A big snapper day on the mighty 90 - kontiki fishing the west coast of NZ
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- Stevo and I had been fishing the east coast for awhile while in the north, we had been combating the wind and rain and now forecasted with 25-30knt easterly winds it was time to check what the wild west coast was reading. Staying in the top ten at Whatuwhiwhi just about always guarantees us a day out fishing no matter the weather. The swell wasn't to bad at around 1.5mtrs. Although a meter or less is preferred, there wasn't much else to do other than sit in the cabin for 6-8hrs and wait for the evening to get a surfcast in up the Harbour. So we packed up the Ute with the tiki and the surfcasters incase we could get a line wet with those as well and headed north.
Hitting the beach we found our spot, parked up and readied our first set. The wind was blowing but being offshore with a nice smooth swell rolling it was looking very fishy. We baited the hooks with our favorite tiki bait - cubes of fresh kahawai. All baited up we were ready to rock n roll, Stevo walked the seahorse and dropped her in. The swell was up there I as soon as he dropped it in you could see that heavy northerly pull of the current which the west coast is known for. We usually use this first set to gauge the pull of the current and also getting a rough idea where the fish are holding. We normally do either a short run or a long run. Most times just getting the outside of the outer bank gets you into the fish. Stevo was back clipping on the baits and soon she was on the soak. It hadn't made it out to far as we only set it for a 12min run as the plan was to do a quick set.
once we had here on the soak I decided to gear up the Kotare. Even though it wasn't a perfect setting for surfcasting, it's always worth flicking out on the west coast. I always make my own rigs to fish the wild rugged west coast. It's just a basic single hook dropper rig but blinged up sometimes with a lumo tube, squid skirt and lumo bead for a bit of fish attractant. Knowing I probably wouldn't fish the Kotare in hand i ran a 7/0 mutsu hook which helps the fish to hook itself. I actually managed a nice fish on the surfcaster to start our day off, it wasn't a bad fish either at around 65cm. After that it was time to crank up the winch to see if the tiki would follow suit, it had been soaking for about 20mins and just only out the back of the breakers. It was coming in on a pretty harsh angle, the current was pretty extreme and we were thinking maybe the hooks were even sitting in the break water.
By the time we reached the first few hooks the whole leader with hooks were pretty much out of the water due to that harsh angle so we were able to actually stop the winch and walk the beach to get the fish. We've been sharked here a couple of times where we've stopped pulling in the tiki to retrieve fish or have a bit of a tangle, bronzies sit in that shallow water and pick off your caught fish or hoover up a bait then bite anything in it's way, line and all. Our first set was a little empty but when the fish showed, they were of decent size. We ended up with 5-6 solid fish on our first set which wasn't a bad start. The wind was hampering us as well as a few showers that came by but we were keen for a second set. Our second set was ready to go once again but this time we set on a little more angle - this is where the good old GPS model comes into play. Once you set that course even when it hits waves and gets knocked off course it recorrects it's self. This set was planned off our first, we knew there was an extra strong current, we knew there was some good fish in close so we set the angle and set the runtime 20mins this time. The harsher angle would eat up a bit of time so to get a similar distance to our first we went 5mins longer on the run. Once again it didn't make it out far, it was hard to judge the setting of the angle to the harsh northerly drag of the current. This set the tiki seemed to sit in that inner channel for awhile so we were hoping we still had a few good fish on.
This time with the line angle being 2-300mtrs down the beach I got Stevo to sit on the back of the Ute so he could winch the line as I reversed slowly down the beach. This would stop the fish from being dragged over the sand and able to wind in with not to much stress. We made it about 400mtrs down the beach where we stopped and winched in the last quarter. We were only hoping for another 6-8 fish. Although our quoter was 20 snaps we only wanted about 10-12 fish to take especially being of the good size we were getting. Once all the hooks were out of the water again we stopped the winch and just walked the beach to grab our fish. There was some solid fish once again that hit the sand, they were all good fish around that 50-65cm. In the end we ended up with 10 nice snaps from the tiki and my one on the caster, there was plenty of meat there so we called it a day - and another special day at that fishing the 90....
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Well oiled machines so organised!
Tangaroa always provides
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Well done I have a question what kind of wireless mic do u use, i have a lavaliere and it works fine at home or indoors but at the beach the waves etc are all gargled terrible sound 😝😝😝
Hi HaRA
I run a Boya BY-LM20 lavalier that runs into a GoPro that sits in my pocket - I also run the Zoom F1 voice recorder with the lavalier it comes with. They don't run the LM-20's anymore.
It sounds like on your vids you don't have a mic on you it is on your GoPro?
I run my GoPro as well as a sep mic then at editing time put the two together.
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love your videos mate what editing software do you use
Hi st4824
I use wondershare filmora
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Mean Kai
60 seconds to go bro :)
hi ,i get over to west coast at dargaville from time to time and quiet often there is sweep there too but not like you guys had,,might have had something to do with the howling cross shore wind sure you would have done even better out further ill chase the line down the beach abit to to get a better angle on it
Yea it was a pretty hard out pull this time, it's not normally like that - it could of been a big moon/tide as well. Wind would have played a bit in it but not that much so picking it was a big tide.
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Hi Dennis. Im new to the area. Im thinking going to Glinks this week. Would you know if theres any snags left or right of Glinks? I have nightmares of loosing my tiki..
dont know about glinks ,i fish at baylys and head north a bit,havnt had any issues,swell looking a bit big at the moment,smaller thursday,fri but still marginal,,,the tiki will get out but bigger the swell bigger the sweep down the beaxh ,,,uretiti beach would be better for you,there may be more fish over west coast but fishing it can be hard really need a directional tiki for west coast too@@taitimoproductions4801
Nice one Jase. A while back you mentioned that you always get your trucks rust proofed for beach work, could you let me know who you use? Thanks
Hi bg808
On my Surf I got a mate to do - I brought a rubber sealant from super cheap then mate sprayed it on with a sprayer. This time round on my Mitsi I have used a guy called Kirk from Elite sandblasting. He has done a pretty epic job on it - once he seals it he puts a oil coat over it then best thing to do is drive a dry dusty road. This puts a layer of dust that sticks to the oil coat and helps protect the sealant as well. After that I'm just respraying fisholine under it every 6mnths - you can give it a good clean then take it back to him to put the oil on again if wanted but I just fisholine it then drive a dusty road again...
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@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishingthanks Jase much appreciated
@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing sorry mate, do you have a # for Kirk, having trouble finding him. Cheers
@@bradgibbons808 sorry I don't but this is his website - looks like it's under construction but has his email there on this page - www.eliteblasting.co.nz
Haya bud if u don't mind ... what's the difference between the trio Rex salt... and th T Rex.. thanks
Trio Rex sail or T Rex 🤔
Haya bud how's things.. I'm keen to have a krack at th 90... thinkin about goin on at the te_paki stream.. would it be possible on a 4x4 quad good to see ather surfcasting video
Heya sm
Yep you'll be swt on a quad going down the stream 👍
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@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing thanks for that... I'm keen to give it a shot... do you go left or right...
And what do think about the two reels ... T Rex or the reo
@@shanemckinnon7101 We fish left and right - go for a look down right side to the rocks - haven't fished by them but nice to take a ride down that way and look (3-4min drive along the beach) seen guys fishing off them. Also when you go left if you want you can head to Te Whakatahua island (5min drive along beach) lots of guys fish off the front of it and catch snaps. Lots of food there for big snaps.
Use he sand dunes to scout the holes and channels...
Fished with both reels - TRex took over the Trio so updated, that's what I fish with at the mo - doesn't have LC spool or slow isolation which is a bummer.
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@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing absolutely legend 👍
A question. Why didn't you take the fish bin down by the line?
95% of the time we do but because of the harsh angle and distance it didn't pan out for us on this one.
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Love the video . Expat Kiwi living in OZ. Makes me homesick. Miss the Kaimoana most of all. @@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing
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Sea horse
It's actually 55 miles not 90