Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

no fear of that as we "pot fishers" ...this current looney tune will play out long before she has whiped out anything.....other than maybe kea or kaka.

Finally Dad took mercy on me and took me out,forgot his chillybin an bait and burly.
Fortunately I had plenty of all of those.
Bit of a steam from Nelson threw one of those barstard little swell/chop combos.
Old bloke dropped the long line out fairly deep.
Burleyed up large in good current and caught nothing for a while then a shark each...pulled up longline for 1 shark and no baits at all so went shallow to spotx.
Dad drops a line in and I sort the burly then as I am baiting up I see his rod getting bites"oi ya rods getting bites" I say as he was pissing about doing something else and he grabs the rod.
It didn't do much for a start and we both thought a ray or a big rig as the weight was obvious......then it started going sideways a bit and we thought oh no its a snake.
Then it decided to piss off rapidly with big nods and peeling line! Each time he got him about halfway up he would go on another big run.....I got the net.


Bloody nice fish to start the season @ 19.5-20p scales were bouncing a bit.

A good feed or 2 of gurnard and one Terry later we pulled the pin as the tide died off.

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Bloody good fish there VC. I had a good day too. Back out tomorrow, I've been given a fish order. Always guaranteed to kill a day!

Went for a look out from Mot this morning with dad. Didn't have long due to other commitments so just snooped around in the shallows.



Didn't locate any brimbos but its carrots for tea.




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Was a massive pod of dolfin out round the spat farm yesterday, we went spatfarm, 30m line,off bark bay,off split apple rock.
Very sharky and lots of cuda in every spot we tried but got a feed of carrots and kahawai. no snaps.

Mrs caught this guy over the weekend. All healed over and obviously not stopping him........well until we ate him

That's my mate John Gibo

John Dor missing the last bit

Got out Saturday for a fish... @stingray txt in the morning with some lame excuse about being too crook to come fishing....at least I had the boy to help me.



It was one of those days where I seemed to catch the only decent fish which ment the boy got bored with catching small kahawai so we didnt stay long.




A couple of XL gurnard in there one took a whole kahawai fillet on the strayline!



The tax men turned up but didnt claim too much gear.

What do you South African and Australian guys do with all the worm parasites in them?....I just use them for bait.




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Used to bait longlines with them,good snapper bait,headed and gutted@$6 a box from Happy.early 70s but.

Originally Posted by madjon_

Used to bait longlines with them,good snapper bait,headed and gutted@$6 a box from Happy.early 70s but.

Yep the Kahawai goes pretty good on the longline too.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Got out Saturday for a fish... @stingray txt in the morning with some lame excuse about being too crook to come fishing....at least I had the boy to help me.



It was one of those days where I seemed to catch the only decent fish which ment the boy got bored with catching small kahawai so we didnt stay long.




A couple of XL gurnard in there one took a whole kahawai fillet on the strayline!



The tax men turned up but didnt claim too much gear.

What do you South African and Australian guys do with all the worm parasites in them?....I just use them for bait.




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Oi I'll have you know that the beer was free and well...... I love free beer and many differnt varieties to try so I had a happy hunting ground until 12pm when shewho, stuffed me in a taxi and took us home. 530am came round way to bloody fast and some barstard had poured sand down me throat and pissed in me eyes! I must have being very well behave because shewho took pity and cooked me up a hell breeky , then put me to work in the garden! Suffer I did ...fish I did not .

great to see fish in the bin ...no more free beers for me!

Here's an update from my side of the bay....

Dad and his mate spent several hours in the boat today out in front of mot/kina. Set and reset long line aswell as rod fishing - still no snaps.

My brother has however caught several in the last week sufcasting off his favourite beach (Marahau area).

Looking back in my diary, we have had consistent snapper catches in front of Mot last two years from the second half of oct onwards.

I just gotta do less work !!!

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Great info thank you!

Originally Posted by kukuwai

Here's an update from my side of the bay....

Dad and his mate spent several hours in the boat today out in front of mot/kina. Set and reset long line aswell as rod fishing - still no snaps.

My brother has however caught several in the last week sufcasting off his favourite beach (Marahau area).

Looking back in my diary, we have had consistent snapper catches in front of Mot last two years from the second half of oct onwards.

I just gotta do less work !!!

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For me front of rabbit good catches of good sized in close in front of rabbit earliest is first week oct (on line and bait...we know they are there earlier)but that is only since 2014 when I got a dingy and started to fish in close.