A Couple of new young wokkers joined the crew for our April 2023 French Pass/D'Urville Island trip. They brought with them a boat (The Phantom) - not the Ghost who Walks but a fine fishing / diving vessel. Chris was a fine diver (as was Johnny) who loved to catch crays but Chris was allergic to crustaceans and couldn't eat them. Fortunately the rest of the crew did not suffer from this disorder.
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| In the Fridge On arrival we got a feed of fish from Current Basin (after a 10am start from Nelson and a stop at The Brick Oven at Rai Valley in the rain.) Fortunately the rain stopped before we arrived at Webber's house in French Pass. On Sunday we went to the East Coast of D'Urville Island. The fishing was pretty poor but the divers collected lots of crayfish plus speared Moki and Greenbone. Did someone say Crayfish?   On Monday we travelled to Bottle Point on the West Coast; The lads had fancy fishing gear and showed us how to catch kingfish on lures with no bait follower by large snapper. A decent sized mortgage would be required to obtain the fancy fishing gear needed to catch these brutes. The lads were very accommodating to the older blokes, and handed over their (expensive) rods to the older folk when they had hooked a fish so that the older brigade would have something to skite about - like Nick's 30Kg kingfish. |
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| Nick's Kingfish On Tuesday we headed East across Admiralty Bay - past the Oil Rig and it's support vessels for a quick fish in bright, calm conditions to see if we could catch more snapper on lures. Johnny caught one, but released it again as it was deemed too large to keep. Home for a bite of lunch and to clean up, then back to Nelson again.
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