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Fished around the Gannets just outside the Ruakaka river mouth this morning before the wind came up. Plenty of birds doing nothing but managed to land a 95cm est 12kg Kingfish in 12m of water on 8kg using a live Jack Mackeral.
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Nice one CS that would have been fun on 8kg!Clap
 
Will be out Sunday any other Bream Bay intel fishos??
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Nice kingie on the lighter gear Stan!

Heading up to one tree point tonight, any intel on the general area or suggested techniques?

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Ended up surf casting from the beach down by the refinary wharf today. The better half managed to snag a good trevally on her first cast but things were quiet from there with a small kahawai and plenty of baby snapper bites.

Beauty of a day to be out!



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That's a nice Trev, sushimi for dinner is it?
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Nice Trev , best sashimi for sure but even better after a day or two in the fridge. Can be a bit tough same day but the next day still crunchy like watermellon ... beautiful
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Cracking Trev FO. I was just thinking I'd like to get one for sashimi!
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A casual trip this morning. Late start with the wife in tow. Never really got on to the fish. Had a 34cm and a 32cm snapper at the Frenchman. A leatherjacket and a kahawai in the same area. Sad to see a freshly dead turtle on the surface. Lost no end of jigs Angry

Nice to see another ski out. Looked like a FX HO from a distance. 

Lovely weather. Good to be out, but not a serious trip Smile



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Great shot, same sort of weather over here on the kaipara, but I was working up in the hills.
Can't wait till some time off to swing the dingy over to limestone.
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Hope to be out sunday, thinking maybe Oceans area, any intel?
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If you are after Tarahihi, four of us got 40 or so last Saturday off the Old Woman. 
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Originally posted by rowboat bob rowboat bob wrote:

If you are after Tarahihi, four of us got 40 or so last Saturday off the Old Woman. 


Nice Bob any decent size? on a tide change put down a good size bait on a bigger hook as you may score a hapuku in that area.
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Originally posted by Catchelot Catchelot wrote:

[QUOTE=rowboat bob]If you are after Tarahihi, four of us got 40 or so last Saturday off the Old Woman. 


Nice Bob any decent size? on a tide change put down a good size bait on a bigger hook as you may score a hapuku in that area.

Otherwise we hope to may be have a look in Oceans area and Bullsht reef rather than down Bream Bay reefs.
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Reports have still been pretty thin on the ground for up here, Theres fish in the harbor, Shallows are fishing resonably well, Getting the usual reports of binned up around onerahi on 15lb snapper :) <<<--- gives me the giggles every time. 

 Bream apparently out around the 30m mark off Golf coarse, a few of the guys have binned up on good fish relatively quickly, and my offsider was saying the just off the shelf into 20m from ruakaka on Tuesday was fishing well and LOTS of sign between there and 3 mile reef. Bream is still pretty hit and miss. The guys fishing the evening off Ruakaka had been doing very well but it sounds like it may have slowed off in the last few days. 

Oceans around the broken foul and out to the 20m mark has been producing fish Awarua rocks produced some very nice fish earlier in the week as well. 

 Not getting a lot of reports in from the chicks but I would imagine killzone/battle ground areas would be starting to hot up, should be some ratty kings around the reefs and Hapuka should have made there way out onthe flats and contours 

Some good Kings out  at north reef and coastal fishing from kauri up look for areas where the foul and sand meet. 

 It's not been fast and furious with most people needing to work pretty hard for there fish but there's always that one that hammers it easy as! 

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Hi Catchalot, Yes we have caught Puka out there before. We did consider a small Tarakihi livebait but the fishing was so hot there was no time, suddenly the bin was full , the skipper sea sick ( not my boat ) so off home. The Tarakihi were just average size. You may even do even better off Oceans near one of the pins in 60m. Good luck.
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FB comments from Tony Orton;

Classic morning! two marlin swam past our boat in 40-50m off Bream bay!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had to cancel our offshore charter today so I shot out with Grant Dixon from NZ Fishing News magazine for a softbait mission in Bream Bay area. In the distance we saw a fin and brushed it off for a dolphin. Grant in joking said it looked like a marlin, a few minutes latter two marlin swam past the boat all lit up. We cast a softbait at them and that was it. 
I never go fishing with out live biat or my camera but today was the day I only took my light gear to chase snapper with a mate. Mean morning with snappers upto 6.5kg, heaps of ratl kings and two marlin by the boat. Fck NZ always surprizes me!
Cheers for a stuinning morning Mr D.
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Gonna have a look at the Chicks tomorrow, anyone been out?
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Have a drift through the war zone. Snapper are there on the bottom, they were slow on Tuesday but some big ones amongst them.
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Originally posted by CoastalStan CoastalStan wrote:

Have a drift through the war zone. Snapper are there on the bottom, they were slow on Tuesday but some big ones amongst them.

By that do you mean battleship reef? Yep we try there first and then have a play for kings if we get some livies.
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Hi all, have had a good few days in Parua Bay with a good feed of scallops and a couple of crays from the Heads.

Caught some snapper out at the Chicks, but haven't landed a legal-sized snapper in the channels near Parua Bay. Should I persist with fishing 5 mins from the bach in the hope of something decent, or is it a better use of time to head out of the harbour?

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