The Fishing Website : Discussion Forums : Coarse Fishing https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:54:06 +0000 Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:41:44 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.01 30 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/RSS_topic_feed.asp?FID=66 <![CDATA[The Fishing Website : Discussion Forums]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/ <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : tench session auckland]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122689&PID=1842718&title=tench-session-auckland#1842718 Author: smudge
Subject: tench session auckland
Posted: 23 Apr 2025 at 7:41pm

Originally posted by Philip4Frogs Philip4Frogs wrote:

 Yep. Stupid me...had another look and there it is 'just a size 20 mustad hook baited with bread on a 3m leader onto 10lb braid'. Thank you smudge. Tight lines. (with tench on them).Smile 

Good luck Froggy, let us know how you get on
]]> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:41:44 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122689&PID=1842718&title=tench-session-auckland#1842718 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : tench session auckland]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122689&PID=1842712&title=tench-session-auckland#1842712 Author: Philip4Frogs
Subject: tench session auckland
Posted: 23 Apr 2025 at 11:44am

 Yep. Stupid me...had another look and there it is 'just a size 20 mustad hook baited with bread on a 3m leader onto 10lb braid'. Thank you smudge. Tight lines. (with tench on them).Smile ]]> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:44:30 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122689&PID=1842712&title=tench-session-auckland#1842712 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : tench session auckland]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122689&PID=1842711&title=tench-session-auckland#1842711 Author: smudge
Subject: tench session auckland
Posted: 23 Apr 2025 at 11:02am

Originally posted by Philip4Frogs Philip4Frogs wrote:

Hello. I have had a similar experience but without the fish catching result. lol. I have fished there 3 different times this year so far. I won't know the lake for sure but i'm 90% confident we've got the same lake. Had never fished there before until now... Wow, 15 fish, that's brilliant. The big question is: what bait did you use? Please. 

The original poster isn't around these days but his post says he was using bread.
]]> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:02:07 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122689&PID=1842711&title=tench-session-auckland#1842711 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : tench session auckland]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122689&PID=1842710&title=tench-session-auckland#1842710 Author: Philip4Frogs
Subject: tench session auckland
Posted: 23 Apr 2025 at 8:23am

Hello. I have had a similar experience but without the fish catching result. lol. I have fished there 3 different times this year so far. I won't know the lake for sure but i'm 90% confident we've got the same lake. Had never fished there before until now... Wow, 15 fish, that's brilliant. The big question is: what bait did you use? Please. ]]> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:23:20 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122689&PID=1842710&title=tench-session-auckland#1842710 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : Big Perch]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41661&PID=1835324&title=big-perch#1835324 Author: 064pointbreak
Subject: Big Perch
Posted: 30 Oct 2023 at 10:01pm

Originally posted by Fishb8 Fishb8 wrote:

Just seen this thread.

I used to go lake fishing in Ireland at uncles place. I was from the UK - only knew how to bait fish with worms. Caught numerous to 3 1/2 lb and we ate them...better than trout!

Recently I've been out perch fishing at Hamilton Lake with a mate who has pancreatic cancer. Spinning is great for him as he can have a fish and sit down on the benches for a rest.
We have caught lots on a mix of lures: Rapalas, veltics, black toby and Storm soft plastics. I clip off the underside trebles and catch them on the in-body top hook.
The trout colours work well but the rainbow seems better.
We haven't caught any big ones but we do find it very relaxing and my mate loves it - very therapeutic, indeed. We get loads of people stopping to chat and ask lots of questions.
Loads of Pokemon hunters at the moment!!
This was last Wednesday

 

Well that's because they love to gorge on trout fry if there's a chance.]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2023 22:01:27 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41661&PID=1835324&title=big-perch#1835324 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : Perch no longer a recognised IGFA species.]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123848&PID=1834245&title=perch-no-longer-a-recognised-igfa-species#1834245 Author: Fishb8
Subject: Perch no longer a recognised IGFA species.
Posted: 08 Aug 2023 at 9:57am

Koi carp are officially noxious so no rules on catching, only that you must kill one if you catch it.
Go for it - I've jagged them with a weighted treble and cast into a school of them at Te Rapa dairy factory warm water outlet. There are koi and mullet there.

]]> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:57:30 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123848&PID=1834245&title=perch-no-longer-a-recognised-igfa-species#1834245 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : Perch no longer a recognised IGFA species.]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123848&PID=1834123&title=perch-no-longer-a-recognised-igfa-species#1834123 Author: Reel Deal
Subject: Perch no longer a recognised IGFA species.
Posted: 01 Aug 2023 at 6:29am

With the cost of bait on a constant march upwards I’m thinking of targeting carp again. This time I might net them. Will have to check the rules around it first. ]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:29:12 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123848&PID=1834123&title=perch-no-longer-a-recognised-igfa-species#1834123 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : Perch no longer a recognised IGFA species.]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123848&PID=1834110&title=perch-no-longer-a-recognised-igfa-species#1834110 Author: Fishb8
Subject: Perch no longer a recognised IGFA species.
Posted: 30 Jul 2023 at 10:32am

I found that perch were easier to catch in May to July in Hamilton lake.]]> Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:32:06 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123848&PID=1834110&title=perch-no-longer-a-recognised-igfa-species#1834110 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : Perch no longer a recognised IGFA species.]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123848&PID=1833904&title=perch-no-longer-a-recognised-igfa-species#1833904 Author: 064pointbreak
Subject: Perch no longer a recognised IGFA species.
Posted: 11 Jul 2023 at 1:08pm

To: Wanda_Ra
Smallmouth bass require colder water than Largemouth Bass. I wouldn't ask the government to add pike into the waters because they have sharp teeth, and anglers have to tie on wire traces to make sure the pike won't bite thru the line!
I'm looking forward to seeing bass in the Waikato region(Lake Karapiro), but I'm doing a bit of research since the water here is 12-13°C(53-55°F). which is too cold for the bass to reproduce once established, but I think they'll get used to the water temperature through generations. 
Bass Fishing In 40-50 Degree Water: Are Bass Easy To Catch?
The lower areas of the lake from the ski club down to the dam wall would be ideal bass territory, other than the upstream part of the lake where the trout are. And speaking of trout, they are there because they like cooler and faster water than bass.
And given the swarms of Rudd, koi and perch in the lake, the amount of prey items they naturally eat must surely be severely impacting the amount of food available for the trout to eat when they are young, so adding a predator to the lake would likely hugely improve the fishery, or at least the trout recruitment. I would imagine that the introduction of largemouth bass to the lake would basically lead to a nil all draw.
In fact, I suspect the bass may be even more fun to fish for than the trout, like fishing swimbaits along the hotspots, working topwater lures under trees to gain blowups so we have to get Marine Deals and other tackle stores in the Waikato Region to supply swimbaits, frogs, crankbaits, and all that from America, Australia and Japan.  Yes, bass will eat small trout, as well as the masses of Rudd, but the bass will move to the upper area of the lake due to a sudden drop in coarse fish numbers If the bass would've established themselves in the area, they'll control the amount of rudd and other coarse fish, keeping trout numbers in check, and decrease the size of rudd.
Since I live in North Shore and it's winter, the perch aren't active feeders, so I would like to have bass in Lake Pupuke to control coarse fish populations, making the lake free for the trout to swim in. But that too, will have disastrous effects
]]> Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:08:11 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123848&PID=1833904&title=perch-no-longer-a-recognised-igfa-species#1833904 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing : Perch in lake Rotomanu / New Plymouth, April 23]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=137629&PID=1832948&title=perch-in-lake-rotomanu-new-plymouth-april-23#1832948 Author: Roland56
Subject: Perch in lake Rotomanu / New Plymouth, April 23
Posted: 30 Apr 2023 at 12:25pm

Tell me where the Rotomanu perch have gone......

Surprise surprise, an amazing one. I fished this lake a lot for perch in 2022, the last time in November 22. There was lots of perch as well as quite a lot of fishermen that targeted them. Many Asian guys, Kiwi fathers with their children, or some enthousiast like me that just like to eat perch. They was normally not big, but the odd one got well over 30 cm. They was quite easy to catch on softbait.

And now, April 28th to this moring, April 30st: 1 perch of 30 cm, about 4 greedy small ones almost the size of the softbait... not one fisherman on the lake early morning or at dusk nor during the day. But, quite a lot of shag, shag, not shark! These big black cormorants that eat about 0.5 to 1 kg of fish a day per bird. This morning there was 12 of them hunting. We get them in the thousands in Switzerland and they clan out whole stretches of rivers or smaller lakes. They are a protected species since they was very rare to be seen in the country 10-15 years back!



Lake Rotomanu: Maybe I just got the wrong lures... maybe, I really fish a lot for perch all over the world and in NZ. Being from Switzerland I love these fish. They are the most looked for native fish in our restaurants.... nothing of bony or muddy or whatever a pest fish should be. Here it's a pest, but belive me, dear Kiwi fishermen, it is a very nice to eat pest fish!  Ask the French, Germans, Austrians, Swiss,  etc. in Europe.



Is there anybody in the New Plymouth area that could enlighten me? Well, today we have chicken from Count Down, no perch, for dinner! Hopefully tomorrow some John Dory then!

Cheers Roland


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