Well it has been a while.... Several failed winter carp sessions and a 90 mile that opened our eyes later and we should be getting geared for spring fishing.
Firstly, next year's 90 mile is from Tuesday 23 March till Saturday 27 March. Make sure you have those dates pencilled in. I think we should be looking to leave at around midday on Friday the 19th. That will give us Saturday to set up camp, Sunday and Monday for recon for the Tuesday start. Hopefully we can also finish up some stingray business and maybe even fight a kingi just to set the mood before the comp starts in Earnest.
Next on the list is the Double island spring adventure. this is traditionally a two day and one night event, on a remote Coromandel island. You will have to face the fierce tides, the rough weather and rats the size of a small warthog! It is all worth it though as we landed well over a hundred fish between 2 anglers last year. The species ranged from Sharks to eels and everything in between. What we need to establish is when we are going to do this. Late September would be perfect, so please suggest some dates. I think that a early Saturday morning start should be the go with a late Sunday pickup.
Tight lines,
JAMP
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Anyone else excited?
Ok, 5 days and counting!! I sureley hope that you have your favourite rig sorted, and pretty much most of your fishing gear in order......
This is how the money side of things are looking. After minor discussions with most of the members, it seems like a money kitty will be the go. The idea is that we ad the money into the kitty and pay for everything and split the difference at the end of the trip. Keep in mind that none of us wants to spend a lot of money, so the aim is to be as cheap as possible. The flipside however is that we will be living, eating and sh**ting at a campsite 200kms north of nowhere, so we still want to make sure that we are comfortable. I would much rather over budget and get some money back, than under budget and have to dig into the credit card while we are up there.
I have noted the probable costs per person:
Accomodation: $83
Petrol: $150
Bait: $20
Food: $80
TOTAL: $333
I suggest we put in $350 each. I suspect that will get away with less, but it pays to be prepared. Let me know what you think. I am happy to take care of the money matters, but if the team wants to, we can vote in a member to be the financial caretaker.
Also, I have purchased 20 break out sinkers at a rate of $2.75 each. You can get them of me at that rate.
I am currently devising a menu which I propose on the weekend before we go food shopping. We can then amend, or redesign it!
Tight lines
JAMP
This is how the money side of things are looking. After minor discussions with most of the members, it seems like a money kitty will be the go. The idea is that we ad the money into the kitty and pay for everything and split the difference at the end of the trip. Keep in mind that none of us wants to spend a lot of money, so the aim is to be as cheap as possible. The flipside however is that we will be living, eating and sh**ting at a campsite 200kms north of nowhere, so we still want to make sure that we are comfortable. I would much rather over budget and get some money back, than under budget and have to dig into the credit card while we are up there.
I have noted the probable costs per person:
Accomodation: $83
Petrol: $150
Bait: $20
Food: $80
TOTAL: $333
I suggest we put in $350 each. I suspect that will get away with less, but it pays to be prepared. Let me know what you think. I am happy to take care of the money matters, but if the team wants to, we can vote in a member to be the financial caretaker.
Also, I have purchased 20 break out sinkers at a rate of $2.75 each. You can get them of me at that rate.
I am currently devising a menu which I propose on the weekend before we go food shopping. We can then amend, or redesign it!
Tight lines
JAMP
Sunday, February 1, 2009
In Control
Contrary to popular belief we are actually well in control in terms our organisation of our big trip. Unless you are a woman, you should be able to plan a fishing trip in 2 minutes flat! In twenty business days I have planned a trip around the world! Trips to Fiji, China, SA, Australia Malaysia etc. So you can feel safe that you are in experienced hands. No need to panic just yet, so if you are of a nervous disposition please call 0800-chillpill and relax!
We have accommodation sorted, tickets sorted, transport sorted. Tents, furniture, cookware, t-shirts etc. If you don't have your fishing gear sorted, the get on to it as I wont be wiping your bottom as well!
So really we only have a few small issues to sort out. Some are related to fishing, and some are related to the trip itself.
OK the photo's: Remember this is not a FBI identification kit!!! DON'T PAY for the photo. A normal digital photo taken by Mrs fisherman and cropped on your own pc is perfectly fine. Get that done and e-mail to me, I will do the rest.
Bait: We need to organise our bait situation. My ideas are that we will mostly use fresh shellfish and bait fish, which we can get by the bucket load at the beach. We will need a good supply of squid and some pillies. I also think that it will be a good idea to test some juvenile rudd before we go up as it just looks like a perfect snapper bait. Remember that we will be catching piper and the like off the wharf at night so we don't need 300 kgs of bait. Most of the winning fish were caught with fresh bait.
As for the sinkers, I can assure you that we will not need 40 sinkers!!!!!! I have used less than 10 break out sinkers in my whole surfcasting career! And if you ask some of the team members, I have a knack of casting my rig without the mainline so I am pretty heavy on terminal tackle. Half that should be sufficient. Don't worry about sending money as I will list the costs of things we need to buy, and members can then let me know if they will be happy to reimburse me at which point I will go ahead and make the purchase.
The rest of the fishing gear is up to the individual members. Remember that theoretically you can fish this whole comp with one rig.... Keep that in mind when you are packing as we have limited space.
We will need to sort out food, but I suggest that we do a shop the day before. We should do this by making a list that same day in order to make sure what each member eat and don't eat.
One more thing. After looking at the calender, I have worked out the following timeline: Feb 27/28 Members meet in Hamilton (Tjaart you can stay at ours if you like) Feb 28 day and evening - food and bait shopping. 1 March Leave Hamilton for Whangarei at a comfortable time in the morning. If possible test our gear at the local beach and spend the evening at my inlaws. ( They kindly agreed to have us if we behave)
March 2: Leave Whangarei for Waipapakauri (comp base) Register, and head north to our camping ground. Once we have set up camp, we can have a brandy and head down to the beach to check it out and to get some shellfish if the tide allows. From there we will go to the briefing at6 pm and then go home for another brandy, and some fishing off the wharf and lots of sleep to get ready for the early start the next day.
I am not sure what else we need to sort a month out from the comp.... If anyone can think of something, let me know.
JAMP
We have accommodation sorted, tickets sorted, transport sorted. Tents, furniture, cookware, t-shirts etc. If you don't have your fishing gear sorted, the get on to it as I wont be wiping your bottom as well!
So really we only have a few small issues to sort out. Some are related to fishing, and some are related to the trip itself.
OK the photo's: Remember this is not a FBI identification kit!!! DON'T PAY for the photo. A normal digital photo taken by Mrs fisherman and cropped on your own pc is perfectly fine. Get that done and e-mail to me, I will do the rest.
Bait: We need to organise our bait situation. My ideas are that we will mostly use fresh shellfish and bait fish, which we can get by the bucket load at the beach. We will need a good supply of squid and some pillies. I also think that it will be a good idea to test some juvenile rudd before we go up as it just looks like a perfect snapper bait. Remember that we will be catching piper and the like off the wharf at night so we don't need 300 kgs of bait. Most of the winning fish were caught with fresh bait.
As for the sinkers, I can assure you that we will not need 40 sinkers!!!!!! I have used less than 10 break out sinkers in my whole surfcasting career! And if you ask some of the team members, I have a knack of casting my rig without the mainline so I am pretty heavy on terminal tackle. Half that should be sufficient. Don't worry about sending money as I will list the costs of things we need to buy, and members can then let me know if they will be happy to reimburse me at which point I will go ahead and make the purchase.
The rest of the fishing gear is up to the individual members. Remember that theoretically you can fish this whole comp with one rig.... Keep that in mind when you are packing as we have limited space.
We will need to sort out food, but I suggest that we do a shop the day before. We should do this by making a list that same day in order to make sure what each member eat and don't eat.
One more thing. After looking at the calender, I have worked out the following timeline: Feb 27/28 Members meet in Hamilton (Tjaart you can stay at ours if you like) Feb 28 day and evening - food and bait shopping. 1 March Leave Hamilton for Whangarei at a comfortable time in the morning. If possible test our gear at the local beach and spend the evening at my inlaws. ( They kindly agreed to have us if we behave)
March 2: Leave Whangarei for Waipapakauri (comp base) Register, and head north to our camping ground. Once we have set up camp, we can have a brandy and head down to the beach to check it out and to get some shellfish if the tide allows. From there we will go to the briefing at6 pm and then go home for another brandy, and some fishing off the wharf and lots of sleep to get ready for the early start the next day.
I am not sure what else we need to sort a month out from the comp.... If anyone can think of something, let me know.
JAMP
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Feb is HERE
The big comp is just around the corner and by now most of us should only be thinking about targeting big snapper, apart from our self nominated captain Just another medium pacer, who has managed to keep his mind occupied with other thoughts.
Our hearts go out to our fallen leader who will be spending most of his day knee deep in shit.
Its has been difficult in communicating with our captain after many attempts, and im being reasured that with him on our team the competition is as good as won.
At this stage with only 20 working days left, we have much to plan.
One thing is that we need to buy some Breakout Sinkers. The new daddy will have to order it in bulk, but we each need to contribute about $30.00 which will give us about 40 breakout sinkers ranging from 4 - 6 oz which should be sufficent.
We also need to remeber that we need to have passport fotos takinh for our registration. As soon as you have your $30.00 and passport fotos please send it to just another medium pacer for collection.
Just to inform every one that the new tickets has been sent to just another medium pacer if there were any concerns. Hopefully he will take better care of them this time around.
Our hearts go out to our fallen leader who will be spending most of his day knee deep in shit.
Its has been difficult in communicating with our captain after many attempts, and im being reasured that with him on our team the competition is as good as won.
At this stage with only 20 working days left, we have much to plan.
One thing is that we need to buy some Breakout Sinkers. The new daddy will have to order it in bulk, but we each need to contribute about $30.00 which will give us about 40 breakout sinkers ranging from 4 - 6 oz which should be sufficent.
We also need to remeber that we need to have passport fotos takinh for our registration. As soon as you have your $30.00 and passport fotos please send it to just another medium pacer for collection.
Just to inform every one that the new tickets has been sent to just another medium pacer if there were any concerns. Hopefully he will take better care of them this time around.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Small Hiccup... :(
Well, as you all know, my house was burgled over the holidays. Along with Plasmas, watches etc our Snapper Classic tickets were pinched!!!!! What a freaking idiot!!!!! It has our names on it!
The tickets were placed in my top bedside drawer for safekeeping, and until today I had not realised that they were missing. I have taken the right steps to get replacements sent out. Lets hope we dont have any issues with getting replacements, because I am sure that we will see MR Paaling Scavenger raiding drug houses looking for SC tickets!!!
Tight Lines
The tickets were placed in my top bedside drawer for safekeeping, and until today I had not realised that they were missing. I have taken the right steps to get replacements sent out. Lets hope we dont have any issues with getting replacements, because I am sure that we will see MR Paaling Scavenger raiding drug houses looking for SC tickets!!!
Tight Lines
Sunday, December 28, 2008
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