Thread: Dipping a toe in the water.

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.