Thread: Dipping a toe in the water.

If the toe you are dipping in is growing on your left hand you will fit right in.If its growing out of your forehead you will be resticted to conversations with the greymouth crowd.

Originally Posted by sneeze

If the toe you are dipping in is growing on your left hand you will fit right in.If its growing out of your forehead you will be resticted to conversations with the greymouth crowd.

Meanwhile the Nelson crowd are still learning how to use sticks to dip for termites, and have a strange fondness for hanging tyres. Any coversation with them is just, limited.

Originally Posted by R93

Meanwhile the Nelson crowd are still learning how to use sticks to dip for termites, and have a strange fondness for hanging tyres. Any coversation with them is just, limited.

Its Marlborough today, can you tell me more about theses sticks?

Originally Posted by sneeze

Its Marlborough today, can you tell me more about theses sticks?

Where from in Marlborough sneeze. Wife and I lived on a Yacht out in the Sounds for about 5 years. A Damned good population of pigs you've got down that way. Not bad deer population in parts either. Woke up one fine morning on a mooring in Maori Bay, there was a hell of a frost down on the flats and buggar me if there wernt a mob of deer all standing out on the cockle beds catching the first rays of sun that hit the valley. I guess from the mist, the water was walmer than the outside air temperature as well.

Sat there and just watched them from the cockpit with a coffee in hand. They were nice animals, good size. Hinds yearlings and Fawns.

We ran a few Pest Control courses out of Picton back then

Originally Posted by Scribe

Where from in Marlborough sneeze. Wife and I lived on a Yacht out in the Sounds for about 5 years. A Damned good population of pigs you've got down that way. Not bad deer population in parts either. Woke up one fine morning on a mooring in Maori Bay, there was a hell of a frost down on the flats and buggar me if there wernt a mob of deer all standing out on the cockle beds catching the first rays of sun that hit the valley. I guess from the mist, the water was walmer than the outside air temperature as well.

Sat there and just watched them from the cockpit with a coffee in hand. They were nice animals, good size. Hinds yearlings and Fawns.

We ran a few Pest Control courses out of Picton back then

About 20mins by fizz boat from where you saw the deer.Pigs have been a bit thin on the ground around this way latley which is a bit unusual.Still the odd deer showing up and still the odd poacher.

Originally Posted by sneeze

Its Marlborough today, can you tell me more about theses sticks?

You are being all humble Sneeze, I bet you have one all carved and its your favorite. I can sense it with my thumb!

Scribe, have you ever caught snapper on the Picton side? Bay of many Coves?

Originally Posted by R93

You are being all humble Sneeze, I bet you have one all carved and its your favorite. I can sense it with my thumb!

Scribe, have you ever caught snapper on the Picton side? Bay of many Coves?

I had a thumb once but it got caught in the rope the tyre hangs from, the termites got it the end. sure could have used a stick.

Originally Posted by R93

You are being all humble Sneeze, I bet you have one all carved and its your favorite. I can sense it with my thumb!

Scribe, have you ever caught snapper on the Picton side? Bay of many Coves?

Sad to say R93 though I tried to catch snapper many places in Pelorus and Queen Charlotte but I only ever caught two, both up near Jackson's in the Queen Charlotte. I had to become a blue cod man to my great disappointment.

I ever there was a greedy, easy to catch, without any class fish, its one of them.

I used to like to be on anchor or on a mooring early enough to enjoy a spot of evening fishing. A couple of hours till dark, this was my time of the day to enjoy.
You cant enjoy catching blue cod though. You bait up and before the bait has even hit the bottom you have got a blue cod. Bait up again, the bait never hits the bottom again and I have got more fish than the wife and I can eat.

Total fishing time 5 minutes.

I must tell you a story, when we left the Sounds and sailed North up the East Coast to complete a Circumnavigation of the North Island, the first chance to have a go at the snapper came when we snuggled up out of the wind in a cove for the night for a bit of a rest. It was only a little bitty cove on Slipper Island off Tairua/Whangamata Coast. I had been telling the Wife all day how she had forgotten what fun it was to catch snapper and how good they were to eat. Well the anchor went down in this little cove followed shortly after by the baited line. It was down for only a few seconds when I could tell the bait was snatched and swallowed by a decent sized fish. I bawled at the Wife you better come up topsides and see this snapper that I am bringing up.


I swear though this bloody thing on my line must have been following us for days. It was the last thing I expected, it was a good sized blue cod maybe 5 pounds, almost black in colour coming up through the clear water to the boat, bless them and their glutton like ways.

I have only ever caught a handful of blue cod in my life in the North Island. It certainly was the last fish I expected to catch on the Coromandel.

Ya gota wonder eh Scribe, bloody funny.
I have done a bit of fishing in the Bay of many coves and have seen a snapper while diving for scolly's. I have a mate that has a batch across from the one I stay at and he talks about the snapper like its an everyday thing. He is a better fisherman than me no doubt. Just wondering if there was a knack to them on the Picton side.
I dont have to many troubles picking up a feed of them on the Havlock side.

Damn it sneeze. I posted answers to your questions but I dont know where they have gone now.

Kenepuru Sneeze, I guess you know it well. We spent a little time in there mostly to pick up passengers from the North Island when we were out cruising Pelorus, Durville, French Pass area.

We left the Sounds and cruised North for the last time sometime in late 2002.

I was in Kenepuru a couple of years back. We were there to spread the ashes of one of our soldiers that served with us in Vietnam.

We boarded a boat at Havelock and travelled into the Kenepuru. None of us knew where we were heading but some of us I guess had a sort of premonition. We spread his ashes over the waters at Orchard Bay. Do you know Orchard Bay or the Orchard Family Sneeze????.

Originally Posted by Scribe

Damn it sneeze. I posted answers to your questions but I dont know where they have gone now.

Kenepuru Sneeze, I guess you know it well. We spent a little time in there mostly to pick up passengers from the North Island when we were out cruising Pelorus, Durville, French Pass area.

We left the Sounds and cruised North for the last time sometime in late 2002.

I was in Kenepuru a couple of years back. We were there to spread the ashes of one of our soldiers that served with us in Vietnam.

We boarded a boat at Havelock and travelled into the Kenepuru. None of us knew where we were heading but some of us I guess had a sort of premonition. We spread his ashes over the waters at Orchard Bay. Do you know Orchard Bay or the Orchard Family Sneeze????.

Your reply came through just fine, you will have a new messsage in your inbox now

Originally Posted by Scribe

Damn it sneeze. I posted answers to your questions but I dont know where they have gone now.

Kenepuru Sneeze, I guess you know it well. We spent a little time in there mostly to pick up passengers from the North Island when we were out cruising Pelorus, Durville, French Pass area.

We left the Sounds and cruised North for the last time sometime in late 2002.

I was in Kenepuru a couple of years back. We were there to spread the ashes of one of our soldiers that served with us in Vietnam.

We boarded a boat at Havelock and travelled into the Kenepuru. None of us knew where we were heading but some of us I guess had a sort of premonition. We spread his ashes over the waters at Orchard Bay. Do you know Orchard Bay or the Orchard Family Sneeze????.

Your not Graeme are you? and who wrote the book.If you are one of your team works in Napier i.e. Hardie.