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Post by Fogg on Apr 22, 2024 10:44:36 GMT 12
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Post by em on Apr 23, 2024 10:32:31 GMT 12
Sad state of affairs . When I lived in Auckland mid 90s the Noise’s and Aha’s were considered a bit out the back . You went there to target 20 lbers , big kings and crayfish , there was a very good mussel rock there too . We are all to blame really , through work and recreation we’ve put crap in the water and taken stuff out of it . |
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Post by GO30 on Apr 23, 2024 14:10:44 GMT 12
Sad state of affairs . When I lived in Auckland mid 90s the Noise’s and Aha’s were considered a bit out the back . You went there to target 20 lbers , big kings and crayfish , there was a very good mussel rock there too . We are all to blame really , through work and recreation we’ve put crap in the water and taken stuff out of it . It's literally a few minutes from a city with 1.5 million people + fishing is the second biggest pastime in the country = we are watching the inevitable
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Post by harrytom on Apr 23, 2024 17:06:12 GMT 12
Sad state of affairs . When I lived in Auckland mid 90s the Noise’s and Aha’s were considered a bit out the back . You went there to target 20 lbers , big kings and crayfish , there was a very good mussel rock there too . We are all to blame really , through work and recreation we’ve put crap in the water and taken stuff out of it . It's literally a few minutes from a city with 1.5 million people + fishing is the second biggest pastime in the country = we are watching the inevitable
I am in a very very small minority group. Boat rego+ minimum day skipper + fishing licence. As I have said before,ban all fishing within 1 mile of any shoreline or outer lying island reef with the exception of under 12ft vessels. For 2/5yrs and it will return |
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Post by fish on Apr 23, 2024 19:50:52 GMT 12
Sad state of affairs . When I lived in Auckland mid 90s the Noise’s and Aha’s were considered a bit out the back . You went there to target 20 lbers , big kings and crayfish , there was a very good mussel rock there too . We are all to blame really , through work and recreation we’ve put crap in the water and taken stuff out of it . It's literally a few minutes from a city with 1.5 million people + fishing is the second biggest pastime in the country = we are watching the inevitable
I spotted a boat well inside the Long Bay marine reserve today. It had fishing rods onboard. I couldn't tell if they were fishing, as didn't have my bino's handy and was trying to sneak over the bar with a marginal tide by myself. Anyway, after I'd parked my boat, said boat came up to the boat ramp at the club, so I went and had a pleasant convo "how was the fishing? etc" Two teenage guys and a father. Bin full of amazing fish, big snaps etc. They were proudly showing them off. We had a good banter about the birds today (loads and loads of them) and the quality of the fishing. Then I asked if they knew where the marine reserve was. They were fairly vague, and thought the Long Bay reserve was further down. I did say to them, "look, I didn't see you fishing in the reserve, but I saw you well inside the reserve". Kept it light and convo. Then dropped in an anecdote about last time I saw someone fishing in there, police launch rocked up in less than 15 minutes... I think they were complete newbies (it was a new 4m inflatable, but they didn't icky any of the fish cause they "didn't have anywhere to icky them"...) and honestly did not know where the reserve boundaries where. Father was driving a very sign written work ute, not the classic shit box deliberate poachers use. They didn't have a sounder / fish finder and as far as I could tell didn't have any chart plotter gear. I don't think they were malicious, but I do think the reason they had an amazing bin full of big snapper was cause they were fishing where no-one else fishes. I did give them an outline of the boundaries, and stated I saw them WELL inside the reserve. I'm hoping they familiarise themselves with it now. Bit of a bummer having a great day fishing and then finding out the fishing was so good cause you were in a reserve... And if you want to know demographics, they were white but had ascents. I would have said Safa's. PS, cops would do well to do a breath testing check-point at boat ramps in the afternoon's... Why do so many people booze all day fishing and think they can drive home? |
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Post by em on Apr 23, 2024 20:56:48 GMT 12
Sad state of affairs . When I lived in Auckland mid 90s the Noise’s and Aha’s were considered a bit out the back . You went there to target 20 lbers , big kings and crayfish , there was a very good mussel rock there too . We are all to blame really , through work and recreation we’ve put crap in the water and taken stuff out of it . It's literally a few minutes from a city with 1.5 million people + fishing is the second biggest pastime in the country = we are watching the inevitable
Exactly my point . A good mate of mine once worked for a photolithography Co up one of the gully roads off target road . One of his jobs as a trainee was to tip photoreactive chemicals down the outside drain either early in the morning or after 5 at night . This saved the boss plenty of folding in getting it disposed of appropriately . I worked at 3 different boatbuilders in the Wairau catchment , plenty of shit inadvertently went down the outside drains there too . Another mates uncle had a factory in the catchment that made plastic bottles . The raw stock pellets would often get spilt on the ground during handling , the fuckers were all over north shore beaches above the high tide mark . That was the 80s and 90s and a small snapshot of one of many industrial catchments draining into the harbour around Auckland . The inner gulf is rooted and the outer gulf is next . One upside of the economic downturn it might give the outer gulf islands some respite from tradies having yeah the boys slaughter missions . Won’t stop the rivitomos though . |
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