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- Hi, it's Paul, from Paul's Fishing Systems here.
Recently Ian James and I went up to Uretiti,
to see if the big snapper had arrived in yet.
We unpacked the drone and the remote,
switched them on, and they take about 20 seconds to
a minute for the two to connect,
depending on where the satellites are.
Once the drone is connected to the satellites,
you then calibrate it, pull the lever down,
10 or 12 pushes on the auto return home button.
That will put the drone into the calibration mode,
the green lights to your chest, one loop horizontal,
green lights pointing down,
one horizontal,
and that's it.
Once the lights go green, you're ready to fly
and you've set the home position.
So then we do a quick test fly,
and that's just fly up,
10, 20 metres, go left, go right,
press auto return home,
and just check that it actually comes back to the spot
that you've just launched from.
(motor bike engine revving)
(wind blowing)
(drone engine running)
Everything seems to be working perfectly well.
Once we get to the end of this we'll press the home button,
it takes a second or two, you'll see the drone will maybe
rise to 20 metres, cause if it's under 20 metres,
it always fly's up to 20 metres before it returns home.
Then does a rotation, as it's aiming back towards home.
(motorbike revving)
And then it's on it's way back.
(motorbike engine running)
Now I find that when I'm on the, over the high tide,
there's a lot of soft loose sand and I prefer to hand catch.
So I just press the auto return home button,
until it goes beep-beep,
that takes it out of auto return home.
Slowly
bring the drone down, stop it, get hold of it,
and then just hold the down lever
until the drone switches off.
(waves crashing)
So now we're ready to cut the bait up, lay the line out,
put the baited tracers on,
connect all the weights and everything.
This takes about three to four minutes,
depending how efficient you are.
And we know that the drone's ready to take off,
so we've done it the correct way round.
(wind howling)
And we've done it this way so that we don't have bait
sitting on the beach for too long attracting seagulls.
(drone motors running)
If I've got big baits, or a lot of weight on the line,
I always take care to do a soft take off,
so that I don't trip the inertia release, on take off.
And then once you're up and you've got a bit of line sag,
the constant load, just allows the clip to remain attached.
(wind rustling)
350,
(motorbike engine roaring)
400
(motorbike engine revving)
I keep looking at the remote feed out,
it tells me how fast the drone going, how far away it is.
And once it's at the desired distance, I just jam my head,
my hand over the top of the reel.
And that shock just allows the clip to release,
and it drops, if the drone carries on beyond 500 metres,
of auto return home,
if I stop the drone short of 500 metres,
I then press return home, auto return home,
and the drone will start heading back.
After a couple of seconds I just have a look at the remote,
and make sure that the drone distance is getting less.
So that I know that the auto, return is working.
(motorbike engine revving)
When the drone comes back, I have the option of either
letting it auto land by itself,
or I can press the auto return button
until it goes beep-beep and that will
put out of auto return home if I want to do a hand catch.
(motorbike engine revving)
(drone motors running)
Hand catching stops sand getting blown through the motors,
it's not so important on wet sand like that sand,
but when you've got the dry sand above high water,
a little bit of sand can get blown up
and you really don't want that going through the motors.
(waves crashing)
Oh look at that (laughing),
As soon as you turn your back
We have another big nod here.
It's important to, keep a bit of tension on the line,
after the lines released, I'm straight onto it,
taking the bow out of the line.
Sometimes it'll take you two or three minutes
to actually come up tight against the sinker.
At tight line is the key to catching fish
and seeing the bites.
If you've got a big belly in the line,
you won't see the bites and the fish
don't really have any resistance to hook themselves against.
So tight line equals more fish.
(waves crashing)
You can wind it in faster you're nearly in now now.
(waves crashing)
(wind rustling)
(waves crashing)
The brown-stuff around the line there is,
a bit of drifting seaweed.
One of the really good things about drone fishing,
a little bit of that drifting weed doesn't really matter.
Because you cast straight over the top of it,
and normally you're well out past it.
That looks like a keeper doesn't it.
- Yeah-- (waves drowns out Ian's reply)
(waves crashing)
- [Paul] Yeah just, measure it on the board there
- Yep
(wind rustling)
(waves crashing)
- Yeah, it's well over
(waves crashing)
Wow, first time drone fishing, first cast, first fish.
(drone motors running)
- So I've cast the rod that we caught the fish on out again
and I've got the drone just coming back, the second time.
So,
(drone motors running)
things are starting to warmup.
We're getting bites on both rods at this point so who knows.
We've got so much going on actually,
we've decided just to let this drone auto land.
So it took off from the wet patch of sand,
so it's a good place for it to land.
You can see that auto landing is a bit slower than,
manual landing but it's very safe.
(drone motor shutting down)
(waves crashing)
Do you wanna wind yours in ?
(waves crashing)
- Not really (chuckles)
- [Paul] You don't, not while they're biting.
- No
(waves crashing)
- [Paul] Well you had bites not that long ago didn't ya.
- There hasn't been enough for the baits to be stripped.
So I can put two large hooks and the rest were all small.
- [Paul] Yeah, and big baits hey.
- [Ian] Big baits on the two big ones.
- [Paul] Yeah. - [Ian] But
- nothing bigger than my numb on the other one.
- [Paul] Yeah.
(waves crashing)
This could get exciting later on hey.
(waves crashing)
- Second cast of the day, had a few bites let it sit,
there was no hurry, no hurry to bring it in.
Certainly feels like there's something there though.
Very excited, can't wait.
(waves crashing)
Yeah there's a bit of weight there.
(waves crashing)
Yeah.
(waves crashing)
It's another little one.
(waves crashing)
- [Paul] Might be undersized hey,
- [Ian] Yeah
- [Paul] Oh that might be legal,
(waves crashing)
we'll give it a measure anyway hey.
- [Ian] Yep
(waves crashing)
- [Paul] Oh two.
- Two-- (waves drowns out Ian's reply)
(waves crashing)
How about that, second cast,
(waves crashing)
very productive,
can't wait for the next one.
(waves crashing)
Ah yeah, fits, somewhat did the last one hey,
to me the other one to (mumbles)
(waves crashing)
(wind rustling)
- [Paul] So worth remembering, over the top of the tide.
- Yeah
(waves crashing)
A perfect day,
- Overcast but, - [Paul] Yeah
- Still quite warm, the wind's dropped right off.
- [Paul] Two hours before dusk.
(waves crashing)
Yeah that wind wouldn't even be five knots now.
(waves crashing)
Just a little bit better hey, - [Ian] Yeah
(waves crashing)
How about that third cast, four fish,
(waves crashing)
this is my first time out, this is incredible.
(waves crashing)
And we got another rod nodding away
can't wait to see what that one yields.
- [Paul] So I quickly re-baited the gear
and got the gear heading out again.
And,
as that rod was being cast
we started getting some interesting bites
on the next rod down.
Now this is a very stiff rod,
it's actually had about 300mm broken off the top it
and we just put another eye on it.
- [Ian] First thing to pull line today.
(waves crashing)
- Check this swimming in,
(waves crashing)
it's a good fish.
(waves crashing)
(drone motors running)
(drone motors shutting down)
(waves crashing)
- There we go,
(Paul giggles)
it's starting to pull now.
What an introduction to drone fishing.
Four casts, fish on very cast,
(waves crashing)
this is exciting stuff.
(waves crashing)
We're using fresh mullet as bait,
but on this set we've got half a mullet head,
and a good chunk of the mullet gut on there too.
So it will be interesting to see, what this fish has taken.
(waves crashing)
First time today you're getting tight in the drag.
(Paul giggles)
(waves crashing)
This is so exciting it's the sort of thing
that turns non-fisherman into mad keen fisherman.
(waves crashing)
I'd heard how exciting, how fast and easy this was,
but I didn't believe it until I've seen it.
I see what all the fuss is about now.
(waves crashing)
For this style of fishing we always recommend
going hardy baits, fresh mullet is our go-to.
If you gotta go frozen, go squid or octopus,
(waves crashing)
we avoid soft baits like pilchards,
bonitos things like that,
they'll just come straight off the hook.
(Waves crashing)
Won't be a shark to fly and flat
- [Paul] Oh wow, that's a good fish
(waves crashing)
It looks like it could be more than one.
(waves crashing)
Oh it was it's tail, yeah it's a good fish.
- [Ian] Good Fish.
(waves crashing)
Way more than one.
- [Paul] Yeah, I can see three.
(waves crashing)
- [Ian] Plain perfect,
- [Paul] Four - [Ian] Four
(waves crashing)
(seagulls chirping)
(waves crashing)
- [Paul] Yeah, that's a nice fish.
(waves crashing)
- [Ian] How about that?
(waves crashing)
My first time drone fishing,
(waves crashing)
I've just caught my personal best.
What an amazing day,
four sets, seven fish,
(motor bike revving)
I'm pretty certain that's my personal best.
And we've still got the dusk set to do.
AEE drone,
500 metre sets,
six hooks a set,
two minutes a set.
- [Paul] Anyone can come to our free beach demonstrations,
and this time of year you'll be seeing fish like this.
This is the early October run of snapper,
moving down towards the Hauraki Gulf.
If you go to our website
www.fishingtacklesale.co.nz,
subscribe at the top right hand corner of any page,
we'll notify you where and when
the next demo will take place.
Hope to see you there,
and you never know you might even wind up with a fish.