapping on the sand …a perfect ending.

Back to warm cloths and a gas cooker , snags in the pan , warm cloths and great company and yarns , a cold beer and burn ya fingers hot snag!

We wandered home into the incoming showers! The temp dropped even more as we left the coast and we looked up at the tops to see a dusting of snow forming with a full moon looming large out of the clag !

arrived home , shared the catch with the neighbours, a hot shower ended the adventure.

Once again a huge thanks to the forum members that take the time to share an afternoon getting wet on my promise of a few fish ..

Cheers everyone!

Credit for photo from sea to pan in less than hour FBF

oh MAN I can almost smell that from here...looks o so tasty .

Thanks Stingray, ROCTOY and Mini-ROC and Gumboot crew, great afternoon sharing laughs and brews with good crew. Not sure who pleased the flounder gods but on cue the wind dropped and the sun came out as well walked out for the first drag and the temp dropped and rain came as we packed up to head home...

Bloody great to have a few mates to talk shit and catch fish with, thanks fellas. Flounder were full of roe and made for a very tasty dinner. Fire and BBQ at my shack after the next drag I am thinking.

Go out, get wet, catch a feed, cook up a feed, yak and yarn. Home and cook up a bloody yummy feed. Mum bought home some hot chips and dinner was done. Cheers @stingray and @Fat belly Dog.

Sorry ROKTOY and Mini-ROK...

spelling not my strong point, thats why that reports taking so long....

Originally Posted by MB

Rushy is more or less correct. Diving should never be painful, there is a risk of serious ear/hearing damage. You should do some training whether SCUBA or freediving.

I saw at least half a dozen examples of significant permanent hearing loss from diving over my (audiological) career. A couple were particularly bad.