Name / Username of Angler: Naki man
Fish Type: John Dory
Length: – 42cms (Where do you measure these)
Date/Time of Capture: 11/07/09
Location of Capture: White Cliffs – Taranaki.
Type of Lure/Bait used: Pillchard
Comments: Water temp 11.6 – wind chill factor Antartic.

I arrived at Wondaboys place at 6.30am with the sound of the wind using the the high tension wires as a musical stringed instrument and the iron on the neighbours fence joined in as the percussion instrument.

The garage door went up and a not very bright eyed and bushy tailed Wondaboy appared. I was greeted with “you’re F___en mad”. We loaded the yaks and headed for, well you guys know where. “Yakets coming too” exclaimed Wondaboy, “he thinks you’re F___en mad too”

We arrived at “well you know where” to a mill pond sea and very little wind, readied the yaks, “Damn fish finders not working” and headed in a direction along the coast (secrecy is everything) to our spots.

I was fishing blind without my FF, so I paddled around in circles a couple of times, closed my eyes and threw the anchor over. It wasn’t long before snapper after snapper popped to the surface (all around the 320mm mark) with the odd bigger one going in the bin. Wondaboy paddled over with sweet FA in his bin, however he had spotted a couple of nice metre high pinnacles (somewhere in the sea) I later used my trained good eye and noticed he was lined up with the cow standing next to the thistle and judged the distance between 100 and 900 metres away.

I looked up from time to time and noticed that Yaket was hooked up most of the time.

Fish kept bitting and a variety of speices surfaced, kahawai, snapper, trevally (released about 15 small but legal ones) a tail wrapped sting ray and a nice brown spotted snapper (botanical name john dorry) caught on a mackeral Wondaboy paddled over as I packed up and he’d had a better time since shifting, including releasing a 15lbder.

All in all a great day had by all.

Wondaboys 15lbder released

Snapper – johndory – trevally – kahawai

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