Hey guys, Morgan here from Paul's Fishing Systems. Here we are arriving at Karioitahi beach.
Out with the Predator today.
Here's Nathan setting up and Kaleb on the camera, let's see how they get on.
Couldn't get any fresh mullet on our way in so we're using salted mullet.
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As with all of our fishing we are using our Target Snapper Hooks,
scientifically proven to catch more legal size less undersized snapper
as well as being great for other species like gurnard, trevally and kahawai.
Today we're using the Predator auto nav kontiki, so this is a 54 pound auto steering kontiki.
These self-steering kontikis make getting through this west coast surf a lot easier.
So your main weight gets clipped on first before your traces, and then you've got your stoppered
section. You put one trace on let two stops go, so there's always a gap in between your traces
so that they do not come together and tangle. Another thing you can do to help prevent tangles
is not hooking your baits directly through the middle, hook them through once through one end.
Here's the PFS 230 watt Kontiki Kite winch, it's the most powerful kontiki winch on the market.
Packing up Seahorse. Check out what the boys got.
Look at that look at that, old Nato's taking the glory.
Choice too good bro. So the Seahorse kontiki is another brand kontiki that we sell in store,
so the GPS system on that is still self-steering but it runs on a GPS
system rather than an autopilot system like the Predator, which uses a compass direction. The
kontikis that use a compass direction like the Bullet, the Predator, and many other ones,
you have to allow for the current if you want to get them out dead straight.
Here we go we're out here at one of our beautiful west coast beaches and
I've just sent the surf caster out there hoping to hoping to get a fresh kahawai to be honest,
because then we'll stick him on the next set on the kontiki.
So yeah, the conditions are pretty pretty crazy today, it's been raining and then when the rain
stops the sand flies come out, so less than ideal but hey when you're out
on the beach doing what we're doing, it is still a very very good day indeed so
yeah just I'm going to let this first set on the kontiki soak for about half an hour
and then uh we'll bring it back in and I'll give you a good look into how we
get everything set up to be sent out there so, yeah, nice to be out here nice to be out here
and hopefully we can show you some fish coming up on deck soon. Okay first set coming back in.
You can see the angle on this line here, that's telling us that we were very underweighted.
All right, so here we go, first set done. I had to run down the beach to pull in our kontiki so I
didn't get to capture it, but we've got a small snapper, a very nice kahawai, which is going to be
fresh bait for this next set. The tide's going out and there's a bit of a north current
that we're faced with today so what we're going to do on this next set is send it
to the left a bit more, and see if we can get a little bit longer on
the soak time out wide. So yeah, so far so good. Fresh bait coming right up
One of the only baits that we prefer over fresh mullet is just caught kahawai. Nice firm
flesh, tough skin stays on the hook very well, and snapper love it.
So explain to us how you set up these kontikis bro for fishing. Yes so basically the kontiki is a
point and go. It works on an electronic compass, so basically you put it in the direction you
want to go, set the compass, and lock in the bearing and then start the motor. Basically
run time means distance yeah? Distance yeah, so 10 minutes it should travel about
900 meters give or take. Right 10 minutes 900m. All right and we're looking at doing a...
I'm gonna try a 10 minute run. Right 10 minutes okay.
Nice all right, let's do, it let's do it.
Oh yeah so that's locked your course, nice.
Whoo okay okay, this is a 900m set. Let's get it
Here we go. He'll basically just flip that start stop switch again.
Start the motor and off she goes 900 meters out. Starting it up, and away she goes.
Just like that. Now what you'll notice here is every time it goes through some of the
the chop or some of those waves, he'll pull a bit of tension on that line, as you can see
in this one we've set it to the left, hoping to negotiate a bit of that north current that's
coming through so the current is pushing us to the right, so what we figured is if we can
get 900 meters out on the left hand side of us, then when that current starts to push it over,
we'll get a better soak time out wide. So that's the theory anyway, we'll see how it goes.
So main weight on again, unfortunately we didn't bring any bigger sinkers this day, but with the
kontiki offset to the left, and nice fresh kahawai as our bait, we should do a lot better on the set.
Fresh kahawai mate look at that, beautiful.
There we go. She's out there now.
We are fishing. Putting that clip back on.
Choice. Battery's plugged in.
Nice and straight this set, look at that.
Sinker
Yes sir, gurney
Good gurney.
Okay oh nice panny.
Cool
We got a little shark. A little rig shark, nice.
Oh it's another gurnard, an even bigger gurnard. Check them out. Let's go
See how the legs move on the bottom.
Very cool
Let's see another little rig shark. Oh is that a, no that's a little bronzy. I'll take him off.
Send him back out. He's gone.
Yo
Bringing them back in. Okay set number two.
A few fish in the bin, I think we've got time for one more set, so see you soon.
Okay we're gonna have to call it a day I think. She is bucketing down.
So yeah that's us. Been a primo day, but yeah, we're gonna pack up now
Choice. That's us we're gonna head home now.
Yeah a couple of gurnard, a couple of snapper a few that we had to put back, rig shark, lemon fish
Awesome afternoon, couple of hours out here. It's probably an hour and a half before low tide
which is when I was really wanting to put our last bait out, but she's bucketing down, so yeah
we're off home now, and yeah I'll see you guys again in the next adventure.
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