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North Island fishing
Topic Started: Jan 4 2015, 03:47 PM (249 Views)
red hilux
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I managed to get out for a fish on my mates boat today..

we headed out to about 30 meters and at no particular spot, the water was so beautiful, almost flat.

i think we bagged out in snapper after a couple hours, so we started to catch and release.

i couldn't tell you how many we release but I did get a double header of legal snapper.

kiwi limit where I was fishing is 7 per person and 300mm long from the nose to the V of the tail
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red hilux
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And a couple more pics
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red hilux
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Forgot to mention

I caught what he thinks it's a dog shark. To me it's a small gummy with teeth.

Also pulled up a couple yellow tails. Set this up as live bait, we had a couple under size yellow tail king fish circling the boat for a couple hours, looking at out bail, looking at our berley trail, looking at our snappers that we were. Pulling up but never went for anything
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Nice looks like fun i hope to emulate your kiwi land captures !
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red hilux
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This trip here this year has been one of the greatest.

If you can and your in the North island

For $99 you can go on an intro flight where you learn how to fly a Cessna 172. It's about 1 hour long and they walk you thru checklist etc. my fly time was 0.6 hours and I now have a log book of sorts.

You take off, fly around the airport, over to some of the island where you can play with the controls, more scenic flying and in my case, since flying before, sort of land the plane

Here is some disgusting photos to look at.

My father in law was flying, I was rear passenger taking pics

That very first pic is shag rock or shag island. I've fished that rock a few times and done well. Couple years back, I caught a massive John Dory of that
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Some good lookin pics there RH.
Some great country over there.
It's a shame NZ is full of Kiwi's........
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red hilux
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Hahaha. Not quite.

If you want to see a kiwi, look in Aussie
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Nice. Theres 2 types of dogfish, one that is inedible with 2 dorsal spines, the other type with no spines is great eating. But why eat shark when fresh snapper is on the menu!
They say "the early bird gets the worm"... Not a problem, worms all yours birdy. I'll get up around noon and fish a dry fly - Hank Patterson
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red hilux
Jan 5 2015, 06:19 AM
Hahaha. Not quite.

If you want to see a kiwi, look in Aussie
I know. I'm the minority at work.
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Bowl under arm at work. That gets 'em whinging
For every day that you don't pay, I'm gunna cut one of your fingers off
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red hilux
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I don't get that comment
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65_spUU05s
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The walking carpet disaster.
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cheating See You Next Tuesdays
They say "the early bird gets the worm"... Not a problem, worms all yours birdy. I'll get up around noon and fish a dry fly - Hank Patterson
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yep. utter disgrace.
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James cohen
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as a kiwi i can confirm perth is full of kiwi's.
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Nice going, the water looks a bit calmer and nicer than here at the moment.
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red hilux
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Jan 6 2015, 05:50 PM
as a kiwi i can confirm perth is full of kiwi's.
I can now confirm that all the kiwis that went back to kiwi land for xmas has now returned back to aussie.


The plane was full on the way back home. You can just see kiwi passports everywhere hahahahahh
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Its what makes australia a great place to live.
They say "the early bird gets the worm"... Not a problem, worms all yours birdy. I'll get up around noon and fish a dry fly - Hank Patterson
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red hilux
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yep agreed with the only exception to snapper fishing, stunning views from ground level and above, those nice windy roads making you turn into a rally driver
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I am tempted to move except for the fact that its a 20 grand pay drop. Also the beer is so damn cheap!!
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red hilux
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8 pack of jack and coke cans $20 in kiwi
10 pack of jack and coke $40

I still think its more expensive to live in kiwi land than here.

Wages are a lot lower than here, petrol is really cheap there at the moment. $1.72/ litre Normally over $2/litre

shopping is here and there
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Yeah land cheaper but food give and take on price $
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