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Topic: The Great and Little Barriers this W/end
Posted By: Damo
Subject: The Great and Little Barriers this W/end
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 1:29pm

Well... here we go again... but.... this time no wind or gale warnings - Saaaweeeeet!

Kicked off out of Gulf Harbour about 4pm friday nite and enjoyed the ambienceWink on our way out to GB. Slipped into Nagels to check the mailLOL and collect some baits. Yeah.... these were the go....again and again and .....not a bloody sp in sight - bait fishing is where its atLOL
 
 
polished off a few bowls of soup and hit the hay in eager anticipation of the morning shot...
 
Sunrise....
 
and on a flat sea it starts..hook up after hook up and a steady stream of our mates thumping tails on the deck..
 
 
zzzzzzzz click - ooooooooh....
 
 
tap tap tap zzzzzzzz - click......whack...feel the steel!
 
 
KOJAK and OF2FISH working the bricks too..... field testing eh boysLOL
 
our mates....
 
 
 and the bins begin to fill with fat snapps to 6 kg...
 
 
after a wee dry spell and a bit of snapper snooping we swing into a decent work up . Dolphins, whales and gannets doing the thingBig%20smile
 
 and yip... ITS ON!
 
the boys were happyClap
 
 
even a thoughful look here and thereConfused close those eyes! We dont want to see how red theys isLOL
 
 
the day went on and the bins got filled but as the evening starts to set in up turns a frostfish in the melee. We got 2 of these..YUM!
 
 
Hows this for a sunset...wicked! Even better when you're thereWink
 
Back to check the mail and fill up on baits and beer, hit the hay and up early for a prospect out in 75m.
 
Get out there and its dolphins everywhere but in small pods and sparodic work ups. Really fast moving and not really fishable so we move onto the "traffic jam reef" a quick hello to these dodgy mofos and then it's off to greener pastures after only a couple of 5 kg fish and not much else..
 
Los toros
 
Hit the brick with fresh slimies and macks and its on again..
 
Double hook ups...
 
triple hook ups....
 
solid line pulling snapps...with smashed livie hanging out of its gob! Did I mention that bait fishing is where it atLOL Snapper Candy!
 
Kick rse whacks in 60m...some had to stopped with the ole "hand drag knob" approach - clamp down on that mutha! Feel the burn!
 
 
this was a solid hook up too.....
 
 
a few tense moments....zzzzzzzzzzzz thump thump zzzzzzzzzzz oh yeah!
 
sweeeeet...another line weight fish.
 a few other forum members getting on the drift line in shocking conditions.. Hookaman and Jugsta on the good ship Sea Esta
They got a few gooduns too but failed to produce evidence so yet another tall story and a few rounds to fork outLOL
 
The day wore on and the bins filled.- mmm that is every bin we had filled with good snapps and the odd extra. Species list this trip:
Snapper
Rat Kings
Hapuka
Terahiki
Blue Cod
Frost fish
Parrot Fish
G Daddy Hapuka
and the plethora of reef fish like ya Wrasses, ******* Cod, Scorps etc etc
Nearly home time - we full.
 
You can't catch em in the office or from the couch - get ya butt out here its going offLOL
 
I'll post a you tube clip if it ever lets me upload it...hell work up!
 
 Damo - 021 2446346
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Posted By: Espresso
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 1:40pm
Clap  Yeah - now that's a fishing report!
 
Live bait - hm, interesting concept Smile


Posted By: Tomsta06
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 1:42pm
Awesome Job Damo...... Thumbs%20Up
 
You realise a good skippers job isn't done until he's filleted all the catch though aye....? LOL


Posted By: wetdream
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 1:45pm
I wana go again.................. as usual lots of smilesClap, looked like fisho heaven out there.
 
 


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Posted By: H00K
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 1:46pm
Finally got out as you saw. Not the same quantity but good quality. Will try to post pick tonight so it will be your shout at tent.


Posted By: Jordo
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 1:52pm
Awesome stuff Damo, as usual.


Posted By: deacs
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 1:53pm
Gregg, i think its time to start planning another trip, count me in looks like we were a few weeks early for the fish to show up again! Damo how big were the puka? did you target them or by catch while snapper hunting?
Another awesome trip for your clients again Thumbs%20Up


Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:00pm
Awesome result Damo. The smiles on the faces say it all.

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Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:02pm
shot bruva love...shot!!

Originally posted by Espresso Espresso wrote:

Clap
 Live bait - hm, interesting concept Smile


just imagine if he'd used the softbait that claims to be 400x better than live bait.....by my calcultions Damo would need space for around 2394 more Icey-Teks...Evil%20Smile


Posted By: Bushpig
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:06pm
Where are the Gurnard? Gurnard fishing is where its at 

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Posted By: Capnnod
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:06pm
I've gotta get north again and into the'big fish' territory. Thanks for the motivation, well done!


Posted By: Phats
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:14pm
Man, way to make a guy feel stink Cry

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Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:14pm
Deacs - puka were small - we targetted them but got more snapps than puka- probably wont bother gain till october..
 
400X more BS .....bait fishing is where its atLOL Kezz (hows the round thing comin along bro)
 
 


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Posted By: jugsta
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:26pm
evidence cumin Damo.prepare to Cry shout in the tent


Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:29pm
6kg to beat ya henchman!
 
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Posted By: Phats
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:38pm
Originally posted by deepsea deepsea wrote:

 
400X more BS .....bait fishing is where its atLOL Kezz (hows the round thing comin along bro)
 
 
 
He needs more content Wink


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Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:46pm
Happy to  help out in any way.

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Posted By: Boulder
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 2:53pm
As am ISmile

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Posted By: mozz
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 3:00pm

More happy punters, onya Damo



Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 3:02pm
wardrobe, make up, fluffers......cast and crew on set!


Posted By: Moocha
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 3:11pm
On ya Damo  more quality action...salivating down here in Wellywood looking at all that action you guys have been into this weekend EmbarrassedThumbs%20Up


Posted By: of2fsh
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 4:32pm
Originally posted by Kezza Kezza wrote:

wardrobe, make up, fluffers......cast and crew on set!
 
Fluffers LOLLOLLOL wont find many volunteers on here..
 
 
 
Good work Damo,told ya bait fishing is where its at LOLLOL...looks like the crew were on a piss trip,beers in hand at 7.30am...thats a dedicated crew from a local bar for ya...Wink... keep up the awesome reports and please have the livie tank full and waiting for me on friday avo LOLLOLLOL...bait fishings where its at next weekend


Posted By: billfish
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 8:04pm
Ah ha!.  Another brother fights his way back from the Dark Side.  Welcome back to the 'BLOOD' Damo.   Thought I'd lost you there for a while to the satanic forces of the soft plastics - I guess you would say you never left. 
 
The aptly named 'Evil' will prove a hard nut to crack with his little shop of horrors and wall of shame.  As will Beelzebub Boulder with dinky little bass reel setup.  I feel it my duty to take them hunting for bear where there's no place for their misbegotten ways.
 
Damo, just how close-in round the back can we get that tub of yours.  I feel a special deprogramming session is required\ to free our bainwashed sp crazed brothers from their present obsession.  Wink  I kid of course.  SPs have there place ---- in hell.        


Posted By: Peter da Squid
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 8:09pm
hehehe good sh*t Bill you just gotta laugh!

another good lot of freight Damo and Crew, some of those broom sticks have come up solidThumbs%20Up

saw you guys coming home south of flat yeaterday


Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 8:20pm
classic stuff Bill.....Thumbs%20Up.....count me in on such a trip if you are remotely serious.


Posted By: "H"
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 8:29pm
Good stuff again Damo...Thumbs%20Up..... That bait stuff realy does it ha,LOL
Beware of Hookamans fish, saw the scaleWink


Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 9:00pm
bugger .....6.01 was it - shssshh dont tell him!
 
mmm so where where we.. oh thats right bait
 
Lets go! 


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Posted By: of2fsh
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 9:14pm
Originally posted by deepsea deepsea wrote:

bugger .....6.01 was it - shssshh dont tell him!
 
mmm so where where we.. oh thats right bait
 
Lets go! 
 
Got 20kgs pillies and 10 of squid under $100 bucks...for got how cheap that stuff was compared to s/bs......roll on friday


Posted By: browndog
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 9:24pm
looks like u hit spot x again damo great looking fish
I dont know if you can trust those 2 on sea esta they look pretty dodgy
have decided that working on the weekends sucks  so if you need a decky back count me in
will catch up with u at the tent ;might have to be a nuetral judge[for a small fee].SmileSmile


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Posted By: browndog
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 9:28pm
ps blood  and guts rule


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Posted By: Boulder
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 9:33pm
Originally posted by billfish billfish wrote:

 
The aptly named 'Evil' will prove a hard nut to crack with his little shop of horrors and wall of shame.  As will Beelzebub Boulder with dinky little bass reel setup.  I feel it my duty to take them hunting for bear where there's no place for their misbegotten ways.
 
Damo, just how close-in round the back can we get that tub of yours.  I feel a special deprogramming session is required\ to free our bainwashed sp crazed brothers from their present obsession.  Wink  I kid of course.  SPs have there place ---- in hell.        
 
LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLovely piece of creative writing wongnozleLOLLOLBig%20smile
WinkNow remind me just how many did you get on the blood on SundayWink


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Posted By: Ski
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 10:01pm
onya damo ,didnt bump into ya out there but then ya wouldnt have wanted to see my white ass goin up and downski!ps did ya find the jacks worked better than the slimeys?

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Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 7:15am
slime did the crime rootskiLOL
 
Im all ears Billybloodbrutha.......
 
small fee brown dog...?! I know your fees mate .......23 packs of fags and 2 crates of big botts...still that means we get a seat eachLOLLOL
 
a hundy eh wayne... now that would be 9 packs of gulp which is 54 baitsLOLLOL


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Posted By: billfish
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 7:59am
Got to be midweek right Damo?  No weekend holes between now and kingdomcome right?


Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 8:07am
late october at least
 
midweek is best anyhoo - place to ourselvesWink


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Posted By: snap
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 8:43am
Awsome as usual damo.
 
We were getting slimies on Sat off Nth Rangi (hundreds of the buggers under the boat).
 
No big snaps to gobble them down tho!Cry


Posted By: Accident Prone
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 9:34am
Awesome stuff Damo, is bait where its at?


Posted By: H00K
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 9:37am
see you in tent Damo
 


Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 9:46am
yeah so you can buyLOLLOL dodgy bludy longliner
stop following us roundLOLLOL
Jugsta said last night that he told you it was 6 just to make you fee
l good after having to go home to do the ironingWacko
 
Not a bad fish though must sayThumbs%20Up looks like the sort of fish that would eat a bait.....?


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Posted By: H00K
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 9:58am
headless pillies were doing the job out there
have to say Jugsta dropped a bigger one as he left his Kojak in your garage bet he will be collecting this week.


Posted By: jugsta
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 10:14am
tents lookin good .oh ye of little faith damo.Even had to gill and gut it for him .he couldnt see past his grin and lion red can


Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 10:41am
you 2 are Clown
Tuck his raincoat into his leggings for him would yaLOL
 
So its official....
 
ITS YOUR SHOUTWacko


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Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 10:49am
well done Damo, certainly know how to put the punters onto a fish or two. we must do another one of those forum evenings again.

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Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 10:59am
bugger the evenings - lets do a big day outWink

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Posted By: Phats
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 11:18am
Which reminds me....Shoreboys Elitist *cough cough* I mean Xmas do needs to be booked

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Posted By: Bushpig
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 11:22am
Originally posted by Phats Phats wrote:

Which reminds me....Shoreboys Elitist *cough cough* I mean Xmas do needs to be booked


Its only August Confused

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Posted By: KeenAs
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 11:40am
 ..  ands it's only the end of Bushie. ..  where are the months going. . .
 
Wasn't Mozz meant to organise one. . . .  ErmmWink


Posted By: Bushpig
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 11:55am
Originally posted by KeenAs KeenAs wrote:

 ..  ands it's only the end of Bushie. ..  where are the months going. . .
 
Wasn't Mozz meant to organise one. . . .  ErmmWink


What are you on about now, stupid? Lay off the drugs and you may make more sense


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Posted By: mozz
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 11:58am
yes he was


Posted By: KeenAs
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 12:12pm
ahhhh. . .  "wasn't Mozz meant to organise one?"
 
I'm sorry Bushie, i really am. ..  i guess i just didn't realise that so few words could confuse you... ...
 
 


Posted By: Bushpig
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 12:13pm
Originally posted by KeenAs KeenAs wrote:

 
I'm sorry Bushie, i really am. ..  i guess i just didn't realise that so few words could confuse you... ...
 
 


Only when they come from a blithering idiot


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Posted By: jugsta
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 7:27am
big bottles for life damo . piss n sits


Posted By: browndog
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 7:26pm

i allready have the creates fill of big botts for us to sit on in my garage

just havto get the smokes [could get them off boulder]TongueTongue

are we right for sunday damo looking forward to it ;
need to dunk the feet in salty water again[ been at least two weeksCoolCool


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Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 7:36pm
on like donkey pong

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Posted By: Peter da Squid
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 7:46pm
you smile in those photos now dog


Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 7:49pm
and shuck my scollies on the way inLOL

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Posted By: mozz
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 7:55pm
20's on sat morning would be good damoBig%20smile


Posted By: browndog
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2007 at 5:35am
will try io rember to smile squid next time
have you been useing your fab bearly from the nite before on any of your reasent trips squid or are you saving it up for when you are out with us againCryCry
good luck with the boys on fri and sat damo donot let them leed you astrayWackoWacko


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Posted By: Peter da Squid
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2007 at 9:33am
saving up, next hurl should be a goodyDeadLOL


Posted By: courtfishing
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2007 at 4:39pm
nice fish hookaman well done my son will get ya a short at the tent
 
grate action shoots damo thats fishing at its best well done
 
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Posted By: courtfishing
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2007 at 12:25pm
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