I just read the news article Eric was on about.

Wicked.... I never heard about that....  about bloody time they did something about Pukerua Bay, its been strip-mined for years by certain people who shall remain unlabelled but let me say that make up a big proportion of the population in Porirua.  And before you call me a racist I've seen it too many times for it to be a generalisation.  I'm just telling it how it is.  And yea I have called MoF. 

Good on Ngati Toa and the residents I reckon! 

Top marks.

Saus,

I am not a shore fisher, so don't really know what the hell I am talking about  on this one...... but, from what I know about boat fishing around the place, it may help.

Your best bet is to get a boat.

Likely shore based spots between Waikanae and Pukerua Bay are:

Near shell fish beds - there are some really good one along the beach in Raumati.  Look for the number of shells on the beach.  Near low tide there may be some gutters between the bars that are fishable.  I would use tuatuas or crab as bait.

Near fishermans table - this is roughly where the sandy beach transitions into the hard shore.  I know snapper are taken from the beach here, a quite a number from boats arond about there.  There are probably heaps of spots around this bit of the rocky coast.

Try the Fishing News map guide in any baot shop and mos gas stations.

Matt B

as much as people dont usually want to pass on their fishing spots. we are new to the area and wondered what surf casting is like down here. Can anybody point us in the direction of a couple of spots to try from??

Many thanks

Cookie,

We haven't gotten out for ages.

Did you try for a snapper?

Where?

Water temperature?

Things are looking good with respect to tide times later this week.  Hope to get out for an evening fish using really good bait at the change of light. 

The snapper are there, I have seen them on the sounder, I just can't get them to take anything.  Thinking that if I offer up fresh kahawai, crab, squid, pillie, and perhaps mussels or even paua, they will take something.  They have to eat when it is cold too.  I would like to try prawns, as I reckon they would be all over these, trouble is I am too and they cost too much to use as bait. 

Fished on Sunday in the sprigtime challenge.
Started off aeroplane island and couldnt get a legal size fish to save our selves. Moved around to half a dozen other spots with the same result.
Come 1.00pm and not one keeper and the mood on board was getting fairly tense with all jokes now being taken personal. Had lunch and parked up on the south side of browns, for the hour each side of the top of the tide. 
Finally the first keeper on board a nice 320mm terakihi and away it went. Next hour and a half we bagged 25 terakihi in all and a nice 2.8kg trevally.
Entered 9 fish at the way in between the 3 of us and split the rest up for tea. No snapper caught this day of the competiton but with the weather the way it was over the weekend, just bloody good to be able to get out.

 

Hi Paul

you asked if there's a secret to nailing warehou. Can't thnk of any . Often a by catch of bottom fishinf but the commercial guys usually set net 2-3 metres off the bottom to catch them.

Telltale sign of when you have one on thugh is if it takes off you make have yards of line to wind in before it catches up as speed is a strong point of these guys.

If shorebased you never get a strike these guys unless winding flat out with a lure on 4:1.

On the Westcoast probably peak in numbers around March-april with the snapper.

Lance

Anyone trying the boat city spring challenge this weekend?

Matt
Can't say I have used crabs for bait, Guy I met the other day suggested stuffing a squid with tuatuas, as you do with a pilchard, so keen to give that a shot. We have used pipis for a ground bait off the back of the boat and seems to be fairly successfull and cheap. Just open the shells and send them over and lay a good patch.