Haha 😂 Yes yr absolutely right I do. Very nice Turkey then. I feel a bit like a turkey for my mis judgement ☺. Cheers Ants

Haven't been on the yak forum for a wee while but I bumped into Antz and his crew and said hello to them on the way back in on Saturday. Went out from Lyall Bay mid morning hoping for a quick dinner mission for some lovely fresh gurnard. Steamed past the lads to my generally never fail spot and surprise, surprise, after 20 or so minutes the carrots were coming on board. With the weather being changeable for the worse and 5 reasonable fish on board I packed it in and went to see how the others were fairing. They seemed to be catching there fare share of kahawai, a quick conversion and I was home bound. Nice to see the gurnard in good condition as I don't normally fish for them till October.   

 

Hi Guys/Gals,

Launched yesterday morning at 0545 from Paraparaumu Boat Club for a mission across to the northern end of Kapiti Island for an early season Kingi mission. It took 60min to paddle the 8km in the old Stealth 525 and with bait balls showing on the sounder things were looking promising   . However after a couple of hours of jigging, all I had to show was numerous "Barrys" and KY   . I spent the remainder of the morning exploring "Boulder Bank" up to Tokahaki Pt and whilst I missed my only opportunity at a school of Kingies, I did manage to snare dinner in the form of a couple of decent Blue Cod. With the water temp hovering around 13.5 I reckon it will be a couple weeks more until the Kingies show up in better numbers. By midday the tide was turning, the NW wind was building and I needed to get back in time to vote. So I put the foot down and with a large amount of assistance from the elements   I covered the 8km back to the boat club in 45min   .

Cheers,

JT

Tomorrow looks ok, weather-wise...
I hope to get out at Pukerua bay.

Been a bit quiet on here lately so here is a couple of pic's from yesterday's solo mission.  3 x Kingies over 12kg.  Biggest was approx 16kg (released).

Cheers Muppet.  They are in very good condition at the moment.  This 105cm one I kept for the smoker went 13.3kg.

Jigging mate and losing heaps of weight 

Nice!! Thanks for posting. Was it at Kapiti Island???

Been playing with a new jigging technique recently.  Seems to be working pretty well 

Had one of my best fishing sessions in a long while yesterday. Mike and I were on the water at around 6:15am. Was thinking of usual spot over sand but because of moderate S.E. winds we decided to pull up a bit shorter. Once anchored up and pumping berley we didn't have to wait long at all before the action started. First fish Snapper yeeha! Then just constant bites and fish. Both Mike and I were blessed with fish after fish. It barely hit the bottom before bites and hook ups for the almost the entire time we were out. One of those magic days.
By 8:30am Mike decided he had enough for family with 6 or 7 Snapper so he headed in. I stayed on as i had some friends in mind to give some to as well as for the fam.
I was very happy with 9 pan sized Snapper but with one last pilchard left -(a very manky old one at that!) I managed to pull in slightly bigger model to make 10. Paddled in at 9:30am feeling chuffed. Such a hot hot summer down here in Welly as well as most of the country. Water temp was reported to be 20deg, so very condusive to Snapper fishing.
How have others down here faired?