Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Well the morning was long but the company was brillient. We played "catch and release" with about 50+ red cod ( something not normally caught here, Same for a similar number of spiky dogs and a few baracutta as well. Only one edible leagal blue cod was nabbed by our guest fisher. Which was not retuned whilst being measured @Pengy
Bloody good day

The therapy session,

Mikee got us at sparrow fart to avoid the craziness at the Nelson ramp which went to plan, we were on the water and away as the madness was beginning. Headed down the coast towards Pepin island , set up camp ,hook lines ,burley and a cup of tea.

Sharks were straight into the action along with some bloody red cod, birds going hard around us then a pod a dolphins roared passed everything screamed fish.......and fish we did ..yarned up a storm was excellent therapy for us all!

Mikee did some intel and made some phone calls not much happening around, so we pulled the hook lines and looked back towards home ...Mikee the cunning bugger put us on some reef and my mate Sol pulled a keeper cod from the blue ...yehaa ...we ate lunch had a brew, sat , yarned soaked baits all was right with the world ...trolled some repalas home, snakes were hungry but the kings were not ..Mikee got us home ahead of the sea breeze turned howling gale ..

Gave the boat a rinse had a further yarn , packed up and away. A wonderful day just what myself and Sol needed bloke time talking bloke stuff , fishing & relaxing. A huge thank you Mikee for your hospitality and trying everything in your tackle box to get us on the fish, your endless paintence and great humour made for a absolutely wonderful day.

Big hopes for @Munsey to come through with some fishing stories of epic ness ....

Originally Posted by stingray

The therapy session,

Mikee got us at sparrow fart to avoid the craziness at the Nelson ramp which went to plan, we were on the water and away as the madness was beginning. Headed down the coast towards Pepin island , set up camp ,hook lines ,burley and a cup of tea.

Sharks were straight into the action along with some bloody red cod, birds going hard around us then a pod a dolphins roared passed everything screamed fish.......and fish we did ..yarned up a storm was excellent therapy for us all!

Mikee did some intel and made some phone calls not much happening around, so we pulled the hook lines and looked back towards home ...Mikee the cunning bugger put us on some reef and my mate Sol pulled a keeper cod from the blue ...yehaa ...we ate lunch had a brew, sat , yarned soaked baits all was right with the world ...trolled some repalas home, snakes were hungry but the kings were not ..Mikee got us home ahead of the sea breeze turned howling gale ..

Gave the boat a rinse had a further yarn , packed up and away. A wonderful day just what myself and Sol needed bloke time talking bloke stuff , fishing & relaxing. A huge thank you Mikee for your hospitality and trying everything in your tackle box to get us on the fish, your endless paintence and great humour made for a absolutely wonderful day.

Big hopes for @Munsey to come through with some fishing stories of epic ness ....

Yep a very good day, Harbourmaster was checking Nav Lights etc when we arrived at the ramp early morning. I think a few people were not that hapy to see him. And one poor sod managed to lose his very very new looking boat off the trailer whilst backing it down the ramp. All before 5am

looks like the snapper have gone off the bite in the bay though for now, water temp is 21.5 which is higher than usual for the time of year. Never seen so many red cod either

Im off to Stewart Island for 10 days.
Just a chill out with my adult children and their partners coming.
Not really fishing seriously ( yeh right ).
Not really going diving much ( yeh right ).
And not really hunting seriously ( yeh right @223nut ).
But seriously going to relax and see what the Island has to offer.
Taking 2 packrafts and have a mate joining us with another packraft a little later. So looking forward to spending some time out on them in Patterson inlet.

I believe the beer is cheap over there and groceries are expensive.
Makes it sound like the perfect place to live off the land !

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Im off to Stewart Island for 10 days.
Just a chill out with my adult children and their partners coming.
Not really fishing seriously ( yeh right ).
Not really going diving much ( yeh right ).
And not really hunting seriously ( yeh right @223nut ).
But seriously going to relax and see what the Island has to offer.
Taking 2 packrafts and have a mate joining us with another packraft a little later. So looking forward to spending some time out on them in Patterson inlet.

I believe the beer is cheap over there and groceries are expensive.
Makes it sound like the perfect place to live off the land !

Venison in the backyard, paua on the way home from work without getting your shorts wet.... What's not to like? Ahhh the sandflies and usually the weather.
@akaroa1 almost worth bringing over water bottles not beer, been no rain for 4weeks+

Originally Posted by 223nut

Venison in the backyard, paua on the way home from work without getting your shorts wet.... What's not to like? Ahhh the sandflies and usually the weather.
@akaroa1 almost worth bringing over water bottles not beer, been no rain for 4weeks+

Christchurch just had the driest November in 165 years I think.
BP where I am we were 500mm ahead of average yearly rainfall at end of October.
Then the tap got turned off and it hasn't rained alt all since.

So lets just get this straight then ..... you don't drink beer anymore ?

Trip report : 530 am launched mates boat at lyttelton . Destination Deep Trench 60 ks out wide . Sloppy seas slowed our journey , but we knew we where in for a cracker as fog flanked us both ways . Fishing was awsome , only one trumperter , but huge blue cod made up for there lack . Biggest blue cod on our boat 57 cm our companoin boat 61 cm ( there smallest fish was 50cm ) and 3 trumperter . We got 3 terriki . Photos of cod i dont think do them justice but here they are

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Have pulled some good groper out of there in the past.

Red cod are abundant here at the moment . We got some good specimens at Okiwi the other week too. Shame they are crap eating

Quick trip out of the Manukau this morning for a 2hr fish. Got a couple of nice pannies

Some good eating there.
Stabicraft?

Yep

Looked Like a Stabi floor

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Looked Like a Stabi floor

It’s a Stabi 1550. Has clear polycarbonate (?) front and quarters. Quite a weird feeling looking down and seeing the bow etc
The front centre lifts on gas struts to do the anchor.
Was a dead flat day so not sure how it rides with a bit of chop

Originally Posted by sako75

It’s a Stabi 1550. Has clear polycarbonate (?) front and quarters. Quite a weird feeling looking down and seeing the bow etc
The front centre lifts on gas struts to do the anchor.
Was a dead flat day so not sure how it rides with a bit of chop

I've looked at pictures of them and wondered how you would do a bimini and front clears with that system?

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