Fishing Reports

 

The action has been mostly quiet over the last month, with sea temperatures down at 15Cto 16C. This has meant reduced activity by snapper and less feeding, though a school of good fish still hangs around Capstan Reef and provides some action when they finally decide to feed. Best results otherwise have come from land based and small boat anglers fishing close in to the rocks. Kingies have also been a bit quiet, with barracoutta taking most of the livies up at Rocky Point. We have had some success on the various foul areas off Redhead, and some good fish have also been taken at the Hole in the Rock. The compensation in close has been good catches of John Dory, so if things are a bit slow, try out a small livey close to the bottm. There is also thhe chance of a kingi or big snapper on the same rig. Hapuka have been very kind to us out wide, and we have also been catching some smaller longnose while terakihi fishing in 70M. Terakihi are plentiful and in good supply onmost of the reef fringes out from Urupukapuka, but seem to have moved off the grounds around Onslow that provided so much action last month. The tuna longline fleet seems to be having difficulty finding any quantity of tuna, but hopefully prospects out wide will improve with warmer water temperatures over the next month. As always drop me an email at MAJOR.TOM@xtra.co.nz if you have any queries.

 

From Major Tom II

Report type: Saltwater

Report date: 08 October 02