Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

a few more blueies bit rough today but made do

Shit even I could put up with some pretty crap weather for a haul like that

Out for a flounder drag this morning with my Dad and my Son.
Very weedy with the high water Temps and big tides at the moment but the flounder are still there and good size.
Tonnes of little mullet busting up the surface in the shallows and quite a few rays about feeding on the surface on something.


Flounder dog had fun

Mullet probably getting busted up by kings bro

After work dive with @stingray yesterday...sorting a pick up time was made difficult because he had left his phone at home.
Got that sorted picked him up at dive shop....newly serviced gear how good but his card was in his phone.
Got that sorted of to his place load up and off.. "have ya got this that and such and such?"
Nup loop back to his and get such and such.
Finally all sorted we launched on the high, the local fauna at the ramp was pretty good and Joe wasted no time in getting naked to get wetsuit on...I held off expecting some heavy chop outside but it was mint.
Dropped him on a new spot but it was shit, headed off to some known cray spots dropped him on one mark anchored on another nearby and I suited up and swam into a shallow spot I had found a cray in the past and yes there was one there again.
Alas multiple dives on it and it was so far back I could just barely touch it but not get a decent grab to get it out.
I left it with all its feelers and legs intact and hopefully next time it might be further out.
There were crays in residence on the deeper marks but all well educated it would seem.
We buggered off to other marks, seen a pod of dolphins with their young.


Dropped anchor on another known mark and I swam in shallow for an explore...no butters seen...shot a couple of kahawai probably pushed in from the dolphins and found a small patch of paua, maybe 30 of em none bigger than 100mm....they just don't grow to legal size in this area but cool to see them all the same.
No crays on that mark so back to old faithful spot,drop Joe in...he got lost in 8m vis and prospects around the area and managed to snag a couple of keepers.
Beautiful evening on and in the water and caught up with @fatbellydog on the retrieve.
Let's do it all again soon !

I thought I saw you going down Delaware Bay road from the hill top me n the dog were "inspecting"
Well done

All I will say is dont go diving with a boatman that throws your gear at you……as it seems to sink and is hard to find

Then when you request the location of your local cray hole he waves a hand and points into the sun and says over there …but the diving gods blessed me and I found a few handy crays.

The water is almost to warm but the clearest I’ve seen in years, the undersize crays are moulting and I’ve never seen so many, but the keepers are pretty cagey tucked well back in the holes and caves.

Another wonder afternoon / evening doing what I really love, underwater !


Managed a feed , tits up a couple of sitters , chased the big buck rather than take the keeper…all in all a pretty amateurish effort on my behalf ….hope VC will take me out again…please

Good stuff @stingray.
Keep it up VC. Keep him on his toes

Another nice land based trevally on a soft bait. $80K on a boat was wasted!

Thanks Stingray and VC for gift of the cray, it went down a treat. Nice to catch up and let my mad dogs go swimming...

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Took a neighbour out round Pelorus Western entrance to share my limited knowledge on how to soft bait and bugger me the first fish he gets weighed 6kg !
I think he is off to the tackle shop to get some light weight soft baiting gear ��

[ATTACH]241974[/ATTACH Neighbour and I got these Thursday after a couple of hours around / under big workups you could hear the noise of fish splashing from 100’s of m away.

Targeting snapper with soft bait and lures outer sound has been very productive this xmas holiday- 16 over the month we have been here in the Pelorus. We would stop fishing when we felt we had enough - released a few this year 1st been able to do that.

Fishing inner sound for snaps this year didn’t get one - spikey dogs or barracuda only. Water temp colder than normal only 19/20 at jetty normally 22/23. Zero work ups inner sound this year hardly any birds compared to most years - very noticeable hopefully the bait fish and birds turn up Feb/March.

Home tomorrow to earn the crust but back for easter ��

Saw a deer when out walking yesterday the first for me in the 52 years of coming here numbers must be getting up if I can bump into one middle of the day.

Well I still haven't figured out fishing in Cable bay, 6hrs on the water for one size Gurnard and one large kahawai lost yak side.

Fished in close, out in middle of the bay, drifted, out from point, had big schools of kahawai and birds working all around me and couldn't get a take, tried large chrome right down to 15g fleas.. Whatever they were eating didn't match my lures. I know Stringray. I should have used bait..

Definitely spent more calories than fish caught, the Gurnard made for a nice late lunch salad wrap. The worst day of fishing beats the best day of work, whatever that is.. lovely part of the coast line and the early morning fog, rain and sunshine made for a nice day out regardless.

Cheers FBD



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Originally Posted by Fat belly Dog

Fished in close, out in middle of the bay, drifted, out from point, had big schools of kahawai and birds working all around me and couldn't get a take, tried large chrome right down to 15g fleas.. Whatever they were eating didn't match my lures. I know Stringray. I should have used bait..

Probably feeding on krill or something even smaller. They are very hard to catch in this circumstance and bait won't help you. A tiny soft bait or a fly is your best bet, or if you weren't a gentleman sports angler, you could jag them.

What I saw when diving out there was smelt or something similar, 2 inch long 5mill deep and a couple hundred thousand in a school, yes I took the time to count them!

From the surface to 10 ft down I’m pretty sure this is what’s the tern’s are eating as the Kahawai murder them from below!

Perhaps a low tide mission and harvest some kina..to crack and create a cheap burley trail..I know kayaks have very little room but 20 odd of the local variety would take up a lot of room