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Haha great chat boys.

I two have the helix, almost 8 years old and starting to do some weird things. Temp went ages ago but more recently the charts have started leaving random snail trails everywhere. This is annoying as I like go back to drift the same line when I come across a few fish. Never really used the sounder properly as such other than nice to know depth. Way to much technology on this thing for me but has done the distance with little to no care taken other than the Rob Fort cover.
Looking like I might need a new one soon..... I'd rather spend my money on IPA though!
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My lowrance is nearly 17 yrs old on my yak. All I have ever done is rinse with warm water and a little soap powder , dry in hot water cupboard , and spray with c r c .It can swim better than me !.
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Conditions were a bit ordinary today, there were a couple of squalls and a few showers, but the swell died down so there was an opportunity to get after some gurnard. 
The easterly was over 10kts further out, but it was like a mill pond close to the beach, so that helped coming back in.
The dropper rig did the work on the gurnies, and I had a stray line out, which got me a very small bronzie, a school shark and half a dozen snapps around 32cm all of which were released.
I might have done better had I gone to my out going tide spot after the tide turned, but the wind and rain were making it hard work, so I just got a few gurnies and got the hell out of there...maybe next week will be calmer...hehe. 

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Very artistic presentation of the gurns.
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'Oh their wings are so pretty, can you put them in a circle with their wings out?'...suppose so.
 Dragging the yak up the hill yesterday I heard a shot, thought a car had backfired, one of my yak tyres exploded, bang, got the wheel from Bunnings, the tyre and tube are in tatters, too much pressure I suppose, probably not due to high speed.
There's another good yak day next week, I should be good to go by then...and I'll bring the right bait.
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 I didn't notice many yakkers out this morning, the wind and wash were not much fun, you could've shared in the  experience at home by putting your feet in a fridge and your head in a washing machine, that would cover most of it.
 There were some nice spells in the afternoon though where I was able to do some soft baiting, and it was medicine, I even caught a few fish.
 There is a plague of small snapper and sharks, but at least most of the sharks released themselves. My fish finder battery clapped out, so I was picking spots I like and  moving when I caught too many snapper.
Saturday July 15 looks good for the yak, so I'll put that in my calendar.
 
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Nice work - what sort of depth are you getting the carrots? I was out off arkles in 14m this arvo and we got 8 gurnard  i think, and about 10 x 34cm snapper. and  few decent kahawai.
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Good effort getting out Tele, and it sounds like a good haul was had.
 I didn't look at my sounder today...well I did but it had a flat battery, but 
I like to catch gurnard at 10m, one of my out going tide spots is 15m, another spot is 8m, as you well know, when they're in they are here and there...
I follow the good folk advice of moving when I'm catching too many snapper, of course you can catch a snap and a gurnard on the same rig, but it's fun landing on a good patch of carrots and harvesting them in peace, without interjections from agro little snapps.
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Yeah I should confess I was on a REALLY BIG kayak, made by Ramco and measuring around 6m with 140HP on the back...

We certainly were plagued by small snapper but a pretty decent haul in the end. I am hanging out for a paddle but the weather has been so terrible lately.
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I could see the bottom a few metres down this morning, I was surprised at how clear it was, there was a breeze but the water was flat out to 1km. I expected the wind to drop a few knots at 9:00am but it picked up and the swell increased.
 I was having fun over a lively patch of mud, little snaps and gurnard were taking my Daiwa jig on every drop. 
When the wind picked up to 15kts I  headed closer in to anchor and fish my gurnard rig, it was white caps and fish or no white caps and no fish, but even in close it was gusting to 25kts and wrestling the paddle out of my hand, I don't mind the cold and rain but squalls are hard work. I took a few gurnard for a neighbour, and a couple of snapps that swallowed my hooks, a calm day would be nice:)
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How is the condition on the snapper you are getting off the bays lately? Almost every one of those snapper from last week were in really poor condition - slimy white flesh. I think only 1 was in good nick.

The gurnard were all in good condition, as were the kahawai.

Really confusing as the snapper we are getting over the foul in a bit more current are in great condition!
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These two snapps I took were fine, but white flesh is a problem down my way, perhaps the ratio for me is  one in eight are skinny and white, there are a lot of malnourished snapps, if that is what the problem is. 
I won't take skinny snapper, unless they swallow my gurnard recurves and are brown bread.
They few gurnard I took yesterday were in nice condition, all were well fed, but I threw back three fish with a skin virus, lymphocytis I think, usually I'd catch just one spotted fish in a session. 
The stomach contents of the gurnard were the same as the snapps yesterday, small crabs and shrimps. One snapp had a small lobster in its stomach, it had front claws and a big flat tail, dunno? The bigger gurnard had a large prawn in there, and crabs, there are a couple of tasty patches of mud they are both fond of.
But God it was hard work paddling and fishing in the 15-25kt winds yesterday, still it was a chance to fish and get some exercise, Trotsky used to fish for exercise...I wonder if he could have fixed the damage commercial fishing is doing to the gulf...still unsure who to vote for on this issue.
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That would be mantis shrimp

https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/mantis-shrimps-kaipara_topic79431.html

https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/wtf-is-this_topic68793_page1.html

Other prawns, have seen them around the piles of wharves, heaps of them, use baitfish landing nets to sweep them up, around 2in long like the stuff you get in the shops, good eating
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Thanks BB it's good to know what they're called, it was a decent sized Mantis shrimp in the snapps stomach.
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I went for a paddle this morning and had my yearly chat with the fishery officers, they were very personable chaps, and they had 400hp on the back of their speed boat, so I wasn't going to do a runner...
I anchored over a  patch of mud and caught some gurnard, and a few unlucky snapps that swallowed the recurve hooks...I  prefer soft baiting, but  gurnard prefer a  chunk of pillie on a hook, so I go with that. 
 When I was done gurnard fishing I drifted around the rocks at low tide, heading towards Kennedy Park, I didn't catch any fish, but it was very peaceful and beautiful. 
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Havent posted in a while here.
I bought a Hobie kayak about couple of month back and finally took it out last weekend. Fishing was tough but managed to land a nice snapper on Zman 5inch . Est 16-17 lbs, released.
Was a great scrap and be able to chase the fish with pedal drive




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Very nice Dmitriy!
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Tank!
and I’m not talking about the Hobie
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Nice one D, been a while since Ive been up to that spot. Like the new yak too mate.
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