Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by Pengy

The state of the tide was commented on by others

It can get quite "proppy" on the outgoing.

It got very busy with the flounder nets just after you left. Never seen so many cars at the ramp and out by the channel

Originally Posted by berg243

took the grandkids out to waituna beach for a bit of fishing they got excited when we caught 3 small spiny dogs .sadly not big enough to bother filleting and where released which they seemed happy with.wife even managed to catch a triangle clam on a rod and reel.nice afternoon at the beach with family.

Any fish is a good fish to kids, they dont care weather its big or small or spiky or scaley.
All they care about is catching something.
We all could learn a bit from our kids in that respect I guess.

2 of us declined a boys fishing weekend (due to being overseas for work for the last couple of weeks).
However, looking at weather forecast last night, a plan was hatched - take the kids fishing! - get to fish AND brownie points gained

Bloody great day out, kids loved it and caught a few.






Oh and the others fishing trip - fished on Friday, not on sat or sun ( winded off)

2 hours,trailer to trailer,1 dog,1 Chinaman,released a few smallish grunters.
No swell or wind worth a mention,12.5° water.

Originally Posted by madjon_

2 hours,trailer to trailer,1 dog,1 Chinaman,released a few smallish grunters.
No swell or wind worth a mention,12.5° water.Attachment 93066

Great when it is like that ay, when they are on they are on!

My snapper sense was tingling.
Dropped a net out and suspicions confirmed.
No more nets till the stags start roaring.

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Originally Posted by Danny

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Is that @Gibos patch and howd ya get on?

Was a cracker day alright. Went for a cast at the beach. Heap of bait about, no kingis came to play. Its funny how i now turn down offers to go out on boats for pretty much a certain thing for a slim to feck all chance off the bricks/beach. Im bloody addicted to stick baiting aye

Flounder net. I want one. What's the best? And where to buy?


Don't want to tie one myself, until I can with my kids.....(good memories of tying a couple with my granddad)

Originally Posted by Gibo

Was a cracker day alright. Went for a cast at the beach. Heap of bait about, no kingis came to play. Its funny how i now turn down offers to go out on boats for pretty much a certain thing for a slim to feck all chance off the bricks/beach. Im bloody addicted to stick baiting aye

I'm all in on harpooning them now.....

Originally Posted by Beaker

Flounder net. I want one. What's the best? And where to buy?


Don't want to tie one myself, until I can with my kids.....(good memories of tying a couple with my granddad)

Get a low one, 6 inch mesh or larger 7-9 mesh deep and tie the thing down every second float so it can only open a foot where tied and mayby 3 foot between ties.
Nets MUST be over slung to fish well.....cheap arse import nets will not be overslung at all and just dont fish well.
light mesh fishes better but holes all the time.
I use a local guy to sling mine when I cant be arsed(which is more and more often) and a local company for parts however there is a company up north that looks the goods,I have not seen any of their nets in person but on the interweb they look the bizo.
Will find you a link.

Finally got out for a fish with my date Mr Dundee, this morning, the river was Abit dirty, no fish, but I enjoy it, nice and sunny for a change.

These guys.

https://www.actionoutdoors.kiwi/epag.../Flounder-Nets

They know what they are on about and are doing all the right things IMHO (and are bloody cheap!)but as I say I havent seen one in person.

As a learner driver I would recommend a 30 or 40m net, You are almost certainly going to have a few balls ups learning when and where and when not to set your net and pulling in a 60m full of logs or weed or tangled into one big ball by a couple of 2m rays will put you off for life.
Also a shorter net allowes you to set in places you cannot legally set a full 60m net.
It can be very rewarding and hugely frustrating all at the same time.
I recommend it.