Thread: Sea Temp

Sea temp off Canterbury was 17.9 deg , Thats what we would expect mid Summer . @ Mikee I picked up on your sea temps in Nelson bay 21.5 , I'm picking thats the same as us mid summer temp ?. My question is the rate its going could we expect to See the bigger Tuna & Mahi Mahi turn up ? . The way its going we could be in the low 20s in Canterbury & nelson in mid 20s ? . @Gibbo Whats your knowledge on fish species to Water temps ? . King fish are now a regular summer fish now Cant coast ( Mosty Rats but the odd big ones) . Last summer I herd of snappers(brim) being caught here too.

21c Already here in Pelorus Sound - wife swimming today
Plenty of Stingray in shallows already - so its def an early Summer
This Thread be an interesting follow !!

Yep 20-20.5 in the sounds where I have been the last few days.
Went for a snorkle with no wetsuit..
Top 2 feet of water warm as......below that temp dropped markedly!

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Yeah temps are up early this year. Marlin were caught off top of west coast last year. Some of the older commercial skippers think it wont be too long before some are caught in the outer tasman bay. A couple of years ago a Big Eye was caught along the boulder bank!!
Tuna were scarce down here last year and the commercial guys had a hard time finding the albies too, hope its better this year.
Personally I have never seen so many red cod in the bay.

El Niño is responsible. You can thank him at Globalwarming.com hash tag warmazfuk. Ha ha ha as if I know what a bloody hash tag is.

No idea on numbers but been plenty of people swimming on the island, months or two early for that carry on

Originally Posted by Rushy

El Niño is responsible. You can thank him at Globalwarming.com hash tag warmazfuk. Ha ha ha as if I know what a bloody hash tag is.

Its a tag you put on your hash stash so you know what it is

Originally Posted by mikee

Yeah temps are up early this year. Marlin were caught off top of west coast last year. Some of the older commercial skippers think it wont be too long before some are caught in the outer tasman bay. A couple of years ago a Big Eye was caught along the boulder bank!!
Tuna were scarce down here last year and the commercial guys had a hard time finding the albies too, hope its better this year.
Personally I have never seen so many red cod in the bay.

Ok we will swap you Red cod for snapper . Interesting what may turn up here over summer , a mate got amongst a big school of Tuna last summer off ChCh . Seen my first Kingie for the summer yesterday , thats a start

A guy I know is out on the water at the moment. Hit the water at 10am and he and his mate had landed a nice fat kingie each by midday.

If my fish finder temp can be believed it was 15°-16°c around Jacksons Bay last week.
I remember it being around 21-22 when diving mid summer down there but not sure what the average is.

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Filipino boys that worked for us last season were catching snapper surfcasting off Amberley Munsey

Originally Posted by Munsey

Ok we will swap you Red cod for snapper . Interesting what may turn up here over summer , a mate got amongst a big school of Tuna last summer off ChCh . Seen my first Kingie for the summer yesterday , thats a start

I've heard through the grapevine that kingies have been caught here for three weeks or so.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

I've heard through the grapevine that kingies have been caught here for three weeks or so.

Same , But that was from Someone peddling fishing gear at H&F .

Originally Posted by Munsey

Same , But that was from Someone peddling fishing gear at H&F .

My source was paddlers rather than peddlers.

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Originally Posted by gadgetman

My source was paddlers rather than peddlers.

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