Fishing
A beautiful afternoon out fishing in Waitamata Harbour. Went out on a friend’s boat and it was one of those boats with retractable wheels so we actually drove the boat on the road until the beach and then just drove it on the beach into the water and once it was deep enough the wheels retracted up. Much easier than launching and trailers.
There were three of us and we caught around ten snapper and one kawhai. I landed the kawhai after letting another one escape earlier. The buggers jump into the air to try and unhook themselves. I haven’t gone fishing for years and years so was a great relaxing afternoon. It was perfect weather too.
On the way back we also lowered a very small environmentally friendly (doesn’t crush anything) dredge and after a couple of runs ended up with a great collection of scallops (but under the legal limit).
So dinner tonight was firstly lovely raw kawhai, and then home made fresh mornay scallops. That was so filling we didn’t even move onto the snapper, which we may start at lunch tomorrow.
I am starting to become very favourably inclined towards the idea of owning a boat!
March 8th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I went fishing too! The maori calendar said it would be no good today, but you and me both did alright. Three of us got about twenty snapper and had some fun with some kingfish- the kingis won on the day though.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Actually, the trick is to not own a boat yourself, but to be good friends with someone who does
They can be expensive to maintain, and most areas they’ll charge you the equivalent of your first born son just to have the privilege of mooring it.
Bastards, the lot of them!
March 8th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Bugger…..
No……. Dave….. don’t do it.
We want yo’all on your computers or at sports training or in trendoid bars every spare minute.
Because as surely as god made little fishes…….
You will first want to catch and kill as many fish as possible,
then you will want to kill as many big fish as possible,
then you will want to catch and release some fish,
then you will want to catch hard fish,
then you will want to cast to hard big fish and release every one.
I don’t want to see you in the headwaters of the ********* River.
Because then you will be a fly fisherman and a danger.
Please Piss Off.
Unless you want to catch a few off Auckland every third Sunday?
Buy the boat, terrific stuff.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
don’t they gasp when taken out of their natural environment..?
they drown in air..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
March 8th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Yep it was flat as a millpond out there today. You should see the tracks those dredges make on the bottom – they pick up all the baby scallops as well as the big ones. Of course you would have to be diving for scallops to see the tracks on the bottom. I just hope no-one drops a dredge on my head when I’m down there.
Although if you have a trailer boat there is no mooring cost and not much maintenance. Although all the washing of the gear when you get home can get to be a pain.
I wouldn’t bother buying a boat in Wellington(unless its a yacht)- too windy!
March 8th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Nah phil, a common misconception.
You want to keep a fish to eat , it gets harvested with a quick blow between the eyes.
You want to release the fish, that’s 98% of fish in my case, it swims happily away hopefully to be caught another day.
Released fish are kept in the water before release.
I fish a river in the SI where one 14lb monster rainbow has been released by fishermen good enough to catch her at least 20 times
I’ve never seen a fish gasp.
March 9th, 2008 at 6:54 am
“..I’ve never seen a fish gasp..”
complete and utter bullshit..!
(‘a quick blow between the eyes’..eh..?…(why..!..quite the ‘humanitarian’..aren’t you..?..)
and..’sorry about that hook-hole..!..but i’m having fun..!’.
eh..?’.)
there is a piece on pet insurance..in one of the sunday rags..
and there it is noted that new zealanders have a ‘farming’ attitude towards animals..
they don’t ‘care’ about them/their welfare/lives..
and just see them as a ‘resource to be exploited’..
fishing is just another thread of that exploitation..
and over-fishing will end that exploitation..
(a good idea ‘to get a boat’ tho’..
wot with rising waters..and the like..eh..?)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
March 9th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Better still move to Auckland and smell the coffee. Real NZ does not live past Taupo.
March 9th, 2008 at 7:18 am
btw..fish have central nervous systems very similar to ours..
so..fisherfolk might like to meditate on what it ‘feels like’ to have a hook punctured through their cheek…
…and then that hook used as the fulcrum to ‘reel them in’..
..then of course..there is the ‘gasping for water’..
eh..?
the fishs’ p.o.v…eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
March 9th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Boat 4 sale, Four Winns SunDowner 1950 only $28,000 good condition.
March 9th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Really Phil, why dont you fish off………….. nah, just joking
March 9th, 2008 at 8:19 am
yeah. News just in, fish die when you kill them.
March 9th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Fuck philu is there anything you are not an expert on.
March 9th, 2008 at 8:44 am
I wish philu would land a huge angry barracuda and then attempt to give it mouth to mouth respiration.
March 9th, 2008 at 9:26 am
btw..
we are still taking bets on the sweepstake..as to when dpf will do his second (meltdown’) story..
in the meantime..
this should ‘keep you going’..
http://whoar.co.nz/2008/sorting-through-the-rubblein-post-bubble-americatodays-must-read/
phil(whoar.co.nz)
[DPF: 10 demerits for off topic]
March 9th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Kahawai, that has been out of the sea less than four hours is beautiful.
Eat it the day it is caught.
Next day it is for the cats.
March 9th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Hey was that the standard that had the Headline Farrar Rapes Waitatmata with Rabdom Dredging?
Mmmmm blow between the eyes.
March 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
They say boats can give you the two happiest days of your life:
The day you buy it and the day you sell it.
March 9th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Phil- I hooked a kingfish yesterday, and it broke my line. I guess it was left with the hook stuck in its mouth, a big heavy gauge livebait hook no less.
Half an hour later it was back feeding like nothing had happened, and took another livebait.
I agree there is an element of cruelty in fishing, and you’d be silly to deny that fish feel pain, but not to the same degree that we do, or else that kingfish would never have come back.
March 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
before getting into buying a boat you might want to try fishing charters
much cheaper than capital and running costs of a boat
and gives you a chance to try fishing wellington waters which are very different
there’s a much wider variety of fish down here and the charter guys know where and when to find them
eg pete lamb does the best charters out of wellington (www.petelambfishing.co.nz)
March 9th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
PhiluPrick : the correct spelling is WHORE not WHOAR
http://www.blogossary.com/define/link-whore/
“A link whore is one who solicits links to her blog regularly or seems/is desperate to receive links to her blog.”
March 9th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
A wider variety of fish Gavin? I don’t believe you. Marine biodiversity decreases the further south you go. All going south is good for is pauas ‘puka and blue cod.
March 9th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
There are no fish south of the Bombays and Cook Straight sailfish dont count.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Philu,
The last lot of greenies I saw carried enough hardware in their persons to start a small DIY store.
Were they “hurting”?
Were they protesting at the cruelty of recreational fishermen (no fishers in my household)?
Were they trying to make themselves attractive to fridge magnets?
Were they trying to upset the MRI machine when the Drs were trying to find evidence of a brain?
What were they doing with all those body parts carrying random bits of metal?
Please help me phil, I’m puzzled.