nice cray..din dins or bait?great moki bait in kaikoura dosnt work that well on bp..if i only caught one would garlic butter it up and under the grill..this weather is pissing me off..have salmon fever bad but cant be shagged during the week because im working the xmas period to save hollidays for a better time…must get out..think i will go to the harbour in the rain..rig on trout gear and a big ray to stretch my line could be the antidote for cabin fever!!!

Took the The fiery ginga to a little spot I sometime fish in Tennyson inlet on Sunday, was a long day. Picked him up around 7:30, and started fishing shortly after 10am. The weather was mixed, warm morning which turned to rain, and after we were soaked it slowly cleared to a perfect evening. The fishing was rather slow, with only Kahawai, Mackerel, Barracouta, Mullet and a few Snapper being caught right on dark. I had live baits out most of the time, one got spooked quite badly by something which created a bow wave but that little else happened.

Think I would do a few shore based kingie missions while waiting to recover from my various health aliments which have been preventing me from kayaking.

went out to bailelys this morning got there a bit late 6.30am got 2 rods in the water one with crab, the other with pipi on one hook prawn on the other hook the first cast hook a good size eley about 10-12lb then crabs had a good feed about 2hrs later got a small greyboy about 1hr later got a other greyboy a bit bigger but returned, had 2 good bites,,by 11am I started to pack up and then hooked into a good fish, crab on for bait got it to just behind the breaker easily and then it woke up and took off dragged my line out and then dropped the bait so packed up and headed home,,wont be able to get out for a couple of weeks as of to aussie in morning so hope everyone on here have a good and safe new year

depends on the size of the bow wave haha but in saying that have seen cuda make a mean bow wave chasing a ticer…but either way still show us one ..well done on the ele elmo…gave up on bayleys myself before xmas but good to see the odd one still lurking..

Just came back from birdlings, nice and flat sea. 6 small doggies all returned. Nice for the we man to reel in though.

South of timaru Pareora
Me n s.s were fishing there the other day in the nor wester and the freezing works guys dumped a big skip of sheep offal and skins in their paddock beside where we were fishing
Since wed had many beverages the night before the smell of the works was heaps better than what they dumped i saw the color drain from ss face and we were outta there.
Seems like the surf beaches blanked this w.e down here saw a salmon caught at the orari mouth but other than that a couple ky
And small mullet
Just now it started pissing down.
Time to get the salmon gear out
And put the surf casters away me thinks

Been fishing the past week pretty hard, getting snapper mackerel gurnard kahawai of massive numbers a sting ray plus the usual school sharks gillers and skate , took today off from fishin but back to it tomorrow a mate got two Kingis yestersay