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bloody hell, have I finally found the 200mm+ paua? Say it's so!Clap
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island bay is a reserve?
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So? 220mm!
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Isn't Rat Island AKA Tapu te Ranga? AKA part of the South Coast Marine Reserve?

220mm Paua is a monster - sell the shell and pay off your mortgage.
 
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Conditions were perfect today at least 6-7 metre viz.
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i went for a dive yesterday and got a 230mm paua, and an 8 kg cray. i was just swimming back and saw a 5m bronzie, shat meself ,and dropped both of them. sorry no pics
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Had a swim near the boatramp round from moa point (no idea of the name). Followed the weedline round the bay down to 7-8m. First dive it was clear that 1. I'm seriously underweighted and was like a bobbing cork and 2. that my cold from last week has not cleared out since I couldn't equalise properly. GREAT. Swam round on the surface and saw a tiny cod who wanted to eat my flopper in the shallows and a small blue moki. No other life seen at all, area didn't look promising so close in, next time will get out deeper.
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Evil%20SmileEvil%20SmileEvil%20Smile  ha, no worrys omebic, seriously i am keen to see this monster cray though.
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Evil%20SmileEvil%20SmileEvil%20Smile  ha, no worrys omebic, seriously i am keen to see this monster cray though.
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Evil%20SmileEvil%20SmileEvil%20Smile  ha, no worrys omebic, seriously i am keen to see this monster cray though.
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Hey does anyone know the time difference between the Wellington tides and the tides at Sinclair heads? just cant seem to get the devils gate at slack tide.
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That bit of water is influenced by both the pacific and tassy oceans, good luck getting that right
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8kg cray...hed nearley tow you under imagine the size of the tail that would be such an aewsome pic!just wondering if anyone has any idea of viz on  south coast Wairarapa ? cheers
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Vis should be good, a while since the last southerly, some calm days, northerly forecast tomorrow. I will be out in the morning. High tide for wellington 2.10pm, I'd imagine the salps will be around as well.
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I didn't grab it, as it is a reserve. I found the paua by chance, there was no indication of a 'nest' and it seemed to be only one around (that's probably why it survived this long).
O.k. before I receive more grilling, I couldn't get my tapemeasure out (?), so I used bodyparts (!) and 22cm was the minimum Big%20smile length! No seriously - it was the extended length from the tip of my thumb to the tip of my middle finger and this turned out to be 22cm.
I know it sound odd and the max length is supposed to be 19 but I believe in 8kg Crays as well.

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Originally posted by Cuzza Cuzza wrote:

Hey does anyone know the time difference between the Wellington tides and the tides at Sinclair heads? just cant seem to get the devils gate at slack tide.
 
I found this the other day, it may be of use to the geographically disadvantaged members of this forum
 
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just shot out to Ngawi (sp) Wairarapa...... managed half a dozen butterfish and a nice Moki would say weight is at least 5kg-6kg will upload a pic soon..so was a really good morning viz was great up to 8M..any one else get out? 
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You get harrassed by the seals? Did you dive north or south of Ngawi?

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kapiti today was green as.a colour change at the boulder bank corner but twas only around 5m vis and past snapper rocks was surfable swell. what happpened?must be the big tides at the mo?
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