Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by MB

Took my neighbour, Mike out for a fish yesterday. We had a good day on the snapper, but it was topped off by a good trevally for him. Even better, being a bit old school, he doesn't eat them, so sashimi for me!

Nice fish. Lure caught?

Originally Posted by Shearer

Nice fish. Lure caught?

Yes, inchiku.

Originally Posted by MB

Yes, inchiku.

At least you've got the "old school" guy using lures.

Originally Posted by Shearer

At least you've got the "old school" guy using lures.

No bait allowed on my boat unless you are under 12 years old

My niece and her partner were over for a visit, so I threw them and my boy in the wagon, and we headed off down to the water for a quick flounder session.
We were a bit early for the tide, so while we waited it out, my boy saw a flounder in the shallows so pounced on it. At least we had one if it all went pear shaped later...
Tihe tide dropped, so the net went in. Niece on the shallow end resulted in a nice haul of weed and fish.
Dipped in for a second drag again with good success. Nieces.boyfriend didn't have a chance of getting on the net.after her successful first drag
About to dip in for a final drag, and a random @Pengy waddled up the beach and checked the haul.
Net back into the bin, guts out of fish and back to the wagons for a yarn and a dry off before sharing the fish with a local fisherman who had been out spinning for a fish,
The local Penguin bartered for a few fish before we all headed home for a late tea.
Several flounder are now in the freezer, chilling off ready for the kids' trip home down south tomorrow.
Niece had never netted fish before, so it was a blast watching her face (and the boyfriends) as the net was dragged on land and revealed its plunder.



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Another trip to remember, out at what could be our last easy trip out of Delaware as the courts have decided that council have more sway than the public, using rate payers $$ to ban rate payers from a heritage access beach.. so fuck you Nelson City Council of cunts …

you weak bunch of fuckers who campaigned on supporting our access to get voted in……then fucking stabbed us in the back….

It will be well remembered!! By myself and others you fuckers.


Righto that said and as this is a happy place for yarns and stories …

well VC had a nasty dose of man flue and on the mend was suffering from cabin fever, so called upon me to give the boss ….hay mate how about a half day?

Well as it happened he said ok at 11 am and VC was picking me up at 12….

Out to the “Delaware ramp” , incoming tide launched and away, out to see birds and Kawahai busting up the whole bay…chasing a whitebait sized smelt/ bait fish terns and Petrals everywhere was absolutely epic,

We chose to dive the high tide slack, with a few extra marks on the sounder deciding were to start was problematic, so old faithful to start of course down to the bottom new suit , and lack of bottom time showed.. but with an extra weight in my BCD I dropped in on a sitter…poor bugger was in a tight spot and got himself in a worse spot in me catch sack..worked the turf small crays and bunchs holding tight at the back of holes …nothing out the front.

So moved marks over to another set of turf , down again grabbed another keeper and then spent the next bit of the dive scaring the keepers …”bugger me “ VC you need a better diver!


Diving done and current ebbing in full flood we set a burley and snagged a feed of carrots , Trevs and bugger me a decent snapper ..at time we were surrounded by bait birds and bust ups , no kings just huge Kawahai ..flat arse seas ,hot sun , cold beer and amazing company…








Life is short , so full it with wonderful memories…thanks VC…keep well everyone

Originally Posted by stingray

Another trip to remember, out at what could be our last easy trip out of Delaware as the courts have decided that council have more sway than the public, using rate payers $$ to ban rate payers from a heritage access beach.. so fuck you Nelson City Council of cunts …

you weak bunch of fuckers who campaigned on supporting our access to get voted in……then fucking stabbed us in the back….

It will be well remembered!! By myself and others you fuckers.


Righto that said and as this is a happy place for yarns and stories …

well VC had a nasty dose of man flue and on the mend was suffering from cabin fever, so called upon me to give the boss ….hay mate how about a half day?

Well as it happened he said ok at 11 am and VC was picking me up at 12….

Out to the “Delaware ramp” , incoming tide launched and away, out to see birds and Kawahai busting up the whole bay…chasing a whitebait sized smelt/ bait fish terns and Petrals everywhere was absolutely epic,

We chose to dive the high tide slack, with a few extra marks on the sounder deciding were to start was problematic, so old faithful to start of course down to the bottom new suit , and lack of bottom time showed.. but with an extra weight in my BCD I dropped in on a sitter…poor bugger was in a tight spot and got himself in a worse spot in me catch sack..worked the turf small crays and bunchs holding tight at the back of holes …nothing out the front.

So moved marks over to another set of turf , down again grabbed another keeper and then spent the next bit of the dive scaring the keepers …”bugger me “ VC you need a better diver!


Diving done and current ebbing in full flood we set a burley and snagged a feed of carrots , Trevs and bugger me a decent snapper ..at time we were surrounded by bait birds and bust ups , no kings just huge Kawahai ..flat arse seas ,hot sun , cold beer and amazing company…

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Life is short , so full it with wonderful memories…thanks VC…keep well everyone

Epic!

This is nice, Stingray! Nelson area really has everything I need from land to the sea, whatever fishing or hunting can be done in a day trip. Importantly for me, you got an airport with air airlines can easily access to international flights in both Auckland and Christchurch, I only find it out last year. Have you seen any Chinese there? I mean residents, not tourists and I knew for all the Chinese visitors only less than 5% of them have visited Nelson in the past 10 years. So, do you think I can survive in there?

Slow day out of Ohiwa harbor. The bar was a bit lumpy with more wind blowing than forecast but we push out as there's little swell and wind was forecast to drop, which it did.

Plenty of Kahawai around and caught majority of them on a little tungsten flea micro jig. Good fun on lighter 4-7kg rod.

Caught a few snapper, enough just over 32cm and the skipper got one decent one that came home. A good gurnard fell to a slow jig. Boated a small Hammer head shark, loads of mackerel and a 65cm kingfish which took a mackerel head.

Enough fish for a feed and enjoyed giving some to my mum, her neighbors and my sister got in on the act. Smiles all round.

Cheers FBD

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Originally Posted by Fat belly Dog

Slow day out of Ohiwa harbor. The bar was a bit lumpy with more wind blowing than forecast but we push out as there's little swell and wind was forecast to drop, which it did.

Plenty of Kahawai around and caught majority of them on a little tungsten flea micro jig. Good fun on lighter 4-7kg rod.

Caught a few snapper, enough just over 32cm and the skipper got one decent one that came home. A good gurnard fell to a slow jig. Boated a small Hammer head shark, loads of mackerel and a 65cm kingfish which took a mackerel head.

Enough fish for a feed and enjoyed giving some to my mum, her neighbors and my sister got in on the act. Smiles all round.

Cheers FBD

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Did you shoot out to the mussel farm? Filled the bin there last weekend

Lunch, making the most of the bigger snapper, smoked had and wings on fresh bread. Bloody good.

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One off the bucket list!

Originally Posted by MB

One off the bucket list!

Bloody beauties, they are solid diamonds. ( sand flounder) well done ��

No, just straight out from entrance in 25m then 40m. The farm has been fishing well. Ohiwa charter boat has been doing well out at the farm.

Kayaker have also been doing OK straight off beach in 20m, starting to fire up post spawning.

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Flounder for dinner, very good!

Couple of questions for you experts.

1. Is it necessary to remove the scales? I did because the internet told me to do it, but hardly seemed worth the effort as there weren't many and the scales were small.

2. I cut around the head and pulled the guts out with it. Seemed to work. Seen some YouTube videos where people make a straight diagonal cut behind the head which takes the head and the abdominal cavity off in one go. Nice and clean, but possibly a bit of meat wasted. What's the way to go?