An epic day having a bait'n berley bash in the mussel farm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- After having such a fun couple of hours softbaiting in the mussel farm Stevo and I headed back for a serious bait n berley bash, I wanted to see how good it can really get and if the bait fishing would be just as good if not better. We still had a bit of a northerly swell hanging around with wind accompanying it, so just like last time we were hoping we could nudge just out of that weather.
Launching and just coming around the head the swell and wind made it a bit of a bumpy ride for us along the coast but the little fc430 battelled through it with ease. We made our way to a spot we caught a few nice fish on the softies the other day in hope it wasn't just luck that we were there when the fish were. We anchored up and set the berley to have a steady flow, every time we have come here it just feels so fishy.
Dropping the berley and cranking as it dropped the water filled up with little chunks and with Stevo already having a bait in it took seconds for his rod to load up. I could see fish shadows around the berley and new straight away with Stevos rod tip nodding they must of been Trev's - a few seconds later Stevo had a Trev circling on the surface. There was just a mass school of Trev's around the boat and over the first 10-15mins that's all we caught, we couldn't get our baits through them.
Casting further back I managed to hook up to our first snap which was followed all the way by Trev's once closer to the boat, Stevo also managed to land a snap straight under the boat. We had caught a good size Trev and carved half of it up into little bait sized chunks with the other half set on ice for a bit of lunch. Being a harder bait it stayed on the hook longer for us. With the berley really kicking in snapper started coming in thick and fast with most being around that 40-45cm which isn't a bad fish at all. The Trev's were with us the whole time we were there and soon those better snaps started to arrive, it's always good fun to have a few double fig fish turning up.
Stevo decided to flick out a softie, sometimes it can get you those better, bigger fish and sure enough Stevo was hooked up to a better fish. It was another nice solid red which was released to fight another day, the fishing was hot and it was great to be able to release a lot of these bigger fish. It was another fun day fishing the mussel farm with plenty of fish coming aboard. It was awesome seeing the schools of trev's and a few kings swimming around in the berley but most of all it was greeting a line wet with Stevo.
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Best fishing 🎣 channel around. Orsome watching you guys🐟🐟👍👍
Cheers PG for the kind words - it was a bit of a bugger I lost my audio on this one, can probably tell I was a little tired to was a long trip that one with a late drive :-)
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Hey bro do you anchor up or drift along the rows while softbaiting the farms?
Would be mean to see a video of a q and a or even just another surf casting video
great vid mate just wondering i have got my first boat which is a fryan i was wondering what is the best hp motor for it
Cheers SE
I'm not 100% sure but it may tell you what the max HP it can take on the little serial tag that is normally on the hull somewhere (most times up the front) you'll also have to check what length leg it takes.
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@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing thank you mate also what is a go place to go out fishing in a harbor where its not rough and you will get a good feed of snapper around west Auckland
@@soccersamclips5908 The inner Manukau holds plenty in the shallow gutters/channels and right about now the gurnard will be starting to show up in numbers - The upper Harbour out from Te Atatu up towards Birkenhead fulls up over those summer months - you might still luck a few around Chelsea and you may get a surprise of a few gurnard catches.
I'll add too like some of the comments already.. always great to watch the videos on your channel, always well filmed and the content always top class. Your little boat definitely is super versatile too
Cheers MS for the support and kind words I'm glad your enjoying - lost my proper audio on this one which was a bit of a bummer.....
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Awesome day out fish everywhere !!
Was a good day alright HP and plenty of fish in the trail :-)
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Like the veritas rods boys, looks like deadmans. Great fishing
cheers JD :-)
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Nice Vid Mate, If you don't mind me asking what reel is that? Okuma Baitfeeder Avenger 4000? or 6000?
Cheers ZS
It's the little 4000 Avenger - great little reel for straylining and do a bit of softbaiting with it.
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Hay mate relly like ur show were r these mussel farms u fish
Cheers LB
These are in the far north Doubtless Bay
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Do you ever come down to firth of Thames
@@Lylah20023 use to base our 2 trips a year in Kuaotunu back in the late 90's and fish a lot around Opito bay and acouple trips to Port Jackson - never fished the Thames coast...
Impressive, sustainable fishing. Love to watch the releases of fine quality fish necessary to produce for the next generation.
Cheers TE
Love catching them but love seeing them swim away which becomes the best part of the catch :-) on my boat we have limits so anything under 35cm goes back and anything over 10lb goes back after a few quick pics. Occasionally we take the odd big one if not for the smoker only because it's bleeding or won't go back.
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Wat size reel are u running on the okuma x-factor
Hi JD
Running the little Okuma Avenger 4000 baitfeeder - great little reel and have had no issues with the baitfeeder side of things that some other makes do....
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Nice work Jason! The footage around berley bag was pretty epic. So cool to know that much life is down there.
Cheers CF
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Keep it up great work man love your vids
Cheers for the support RM
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