Last week before back to school. We headed out to the water. Some hiking, play in the shallows, and yes, fishing. I will be the first to say, With a setting like this, you could pretty much sit there and catch nothing, and you could do a lot worse.


But we did not catch nothing. Even tho we did not know what it was we caught.

The local shop has a poster of "NZ Fishes" and we at first thought we had hooked up a scorpionfish.

But upon later reflection and reading, these were much more likely sea perch or what are at least locally known as Jock Stewarts.

Here's a close up of our ones, gone into the smoker and into our bellies.