On the 1st of April, I phoned the National Police Centre to ask if I was still aloud to net fish off my houseboat balcony during this lockdown. I explained that this is where I am sleeping until we can get building supplies to repair the old farmhouse where the weather is coming in through the roof and rotten windows. I was told no fishing allowed period. I am not going to break this law even though I can see no logic in it...therefore there will be no more fishing or fishing videos that have been recorded after the 1st of April sorry

Cheers mate

Nice 😊 mate cheers

Need a 🌶 mustard sauce w that one man 👌🏼🤤

Just love your videos.If you're up in Auckland any time be great to take you out for a fish;-)

What an absolute legend, eating sprats my man!!

Jesus mate, one can only envy your choice of isolation bro, nature will provide. Thoroughly enjoy your videos, it qualms that roaming nature in us all. Stay safe

Try some bread for bait and a small hook to catch the bigger yellow eye mullet, loved catching them as a young bloke, butterfly fillet and coat them in bread crumbs. Good luck

Fresh fish and vegetables what more can you ask for your isolated in paradise mate stay safe

Loving all the updates. Glad to see you and yours are safe and healthy. Hope you keep up alright mate. Much love from Aus.

Nice, replacement for prawn i reckon

Living the life there mate

Loving the videos. Thanks Clay

You can use a sabiki with bread or little bits of squid on your hook for the mullet and you can put oats in the water to berly them

You should brand and sell those. Clay's Crackling. I'd buy heaps of 'em!

Love your daily Vlogs.

Clay, you are the absolute best !!

Good on ya mate!

They looked amazing mate

I used to think that Houseboat was pretty average many moons ago,like when you got drifting in the horror episode (recommend watching that) but now I see it and what your doing and your Father's skills and where it is I'm like shit thats such a cool setup sooo beautiful and peaceful Love it!

Great vid clay mate good seeing you speaking with the man on the kayak and your fish salad looked awesome mate well in 👍

Great video ! Just got home from fishing in Auckland level 4 lockdown, got me x3 yellow eyed mullets , great size too...always wanted to know how people eat them/cook them lol and watching this @1.15am makes me wanted to go and cook them the same way you did it ! Ha

Hi "Clay", good video. Your houseboat collects enough water to fill your 400 litre tanks if you can keep birds off (use deterrence devices). Your onboard garden can be widely expanded. I have noticed that there is plenty of light coming into the houseboat. I was impressed with the planter boxes you put up on the side of your house, the cabbages? You should have some boxes with water reservoir bases onboard so they do not end up like the Camelia! Radishes are very fast growing and as you know, great to eat! ...have you considered using the leaves in a salad? Lots of herbs will grow well onboard with good soil. I saw you scratching around to get some old chicken poo, & I was scratching my head saying "Clay, what about the sheep!" Sheep poo is fantastic for boosting and rejuvenating your poor looking soil (going by the colour and texture of what you & the nephew were working with in the black pots. I am in Sydney Australia and I'm pretty sure Opera house nets (your one) have now been banned (only in fresh waters) to protect our Platypus & native rare freshwater crayfish population. When I was a kid, I just collected washed up plastic soft drink bottles, cut off the pointy end, cut little holes all around and just reversed the top I cut off which fits snugly into the bottle! (Bread is good for attracting mullet). After a long while of catching poddy Mullet and yellowtail for live & dead bait I found it more effective to cut off the top neck of the bottle, still having it curved inwards to prevent losses and I started DOUBLING my haul! Trash to treasure mate, we need to do this more! I heard about the hunting ban (from you), I understand where the government is coming from, but have we forgotten years gone by? You will remembet just 30 years ago there was no mobile network, no GPS, 60Yrs ago almost no emergency services and hardly ever emergency extraction! We need to stop being so reliant on emergency services and be more self sufficient! You are free to spread your flounder net far and wide and do any houseboat fishing that was legal before the lockdown. Keep well Clay, stay safe.

proper fish fingers

How cool is that kayak mate

That does look tasty I might try that with the sprats maybe some thai flavourings.

Great video mate, I love my yellow eye mullet after this period of restriction I think I'll be out chasing a few

Hey clay. I cam up with a idea for you to maybe dig up a big hole somewhere on your land and raise fish for yourself? Like a small pond maybe

thanks

Why dont you just have a cheap kids rod set up with a sabiki always ready to go mate? Mullet for days and a bit more fun to catch than netting

Awsome vid, awsome place to be on the water, able to fish and a fire place to keep warm during lockdown

what u need for those mullet is a Fishing bow or a cast net

Clay are they fish wee Mackerel. Thumbs up ! for all ur videos Bro All the best fae Scotland

hi mate can you use long lines be great for floundes

Wb using a spear for some flounder? Dang was hanging out to see flounder too haha. My all time favorite fish dish. 🤤🤤 💯

O for Osome

😂 not that of course id know what that looks like 😁

Nice one clay the The house garden looks Great mate. Awesome your living well mate good stuff👍

Details of your trap be cool reckon could use one with my yak here in UK.

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i have one of them nets

Ha clay y don't you put a weight out off your stern at low tide with a pulley on and return rope then you can pull your net out when fish when tides in .

My friend you should be isolating not fishing, sorry for that but our country's on lockdown

Make awesome video lucky you put a net out set sail on that canoe I'm going to make 1 if I can find the KZfaq link to the video I'm going to make it off I will share it to you bro really simple the trick is getting the mask placement right on the canoe if you're interested in getting one made or making one yourself

Hey clay mean vids I’m getting through them, (daily at the mo) how do I get on to patron? Do you have more there?

How far is the farm from the houseboat.

Mate you're taking a real risk not adhering to the lockdown rules, then posting video of it here. Anyone could link this to the 105covid19 web site then you might get a visit from the police.

So you got 3$ worth of fuck all for 9$ of bearly?? 😂😂Gummm on

STAY HOME!!!

Clay iam sorry to say this but the diet your on u WAY to skinny and don't look healthy. I pray u feel better than u look.