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Hi Harvey - you're dead right. I checked the regs and this is a requirement specific to the West Coast, so I guess I imported that bad habit from the east... I was thinking that we might get an aluminum frame made up for next year that holds the net and one end of the screen in place so it can just be pulled in/adjusted from the shore as the tide comes in. It's a pain in the (wet) arse having to pull it in when its too deep for my waders.

Thanks Fraser - well spotted.

Hi Harvey - I do, but I thought I would put up a short each day as it happens to see how they go (the full video for this trip should come out in the next week or so). Also, for unsuccessful trips fishing, its quicker for me to put a short up for those that are interested, rather than going to the effort of editing a full video that won't get many views.

@@fiordlander yeah i can understand that sometimes a unsuccessful fishing trip is good though as that’s reality we went out on the west coast for two day only got a pound a day but on the last morning we got 6kg could of got 10 but had to go home just blind scooping in the mouth we stay at Haast lodge and whitebait on the waita river

@@Harveyshuntingandfishing Nice work. Were you using a cloth scoop net like mine, or a metal mesh job down in the surf?

Yep - and it did again this year.

Whitebait - but not as many as I would like…

@@fiordlander Same on the east coast brother, worst season so far in living memory

When's the full video coming?

⁠Hopefully a couple of days after I finish filming the trip.

Not until October this year

We been baiting it all season nothing happening yet. 2 mouths at the moment 1 at the hapuka and 1 at the okuru . Okuru seems to be fishing better at the of the 2 👍

Hope some turns up soon - might see you there.

It's one of these: www.marine-deals.co.nz/rapala-lures/savage-gear-3d-rad-rat-topwater-lure-6-5in-brown

No worries.

Nice haul. It will be interesting to see how the mouth shapes up this year.

Cheers. Yep - you can book online - www.waitutu.co.nz/contact--booking.html

Could make for an interesting season...

Thanks for the tip, BC. We've had good success on Lake Gunn against where the cliffs drop straight into the lake. I guess the fish just cruise up and down there all day long waiting food to drop in...

We didn't actually take the rods, but I expect that there would be decent numbers as the flow is relatively stable given it drains a reasonably big lake.

Well, hopefully. But he's taken a bit of a shine to fishing off the inflatable these days.

Wasn't really keeping track of time - I would say about half an hour on the lake each way (although more if it is rougher) and an hour or a bit more each way on the river. From memory, we used less than 50 liters of fuel, but took 80 liters with us. Remember to let the two commercial operators know that you will be on the river, and to sign in (and out) in the intentions book on foreshore at Teal Bay Hut before heading down the river. Good luck.

About an hour on the river, 20 minutes on the lake - although our boat is not the fastest unit around...

Solar 470 (bloody Russian) - a fully inflatable unit powered by a 50hp outboard jet unit.

Nice work - which part of the shore were you fishing from?

That's what I heard too.

I actually went into the Invercargill Hunting & Fishing shop to get a material net to take down the river, but it was going to be $500+ between getting the net and the 3m go-by, so I left it (for next year)...

Cheers. Didn’t see any rooting - not that I was looking for it. Plenty of deer sign on the sand.

Yep. We all caught one. Didn’t take much footage though - might chuck it up as a ‘short’. Didn’t win the boat either…

@@fiordlander oh nice

Jet unit - you wouldn't want to take a regular outboard down that river!

Cheers.

You can, but there is often better scooping opportunities down at the mouth were the set netters can't go. That being said, there can be places upstream where it is only possible to fish with a scoop net. There were few places on the Grey River (Greymouth) on the rocks that use to be (and probably still are) hotly contested for scoopers due to the way the whitebait runs up the river and comes in close to those rocks...

@@fiordlander Hi there. Thanks for the reply. I had a terrible season on the Aorere. I have always wanted to have a fish in Westland, so next season, God willing, I will head down there. Probably like you do for a week or so. Keep up the videos. They are great

Good stuff - might see you there next year.

Absolutely. We never stopped going out over the last year - I just took a break from editing the videos that we shot, so none got put up on UA-cam. There is a backlog of videos to do - we have trout fishing footage from Lake Te Anau (different trips to North Fiord and the head of the lake), Lake Gunn, Lake Ada (Milford Track), North Mavora and Lake Paringa coming soonish.

Didn't see any, not that we were fishing.

I believe it is any fishing gear that is fixed in place (i.e. not moving).