caught this one a couple weeks ago. been doing other stuff and have not been fishing since.

Nice Danny, that's a solid fish!

Fresh water fish we get here are brown and rainbow trout and pacific salmon.
Also get a huge variety of salt water fish.

I'll see if i can dig up some photos if anyone is interested?

Bloat any dead animal and they'll all pluck fairly easy !!!

Here are photos of a few of the species we get over here...

Brown trout



Snapper



Butterfish (Greenbone) get these spearfishing



Flounder and herring, get these drag netting



Blue Moki another species we getting spearfishing

which is your favorite?

Eating would have to be butterfish or snapper.

Nothing quite like fooling a crafty brown trout though!

Butterfish from our last dive..

Those butterfish are a interesting looking fish . I helped out at the local Walleye's Unlimited Chapters Kids Fishing Day it's certainly a great time getting kid's thinking about something other then their cell phone or computer game.
For the brown trout are you fly fishing or casting lures ?
Allan

Hello Allan,

Yes butterfish are interesting looking, they feed solely on kelp and the dark colour of them helps them blend in.
100% agree on getting kids out and about, much more to life than games and cellphones!

For the brown trout mainly casting lures, but do a little bit of fly fishing. However, not that proficient at it yet

Little brother got another 5 possums last weekend, pretty good strike rate. Set 7 traps connected on 5.

That's quite a mixed lot of colors that he collected ! And a good catch rate also .

The kids fishing day went well everyone had a great time and caught fish , the next day I caught a 10+ lbs walleye after getting it to the boat took a couple pictures then released her so she could make more walleye's .
I'll see if I can post the picture later .

Thank you for sharing your trap line with us !
Allan

Thanks Allan.

Good to hear that the kids fishing day was a success, look forward to seeing a photo of your 10lb'er!

Got another 9 possums over the weekend from 14 traps

Some are starting to molt now so will likely pull the traps soon.

Few photos below...

Good catch!!! Thank you for sharing the pictures, keep posting them they as re interesting!!

I killed a few of those when I was in new Zealand, vastly different than our possums, one of the best things I have ever got to watch was in new Zealand, it was a possum toss. They would gather up a pile of dead possums and let the kids throw them, whoever threw them the farthest was the winner. The anti's here in America would have lost their feces.

Put the traps out again this weekend, Saturday morning had connected on 2 possums and Sunday morning 4 possums.

Photos below.

That's a good run for over the weekend on possums ! It's a good thing getting those youngen's out to help on the trap line !

Keep up the good work !
Allan

Great job NZ!!!!! Nice to see kids outside!!!

Awesome photos, thanks for sharing!! NZ, on my bucket list!

Great job on the opossum ! Oh and sorry about your little brother, he must be one ugly little bugger having to blur his picture and all . Lol !

But on a more serious note is the color difference due to age or sex or ?