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    Quote Originally Posted by kukuwai View Post
    Shot out from mot this morning before work.



    Didn't have a whole lot of time but left the Long line down for an hour at 10m mark, it picked up one small snapper. I managed 2 gurnard on the rod in that time.



    Just enough for tea !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by veitnamcam View Post
    Whats the go with ramp access at Mot?
    Motueka power boat club. Swipe card annual fee $120. Good facility, heaps of parking and washing up station etc. I split it with dad VC makes it a bit cheaper

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    Had a good day out in Foveaux Strait on Monday with me old mate Sassy Sasquatch. The other boys were “too busy” to come fishing. Blew the cobwebs out of the skis and went most of the way to Stewart Island to our rock where we caught plenty of good sized bluecod in a couple of hours. Forecast looking good for Sunday. Bet the boys will come this time after seeing what they missed out on




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    Bloody flat for foveaux. Good timing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CATLINS HUNTER View Post
    Bloody flat for foveaux. Good timing.
    Wasn't actually that nice mate, easterly chop. forecast was better than what it was. We've hit it oily flat a couple of times and are over at Stewart Island in 30-40 minutes
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    Just back from spending the morning with the family up the able tasman. Flicked the longline in off the back of the islands.

    Went seal hunting....



    And mucking round on the beach...



    Picked up the longline....



    Got more than tea this time ...





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    I had a bit of an inspection of the stomach contents of those snapper.

    The usual...



    No matter if these fish are caught in the shallow or deep water they always seem to have crabs in their diet. Although some of today's ones look to be a hermit crab of some sort.

    The unusual....



    Looks to be a small scollop. This is a good sign for us here in tasman bay as our scollop fishery has had a hiding from all angles over the last few years. So @veitnamcam not only are they washing up on the beach at tahuna....the snapper are eating them!

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    Quote Originally Posted by kukuwai View Post
    I had a bit of an inspection of the stomach contents of those snapper.

    The usual...



    No matter if these fish are caught in the shallow or deep water they always seem to have crabs in their diet. Although some of today's ones look to be a hermit crab of some sort.

    The unusual....



    Looks to be a small scollop. This is a good sign for us here in tasman bay as our scollop fishery has had a hiding from all angles over the last few years. So @veitnamcam not only are they washing up on the beach at tahuna....the snapper are eating them!

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    Would make sense that they eat the smaller ones I guess....they'd probably have more trouble with the shell by time they are legal size tho I recon.

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    Took Tinny punt for a run as she hadn't been out for a while.
    Quick hour or so fish up to the top of the tide in the blind channel.



    Nothin big in there but the shortest fish is 31cm a few other pannies caught but released as a bit smaller and had no measure on the boat also a few more small Trevally released.



    Not bad going really for about a cup of premix.

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    Got home from work today & dad was sitting on the couch with a beer looking a bit buggered !

    He said " ive got a job for you"....
    This is what my job looked like





    Mum and dad had caught 10
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    Quote Originally Posted by kukuwai View Post
    Got home from work today & dad was sitting on the couch with a beer looking a bit buggered !

    He said " ive got a job for you"....
    This is what my job looked like





    Mum and dad had caught 10
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    Quote Originally Posted by veitnamcam View Post
    Depth?
    10m VC off the back of adele island

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    Dad was keen to get out this morning having heard plenty of snapper storys of late and @kukuwai had given me some good intelligence on the whereabouts of some closer fish so Dad picked me up on the way past.

    Deployed a longline then moved off and burlyed up....it was slow fishing for a start but at least we were not being inundated with shit fish.
    Finally one of the straylines took off and a nice snapper was boated.
    Dad and Uncle both caught and lost snapper on the flasher rigs (rod holder caught hook not set)
    A few gurnard and a xxl kahawai and then another nice snap on the strayline.
    A few snakes and sharks showed up and then we were out of burly.
    Picked up longline for some nice snaps and obligatory sharks and lost one good snapper as it broke the shitty old trace
    It should be fine it was only shallow and hooked corner mouth.



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    Nice catch @veitnamcam, good size eaters.
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