Thanks very much for a few of you tips Roofless & Smudge as put the combination together & hooked up on a nice Kingfish the other week !!

I should be out there doing it. A marlin due in at Te Toro pretty soon so I'll go weigh that!

18/2/2017 6:45 - 13:00

Great write up FlawOne!

We snuck out yesterday - went over the bar to 22m and did pretty well on the snapper.  Took 10 home ( returned a few more) and they were all a good size.  Nothing huge but average weight was around 3-4kg.  Heaps of kahawai a couple of small sharks but noticeably no gurnard.

A comedy of errors for us tonight. An after work session with a hopeful start time of 5.00pm turned into a much later start after we left the gas tank at home. And the tackle boxes.

Arron shot off home to get the missing stuff and returned with a guard missing off the trailer. dunno where it is now.

We fished in 5mfrom 6.00pm til 8.00pm and grabbed 17 snapper but all between 30 to 34cm so pretty small. Tasty they will be!

Arron snaffled a nice little bronzie and that was it. Pretty good catch of small pannies.

Yes it all sounds familar

Caught a 15kg kingi with my sea donkey on thursday,and only 2 small snaps. Maybe that's why there were bugger all snaps around that day. Heard of another guy catching 2 on the same day. First decent kingi for me. Smoking up now

I'm keen to hear the answer to this because it certainly used to be a thing. Done it a lot when we were kids 20 years ago. It's as easy as that, walk out at low tide and hand pick the scollaps

Nice ! !
Any trouble at the ramp ?
http://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/blatant-disregard-for-others-property_topic123512.html

Got out Saturday for the first time in ages, and headed over the coast for a days game fishing.  Managed to secure the services of some much more experienced crew in the form of Chris and Mike -thanks guys.  It all looked perfect on paper, and when we arrived at the ramp to see the smoke from the steel mill chimneys disappearing straight up into the sky it was a good sign.  The harbour was really flat all the way through, and it was a pretty easy bar crossing too.  Once we got out west the conditions were as good as I've ever seen it, hardly any swell, no wind and a beautiful sunny day.  Chris had word that catches during the week had been from 100m+ so we motored out to 80m before dropping the gear in and heading further out.  We couldn't believe the amount of bait in areas, with the surface absolutely teeming with tuna.  Several boats took the opportunity to fill up bait freezers.  Seemed like there should have been marlin feeding on all that bait, but we counted over a dozen boats there and no one found anything.  We ended up at about 130m out from the river before heading back North.  It was the busiest I've ever seen it out there, with boats everywhere.  As the day wore on the chat on the radio became very predictable and boring -one boat would call another and the conversation would be "how are you doing?"  with the reply "quiet here" -lost count of the number of times we heard that.  At least we weren't the only ones having a quiet time of it.  But with sea and weather conditions that good perhaps wanting some fish as well is asking too much.  As we trolled the gear back towards shore we got the only bit of excitement of the day when one of the lures got hit at the 45m mark.  Somewhat predictably it turned out to be a mako shark, which Mike released in truly expert fashion recovering lure and hook.  I suppose that was one way to get the gear cleared as we were about to bring it in anyway.  We heard of a couple of fish landed and one tagged, which given he number of boats didn't seem like very many.  On the plus side everything worked well, the various new gear I had set up over winter all went well, and the fish we did get hit a lure on the outrigger and the release clips all worked as they should.  I had been carefully watching fuel consumption as it was quite a long day and I've only got a 100 litre tank.  But in the end it was fine, setting out at 8.15am and landing back at the ramp at 6pm not having stopped all day burned 80 litres which I was happy with.