Thread: Under water spotlights/Spearing platform

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Ive seen photos of a sit on kayak done with strip lighting in the grooves...light shone down nicely...also old school spotlight bulbs in test tube with tight fitting bung to seal them off.
sure beats the nights of using possum spotlight hooked onto car battery sitting in drum dragged behind us as we walked the mudflats....light in water gets away from the reflection issue nicely.plenty of fully submersible LEDS around now...you should be able to spear successfully from existing seats by leaning overside.much more stable than standing.

Its super super stable,can walk around the topsides as is but thought vision and access to spear all the ground in front would be better standing.
Only gonna have a 2 foot strip on each side of the boat available to spear if sitting.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

I've obviously missed it, but set nets are banned? When did that happen? My grandmother would turn in her grave. She repaired nets as a young woman and netted flounder into her seventies.

Yep much to our disgust

https://www.fisheries.govt.nz/news-a...t-plan-review/

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Originally Posted by kiwijames

I've obviously missed it, but set nets are banned? When did that happen? My grandmother would turn in her grave. She repaired nets as a young woman and netted flounder into her seventies.

From the first of August they are banned in golden and Tasman bays, they have already been banned on most of both coasts of SI but not including estuaries. .....for whatever reason the ban we have received includes all our estuaries, the entire west coast of NI will be banned too but you guys get to keep your harbour and estuary netting.

Because Dolphins.

whats the ruling on rowing out the net and dragging it back in with ropes from the shore ? Or real 'old school' with a horse on the deep end of the drag net and two men on the beach - the old timers did this at Waikuku Beach. I have tied the top rope on a set net down to the lead line with strings so the net is only 300mm high so tying it down to 1 metre high would turn a set net into a passable drag with a bit of extra weight added

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

whats the ruling on rowing out the net and dragging it back in with ropes from the shore ? Or real 'old school' with a horse on the deep end of the drag net and two men on the beach - the old timers did this at Waikuku Beach. I have tied the top rope on a set net down to the lead line with strings so the net is only 300mm high so tying it down to 1 metre high would turn a set net into a passable drag with a bit of extra weight added

Pretty sure that is still allowed, but no set netting.

I have only done a bit of floundering, but I did find old school submersible lights better than the LED version, the more yellow colour of the light seemed to make the flounder easier to see.

We just use to walk the flats with an underwater light. Just for giggles I used my bow a few times. In the sixties my Dad use to hunt Kawhia harbour for flounder. They would drag a boat behind them to hold the flounder. They often got 100 at a time.

Originally Posted by Cigar

I have only done a bit of floundering, but I did find old school submersible lights better than the LED version, the more yellow colour of the light seemed to make the flounder easier to see.

I find the same for spotlighting animals....the new leds pick up eyes awesome but the old slightly yellow halogen is way better for actually Identifying the animal I found.... haven't done it for a long time tho.

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I gave some of yesterdays catch to dad for him and mum to have for dinner. He just sent a txt saying.....

"you guys have to find a way to keep catching them, they are bloody delicious!"

I read it out to the boys and the 4year old has solved the problem for us...

"yea dad we just need to put up a sign for the dolphins that says, don't come in the channel !"

If you devise an ingenious plan VC then let me know as i reckon I'm gunna need to set my boat up too

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

I gave some of yesterdays catch to dad for him and mum to have for dinner. He just sent a txt saying.....

"you guys have to find a way to keep catching them, they are bloody delicious!"

I read it out to the boys and the 4year old has solved the problem for us...

"yea dad we just need to put up a sign for the dolphins that says, don't come in the channel !"

If you devise an ingenious plan VC then let me know as i reckon I'm gunna need to set my boat up too

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you know that youngun isnt silly at all.........there is no reason they couldnt be sonically told to bugger off from some areas....you could have half a harbour that is unpleasant to thier senses and the other half as normal..and set netting still allowed.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

you know that youngun isnt silly at all.........there is no reason they couldnt be sonically told to bugger off from some areas....you could have half a harbour that is unpleasant to thier senses and the other half as normal..and set netting still allowed.

Trouble is that if it is unpleasant enough for the dolphins it will probably drive off the intended quarry too.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

you know that youngun isnt silly at all.........there is no reason they couldnt be sonically told to bugger off from some areas....you could have half a harbour that is unpleasant to thier senses and the other half as normal..and set netting still allowed.

Now, it we had something to drive off the meddling polies, ....

Right a plan is forming..... kinda.



From the front seat forward I can get a 1200 wide sheet on their and still have some bow clear for ankor etc.



Probably arsehole that passengers handle on the port side.

Make up a light cheap alloy frame that drops on top and locks in with ply on top and possibly handrails on sides that double as drop tubes for the spotlights..... Undecided on handrails, could be handy for leaning over and pearing into the murk or just totally unnecessary.

Very very roughly to scale.



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Just get a long spear, longer the better and quietly pole your self along. The light only needs to be one of those under water handhelds as you can then controll the depth and the direction of you beam. What I used to do years ago and it worked a real
treat. KISS.