Spooled my "new" charter special today with 15lb Berkley trilene. Roll on summer.
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Nice reel.. Popular over here in oz for chasing gummy and snapper
What are gummy?
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Quote from: MFB on September 14, 2014, 05:37:14 AM
What are gummy?
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gummy shark ( flake).. Fantastic eating they are too.
Right, we call them greyboy's here, we don't usually take them though.
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I didn't Know they had summer in Palmerston north ;)
good luck with the carrots :)
Jon
We do Jon, you can tell it's summer because the rain is warm. ;D The people are friendly & having spent 15 years here it's now my adopted home town. It only takes an hour to get to the Wanganui ramp too.
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Quote from: MFB on September 14, 2014, 05:37:14 AM
What are gummy?
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They are like gummy bears but shaped like fish instead. :D Dominick
Quote from: Dominick on September 14, 2014, 11:48:00 PM
Quote from: MFB on September 14, 2014, 05:37:14 AM
What are gummy?
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They are like gummy bears but shaped like fish instead. :D Dominick
I'm not as green as I am cabbage looking
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Nice one Mark
you deserve a couple of gurnard after a tow of an hour
where was your original home town?
promise I won't make fun of it
By the way I was born in Dargaville ;D
Wellington for my first 27 years, and then moved over to the Wairarapa (Masterton) for 5 years then I got a job in Palmy and I'm still here but working for a different (better) company.
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I used to catch gurnards all the time as a kid fishing for fluke in the Great South Bay. We called them sea robins, and always threw them back. Who knew they were good to eat?? :-\
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Quote from: Aiala on September 15, 2014, 02:54:28 PM
I used to catch gurnards all the time as a kid fishing for fluke in the Great South Bay. We called them sea robins, and always threw them back. Who knew they were good to eat?? :-\
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I used to catch sea robins as a kid and my mother would bread and fry the tails. They looked like drumsticks when cooked. They were really good. I did not know until today that the fish is called a gurnard. Always learning stuff on this site. Thanks Aiala. Dominick
We have a few names for them too, grunters (they croak like a frog when you take them out of the water). Or carrots due to their orange colour.
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I too am astounded :o that they are good eating and that anglers even pursue them. When I lived on the east coast we would catch them and toss them back, the legs always gave me the creeps anyway :P.
New one on me.
Quote from: Dominick on September 15, 2014, 04:52:00 PM
I used to catch sea robins as a kid and my mother would bread and fry the tails. They looked like drumsticks when cooked. They were really good. I did not know until today that the fish is called a gurnard. Always learning stuff on this site. Thanks, Aiala. Dominick
You're welcome, Dom. Did you also keep and eat puffers (blowfish)? For several years they were so plentiful you could hardly catch anything else. I always used to toss them back as well, although I know that some folks ate the (drumstick-like) tails, which they called "chicken of the sea". :)
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Yep! this was when I was a teen fishing off the surf in NJ. My mother was a whiz in the kitchen. Old fashion Napolitano and Calabrese cooking. Dom
Dominick, I thought you were Siciliano, now I know why you're a capa tosta ;D.
i'm thinking carbontex drag, two stiffer bellevilles, a topless frame and 3/0 grip with a stainless steel arm! ;D
Working on that Alan, unfortunately I have some other family expenses that have taken my play money away at the moment. I never had a gurnard pull string yet, but would like meet one that does. You get the odd trevally that grabs your gurnard rig and that's a lot of fun.
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I have pulled one up from 360m and it was Fluorecent like a Highlighter
must have some Photos somewhere
I was going to send them to the scientists untill I googled them and found there range was from 4 to 400m and the deepwater ones were common in south Austrailia
the key to Gurnard is the prep there are lots of little bones
once you remove those white flaky flesh
sushimi
Always take the pin bones out of fillets. Get most of ours in less than 20m of water, good water for stray-lining snapper too. My friend Sefton caught this snapper from my boat in 11m of water estimated 22lbs it was 750mm long. Strangest thing I have ever caught is a frost fish.
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Quote from: the rockfish ninja on September 15, 2014, 08:58:50 PM
the legs always gave me the creeps anyway :P.
:D Strange little creature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU7hmwzuQ1k
Hi Tim,
They look like this over here. Which is why they are often called carrots...
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Quote from: MFB on September 20, 2014, 04:43:41 AM
Hi Tim,
They look like this over here. Which is why they are often called carrots...
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Thanks Mark, very cool colors...I think I dated a girl in High School that looked like that.
Nice snapper Mark
would love that frostfish for a Broadbill bait
Hi Jon,
Your welcome to them they're not that good to eat, mind you we were sitting down to a feed of puka and kingfish steaks. That's a hard to top.
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Quote from: Big Tim on September 20, 2014, 05:17:56 AM
Quote from: MFB on September 20, 2014, 04:43:41 AM
Hi Tim,
They look like this over here. Which is why they are often called carrots...
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Thanks Mark, very cool colors...I think I dated a girl in High School that looked like that.
Was she a mermaid?
Thanks Mark
If you can pre rig them on 400lb with a 16/0 vacum pack and then you can bring them up april /march
pick a coulple of days with no wind please ;D ;D
Mate, I live in Palmy if I come up of course it's going to be windy ;D What part of the island are you?
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I am in Dargaville now
http://www.kauricoast.co.nz/Pics/6344/Ripiro%203.jpg
But moving to Taupo Bay this summer
http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/015/133/074-TK4973-Taupo-Bay-Road-Taupo-Bay-Far-North-District-Northland-New-Zealand.jpg
Nice, I've only been as far north as Cooks beach. The fishing wasn't that good there either.
my fishing mate got spiked last sunday
by one of those gurnards
5 days in hospital,got out Friday,right hand still swollen
ive caught plenty of those like everybody else
downunder.never new of the danger ???
Hi, Wallace,
Yeah the spines can be nasty, we use wet hand towels for handling them & snapper. You need to watch for grand daddy Hapuka (poison spines) & Hapuka (grouper) spines can go through a gumboot too...
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Just watched this tonight good to watch a sharp blade at workhttp://fishchat.nzfishingworld.co.nz/t/how-to-fillet-gurnard/321 (http://fishchat.nzfishingworld.co.nz/t/how-to-fillet-gurnard/321)
That's pretty much how we do them, I have started using my Kilwell fillet knife it has the same point as the one in the video. I find it easier to work with than the thin point.
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Mark