18/2/2017 6:45 - 13:00
After numerous attempts to get some points on the board in our Manukau Kingie comp my mate finally popped his Manukau cherry on Saturday.
We have always struggled to get livies in the Manukau. I suppose its because we lack the patience to go through tonnes of tiny snapper on sabikis. So we decided to drag the net a couple of times at Cornwallis resulting in Piper, KY and YEM's to add to our arsenal.
Off we headed in high hopes in search of Shane's honey hole that has produced so well in these pages (or Waynes Honey Pot if you ask him..).
We caught the last of the outgoing and deployed our livies at depth and began the drifts. Sign looked good with the odd large arch positioned off the bait schools, but for whatever reason they would not take our offerings. Large schools of piper were seen breaking the surface to further tease us but no cigar. One large KY gave me a breif glimmer of hope but it soon became obvious this was no Kingie.
Once the tide began to turn the call was made to head further out in search of dinner which was soon secured. Not to be put of with the lack of Kingies we tried one last spot off Kaitarkihi on the return to Cornwallis, but after an hour of no show on the incoming, the call was made to head home.
As we rounded Puponga point we began to feel a sense of failure or rather a continued lack of success. So we joked about dropping a jig on each of the 3 markers poles. I am not gonna tell you exactly which one produced but put it this way.. there is only really three to choose from between Puponga point and Cornwallis wharf.
The little mouse went 87cm and yes... that is a 400grm jig that we caught it on in 8m of water... go figure! Either way its 1 nil and I better catch up!
Inner City Slayers.