How has the fishing been?
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Topic: How has the fishing been?
Posted By: Michael Jenkins
Subject: How has the fishing been?
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2010 at 12:33am
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How have things been going during summer so far in the waikato river
system/lakes north of huntly? The rainfall has been pretty low in the
catchment for a while now, also the water temp should be up, does that
make the carp go lazy? I really should get out and put my carp rod to the test. what are the lakes in the mercer area like and what sort of tactics should be employed? |
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Posted By: GrizzlyKiwi
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2010 at 9:16am
Whangape or the river in mercer would be a good bet... just use a hair rig and fixed 2oz sinker ala the bolt rig and then keep it basic by throwing corn in every 15 mins or so. On the lake its trickier if you are fishing at range and in that case i would use a spod attached to a surf caster on a 60lb leader to hoof the bait out to where you are fishing. Ive made my own spod before out of half a shampoo bottle gluing some foam into the bottom so it floats and empties your ground bait. Also on the lakes use maize because if you use corn the small fish will strip it before the Carp get a chance to look at it. I buy a 25kg sack and do 3kgs at a time... you soak it for 1.5 days then boil it for 35 minutes or so starting from when it starts to boil. Then just empty it into a big bucket with a lid and let is soak overnight, make sure you put some more water in at that point because it will absorb more water while its cooling down. As long as there is water covering the maize it will keep for quite a long time, all you have to do is scape off any mould forming on the surface of the water. This is what a spod looks like so you know what im talking about. |
Posted By: lemmy
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2010 at 2:47pm
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Its going off at the moment the fish are feeding everywhere it seems would be a good time to christen your new rod Mike.
Good advice there sbeehre never been into spodding myself I just find spots where I can fish within throwing distance of the bank although I,m sure a spod opens up a lot more water.
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Posted By: GrizzlyKiwi
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2010 at 6:30pm
| what i will do sometimes is put out a marker float and spod to it or like on the weekend just use a kayak to take bucket fulls of spod mix out :) |
Posted By: lemmy
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2010 at 7:20pm
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Anyone been wetting a line for coarse fish I,ve been doing more Sea fishing in the 509 lately.
Although managed a quick go in a feeder stream to Whagape on the way South last night for a couple of hours but only managed a few Rudd and a big old swamp monster Brown trout caught on a piece of bread he went back to the murky depths.
 The fishing Gods are smiling.
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Posted By: Michael Jenkins
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 9:54pm
Got out there today, What the fish lacked in size they made up for in numbers, many many small kois, mixed with some large Goldfish, most of the goldfish were bigger than the kois. In the late afternoon a better koi started charging about sucking on leaves and everything else it could find on the surface, would be about as "worked up" as I've ever seen a koi. I'd foolishly put the last of my bread into the berly to make it a bit less soupy, Managed to get a 1/2 decent sized bit that floated and flicked it out on the 2kg gear with a hook and nothing else attached, The fish charged strait for it and here it is (pales in comparison to lemmy's shots but hey camera phones will be camera phones): As it was getting close to pack up time I threw a few corn kernals I had droped onto the ground during the day into the water close by and a Rudd quickly came and swiped it. Seeing as I had loads of corn to spare I began feeding the rudd a kernal at a time, it wouldn't get all of them and remained just on the edge of my vision with polaroids. So I took to flicking another kernal as the last one left my sight, just like a tuna chink trail, well soon enough the rudd was joined by a larger orange shape, so I slid the split shots on my float rig up to near the float and slowly lowered a couple of kernals on a hook at the same rate the free ones were sinking, Instant take and hookup. Nice one I thaught, so I did the same again, slowly fed kernals out one by one, 1st the mosquito fish were there, then the rudd then finally koi (which were generally heralded by the mosquito fish jumping in unison) then I'd lower my bait at about the normal sink rate of a free kernal and I'd get a hook up right away, Repeated that 4 times and on the 4th A better fish took me into a snag and busted me off on the 2kg stuff. Because I was on my way out I didn't bother with a full float rig and just put a hook onto the main line and tried again, once again a quick hook up got another 2 kois and a couple of gold fish, then really had to go... ...now the question is, have you guys tried stray lining down a chunk trail for Koi before (perhaps with different terminology)? I guess it should be noted that this was at the end of the day in a patch of water where baits and berly had been going all day, but it was much more sucessfull than regular float fishing or using a bolt rig today... ...I may need to experiment further on my net trip. |
Posted By: lemmy
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 6:22am
Great report Mike good to see someone is out there doing it, I,m tied up with Kids stuff for the next few weeks.
It sounds like you had a good day ,managing to pick a day when the Carp are,nt fornicating can be
hit and miss this time of year.
Catching any fish while sight fishing has to be the most exciting type of Angling and like you said nows the time to get them on the surface.
Good to hear you have found a new method never tried that although alot lot of the guys toss a Sugar sack out in to the current full of groundbait and catch the Fish in the "Chum" trail.
Interesting to note in your post the inanga were fleeing in terror when the Carp came in ,at some times of the year Carp will feed on fry and its worth using a few for your hookbaits.
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Posted By: Michael Jenkins
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2010 at 9:10pm
These were definately not native Inanga: They were the invasive Mosquito fish/gambusia:  i did see an excited yellow Koi start chasing the gambusia on the surface trying to suck them in, was going to ty livebaiting one but the koi soon buggered off.. might try that next time, I suspect I might wind up with an eel or catfish if fished on the bottom, might have to try keeping the livie on the surface to target koi. It'd be good if that helped to target the better ones. |
Posted By: Michael Jenkins
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 8:09pm
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Got out again Today but oposite story, good quality but little quantity. Had a new reel to christen this time. Shimano Baitrunner 2500 DL. it came with 2 spools, so one has 2kg the other has 4kg and I managed to land a 58cm carp on the 2kg line, The rig was simply 1.5m of 8lb line for a leader and a size 8 owner bait holder hook with 3 kernals on it, nothing else on there with the reel in bait runner mode, after a couple of thuds i picked up the rod and pointed it directly at the water, line then started smoothly running out, wind the handle, bait runner clicks over, weight starts to pick up, raise the rod, big bend, NICE ONE! after a good battle it was slid into the net and on the bank:  Later in the day I went for a wander and spotted one mothing the surface in the middle of a weed patch so grabbed the baitrunner again and dropped a bread crust onto the weeds. after painfully watching it suck on every bit of twig, leaf and weed next to the bread It finally sucked it down, I muttered "the fascist regime" to myself (It's a variation i use of the "god save the queen" which fly fishers use  ) and struck. After a bit of touch and go, keeping it out of snags and out of the over hanging tree it was on the bank aswell (weed patch in the background)  aside from a couple of catfish, gold fish, 2 rudd (released) a small koi, and this one, it was pretty quiet:  But My main aim was to get a couple of decent ones to use as shark baits tomorow, so mission accomplished. I'd have no idea what Bronze whalers are going to think of these bright orange smelly things, guess i'll find out tomorrow. |
Posted By: Michael Jenkins
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 8:12pm
| Oh yeah i tried live baiting gambisia, hard to get the things without a net and it wasn't particularly lively, scored one of the catfish on it, and it was a better sized cat fish, but no koi interest that I could see. |
Posted By: lemmy
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 9:29pm
 Another Great Post Mike those fish are getting bigger.
I catch my fry by submerging a bread bag with some breadcrumbs near your feet just lift it out when you need fresh bait.
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