Todays Fish
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: Landbased & Surfcasting
Forum Description: From rocks or beaches, here's the place for the landbased fishos to share information
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Printed Date: 10 Jun 2026 at 1:51am
Topic: Todays Fish
Posted By: cal25
Subject: Todays Fish
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 9:00pm
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Well, me and my fiancees bro managed to get out for a few hours today ( he needed the fresh air!)
arrived around 12.30, and started chucking in my home brewed burley (oats, bread, mashed up sanma and sea water, ladeled out) and a bomb.
immediately a pod of 4 dolphins turned up, about 5m from the rock....played around for a good 30 mins, swimming back and forth....awesome to see them so close.
they finally went, and 1000s of baitfish turned up - all good signs for me burley!
Frankie was 1st up with a reasonable KY....followed by a stinky eel!
I was working hard to keep the berley going and hadnt noticed anything on my rod....spebt 10 mins watching it....bends over and im in....reel to sent hook and immediately it starts taking line....ended up with a good snap just shy of 5lbs
frank had a few screeching runs but both reefed him......i caught summin I had no idea what it was (maybe Stargazer? can you eat em??)
was a fat soft ugly bugger! gut hooked, but think we got him back to the sea OK....all in all a great day out!
dolphins, eels, snaps, KY and a weird fish....cant ask for more than that!
some pics:
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Replies:
Posted By: Kenshin
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 9:12pm
Nice fish Cal and great rep cal..  Good on ya to take the 'bayaw' out!I kinda like your cigie on the lips shot!  Yup stargazer, caught them once.. but never even touched it. Heard some ppl say its good eating. ------------- Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger. –Herbert Hoover |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 9:17pm
yep stargazer nice eating fish good you let it go though  well done on snap looks like you had a good day .should take the fag out of your mouth though before photo's  ------------- woman who say they are equal to men ,show lack of Ambition . |
Posted By: cal25
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 9:20pm
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hahaha, agreed!
mind you, it adds to the old 'fisherman image'
nah, my excuse was the rocks were wet - see 1/2 the ciggie is soaked!! haha
lovely day out there too (ended up at the place I said Baz, deacs wasnt going till later).
1st time ive had success there.....
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Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 9:26pm
should of tryed a livie out from there that ky looked just about right size too..ha ha next time ------------- woman who say they are equal to men ,show lack of Ambition . |
Posted By: cal25
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 9:27pm
| yeah so ive read...perfect size it was too....plenty of foul for they beasts to catch you up in tho! |
Posted By: Kenshin
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 9:29pm
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heard some JD's getting caught up there on sprats livie under a float but not KY eating torpedos. Worth a try though.
------------- Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger. –Herbert Hoover |
Posted By: cal25
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 9:38pm
couldve had 1000 rods out, as they were EVERYWHERE
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Kenshin wrote:Posted By: deacs
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 10:02pm
Nice one Cal, i was round by the island to start with off Mahurangi, a few asian guys came out there aswell and looked like they got a couple but couldn't be bothered with the snags and wind (couldn't stray line) so went back and fished off the rocks on the left hand side of the beach, caught two snapper mid 30 and mid 40 so a good feed, plenty of bites small snapper of jack macs probably, threw in some bait and had jack macs and piper at my feet really should have put out a livie but it was getting a little dark, definately the chance of a jd or two, still a nice day out 
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Posted By: Ryda70
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2009 at 10:46am
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looks like a nice day out Cal...great report and photos....
gonna take you a long time and a few packets to smoke a snapper that way tho bro!!!!
cheers mate!
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Posted By: cal25
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2009 at 11:34am
Oi, let me worry about the cooking side....you need to concentrate on actually hooking them!!
thats the fish.....not the RH workers!!
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Posted By: Ryda70
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2009 at 11:46am
haha...truebro....the RH would be a foul hook....and like that snapper on Saturday barely legal...so like that snapper she's goin back!!!...
shoulda known better than to take my mind off the fishing!!!
haha...Saturday then....you're on!
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Posted By: cal25
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2009 at 10:07am
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hey all,
heres a wee vid we took out there....some of the dolphins....more under 'more from callum62'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvS89Oa52dg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvS89Oa52dg
cheers
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Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2009 at 11:54am
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now if you had a livie out then could of been real fun ------------- woman who say they are equal to men ,show lack of Ambition . |