Thread: Short notice, Nelson Fishing trip Sat 9th Jan 2021

Epic day ..na even better than that ..got down the island had to wait for the flood in the pass ..so vcjr set the tone for the day with a solid 4lbs snapper..keith did the same by slaying spotties one after another on a 7/0 hook

So I heckled him and he presented me with my own safety knife, funny barstard

Caught some more brim ...got scorned by the skipper for tossing keepers back ...banter went next level ..you were scorned if you kept a fish or chucked it back ...

Tried jigging the north side of the pass ...saw one kingi boated ...tide turned flood pushed we search the banks and areas for fish ..krill were there again but nothing marking..an hour and half went by 6 boats jigging not a fish seen ..

Plan B cray diving ...the collective brains trust chose a mark ..bombed it ..took a while but got onto a handful ..barstard of a spot to get some out of, managed two ..got picked up by the boat to find the skipper had being busy with two nice snaps resting in the ice slurry .

Tried to an anchor on the mark ..not ideal with a cod invasion ...go out wide get some current VC advised ...nothing then spikies saw VC getting heckled.

Made the big move call to head for 40m that produced fish mid week for me ma n da ...burley down ..baits down...waiting waiting waiting , error error ..bang the spottie slayer turns snapper snatcher...then a few carrots , then just most of caught something respectable ...except some one was hogging the burley pot .


So after eviction from his preferred spot he continued to slay fish ...seemed it was his day , as he managed to wrangle a 15lb kingi on a dirty old piece squid @Shearer, no jigs required .

Weather was amazing went from slight to oily calm back to mild , company was simply fantastic , young folk fished ate and ate, napped, fished and were helpful as possible ...other shared an amazing day

Huge huge thank you to ScreamO..for talking us away sharing his boat ,company and humour with us ..to the rest of the folks young and middle aged thank you as well for the bullying yarns and amazing company ..