Coromandel yesterday (28/9/11)
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Topic: Coromandel yesterday (28/9/11)
Posted By: edge01
Subject: Coromandel yesterday (28/9/11)
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2011 at 5:39pm
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Went out yesterday from te Kouma ramp at 530. Sea flat calm so we headed north up the peninsula. had a bit of a fish around fantail bay under the birds but not much doing there. it was quite starneg we could se the fish on the sounder but they wouldnt take bait, jigs etc etc.
headed around to flat top for a dive and got some crays. ( thousands of pots there ate the moment)
Headed south again back towards te kouma and this time found a large work up out off Elephant cove in about 34 metres. Heaps of sign on the sounder. Dropped jigs down and whack!! heaps of fish there. dropped some good ones, kept some, realeased quite a few too.
ended up keeping our limit and heading back to the ramp.
Awesome day. Thanks to chris for coming out and looking after the boat while I was having a swim for the bugs and scollies. Thanks to J.P from yeehaa for hooking us up with the asari katana's which did the damage on the snaps.
K
To my utter disgust when we got back to the ramp there was 6 scallop boats there unlaoding their days catch. there would have been thousands of scollys on those boats in bins. The boats are all from whitianga. If you want to have some scallops before christmas I would suggest that you get them asap. With those guys hoovering them all up there wont be many left soon. No photos unfortuantely. left the camera at home
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Posted By: Espresso
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2011 at 6:32pm
| Ah interesting stuff edge01, congrats on finding the fish. There was alot of fish on the sounder out east the other day too, they also wouldn't take anything for ages. Must check out the asari katana - sounds such a cool name! |
Posted By: Scuba Skip
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2011 at 6:59pm
I hope those barstools dont find my scolly beds I wont be happy anyway sounds like you had a good trip, many girls in berry?
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Posted By: stumpys1
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2011 at 7:47pm
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And you did not invite me ya *******!! |
Posted By: edge01
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2011 at 7:51pm
| Ah mike, your such a clown.........no crays in berry spotted. I think that they have done their thing. they were in berry about two weeks ago. i saw a whole heap of them in one rocky crack full of eggs. missed a big male close by which annoyed me quite a lot........he would have gone about 6lb i reckon |
Posted By: carlostairua
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2011 at 7:59pm
| wicked bro, those asaris are very cool jigs |
Posted By: edge01
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2011 at 8:34pm
| and they work so well Carl. they are without doubt the most lethal thing that i have in my boat at the moment for snapper. they beat bait hands down. |
Posted By: -mAdfis HO-
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2011 at 2:26pm
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Flat as glass Wednesday alright. We were out from Te Puru, managed a feed of small pannies. Tough fishing in the shallows with the sun out. What does a asari katana jig look like??? ------------- FiShInG rOcKs! ChEeRs -mAdfis HO- |
Posted By: edge01
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2011 at 7:39pm
| have a look on the yeehaa site. J.P and Tony have them for sale there. You do need a certain type of jig rod to handle them though. I have a shimano backbone and a shimano lucanus reel with 6 kg braid which is the business for the snaps |
Posted By: BruceNZ
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2011 at 8:38pm
What colour(s) are you using at the mo? |
edge01 wrote:Posted By: edge01
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2011 at 8:57am
| orange and red |
Posted By: spaycee
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2011 at 2:13pm
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yeah 3 of us were out last week and the orangey Asari jig caught 13/20 vs sqid & pillies alone. ------------- I've always wanted to be somebody...I guess I should have been more specific. |
Posted By: gromph
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2011 at 6:27pm
| How do you work those jigs fir snaps? Presumably not mechanical jigging? |
Posted By: RH580ikanui
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2011 at 8:27am
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I've been usuing the Asaris for 2 seasons now & they are dynamite. I use my normal softbait rig with 8lb fireline & 80-100gr depending on drift speed. They sink like bricks. Just cast them ahead a few metres & hang on. In a work up the wll get hammered. Once on the bottom work the last metre of water by setting the max drop to stop just short of the bottom then quietly lift the rod tip up & the jig will flutter back down. 90% of hook ups will occur on the drop back down They will also catch well left in a holder like a Lucanus. A word of warning.... Kingies love them so be prepared to get busted off if they are around. Colour is not that important however I would also agree if there was a orange/red one lying around I'd grab it. Yeehaa were the first guys to stock these however Top Catch in Whangaparoa now have them & a couple of buck cheaper than y/ha. Another reccomendation is the little Zest Leaf jigs in the 100gr. Awesome in work ups but a bit slow drift fishing. Siverdale Bait & Tackle have a good range of them although haven't seen the Asaris' there yet. See ya all out there when this damn wind drops ------------- "IKANUI" RH580 SUZUKI DF140 |
Posted By: gromph
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2011 at 9:14am
| Cheers Supermodel, i actually got one to try out from my local TC (Whangaparaoa) yesterday so will try that out next mish in my baby surtees:-) |
Posted By: FisherMo
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2011 at 10:52pm
Thanks for that great advice supermodel. Really helpful & will try next time im out too.
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Posted By: edge01
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2011 at 12:33am
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I normally just work the section of water which is showing the fish on the sounder. Dont be fooled into thinking that snapper are only a bottom dwelling fish. we caught them well off the bottom on wednesday using the asari's.
I used a style similar to mechanical jigging, but a slowed down version , more just a gentle lift with a couple of winds back down and then gentle lift again. Most of the takes are on the drop as the jig flutters down though. can be hard to pick up on til you get the hang of whats going on. Sometimes the jig will just stop midwater, you need to strike as a fish has grabbed it!! other times you will fell the taps and bangs on the way down. its certainly a deadly form of fishing once you become proficient at it.
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