cirrus wrote: Good on you Kevin for dragging that drifting set net out. They can do alot of damage drifting around like that. Probably owned by someone who dosent know or dosent want to know that most of the Manukau is covered by a set net ban. Assume they didnt have name or contact detail on the floats. Pity about no fish. Fishing can be patchy this time of year.
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AlexRecurve wrote: Made the most of light winds yesterday, even though we couldn't cross the bar due to 4.5 metre swells. Opted instead to fish the harbour and chase down a kingi . . . . or two. Spent much of the morning trying to catch livebait which seems to be an essential, especially when the water is as murky as it is and stick-baits are not effective. Eventually ( after 3 hours or so ), we had enough in the tank and made out way to 'spot x' to fish the out-going tide. After numerous false starts when large sharks took the baits I hooked into a faster fish which put up a lively scrap and was clearly the right species - kingfish - but came in undersize. Did a couple more drifts before hooking into some slightly larger fish - 2, each going 10kg and each put up a great tussle. It always amazes me the strength of these fish! Great fun and a good start for the season. |
Steps wrote: Got to know the bottom end pretty well... Now Waiuku, got to start from scratch..with very different conditions currents , channels. Missus and I headed up to the bar entrance the other day. Couple drags for scallops, bit patchy but got a good feed on the way up. Then hooked into a little bay up past big bay, awesome back eddy. Hooked a big solid eel, neck was over 20" in circumference.. Put it back cause the smoker is not set up yet. Came home with a couple nice 'east coast' size pannies, curtosy of a few guys who came in after us.. Good old friendly chat. We did that a few times on the east coast but other than that never saw it in last 7yrs. People are very different down this way. Oh well big learning curve for the harbour and crossing both bars. If anyone is looking for crew, pm me, espec crossing the bars. |
Steps wrote: Now we have moved home and the Manuakau /west coast to be our hunting grounds rather than East coast bottom end/ Firth.. A whole new ball game/ learning curve. ..... |
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