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seen them in close and hooked one.

this was at motuihe, leigh and omaha and they were in schools

Let me know how you get on Dan - I will be doin it out off there tommorrow morning, hope the southerlies sod off and don't put 'em off too much. Will be a mill pond later I think... good luck 

Was talking to a guy at work today he was telling me of an undercover fisheries/kayaker at eastern beach.Apparently he has a huge telescope in his house and watches people fishing and if he sees little ones cumming up hes out there in the yak in no time. found this pretty funny 

good work muppet.

Good one Dan. Bout time she started to spark up in the NN shallows eh. Beaut morning out there right. Shame I have to work but at least its the last day.

Good stuff Dan - I went out today off NN but it was a bit bloody frustrating to be honest. Weather perfect (despite being SW winds) but fish just not aggro at all - they were there though just not biting. Got 3 about the 35cm mark over 3 hours so got a feed at least but all caught way at the back end of drift, not on the drop like last week. Hookup rate not that flash either, lost a couple of really good string pullers. Quite a few boats barrelling through there too, bit like russian roulette at times but I guess its to be expected fishing in the channel.  

Went out on a millpond off Purerua this morning before the forecast NW came through - couple of pannies in the 35-40cm range, dropped too many as the glue obviously wasn't strong enough. Not many fat KY around which surprised me, but at least the many-tentacled menace seems to have buggered off.

Satay was the theme up here, but the ones I have seem to be a little softer than the normal brew and found they were tending to mush as I jammed them onto the jighead barbs, so changed to wormies and no problem.

Anyone else found the occasional custard consistency Gulps?

About midday the NW arrived almost instantly, all 25-30kn of it.  With the drogue alternating between being collapsed by breakers, creating vortices at full stretch and 1.5m breaking faces coming full tilt over the bow causing me to sit in my own paddling pool - (To the guys at OK: Bigger scuppers on the next model please) decided fishing had lost its appeal for the day, so gear in and had fun in the washing machine for a half hour or so (I love that black smudge on the display when the transducer clears the water as you crest a wave )

Had to time the rentry to not only allow for the surf, but a couple of kite boarders who were whizzing back and forward along the bay...reminded me of the old Frogger game where you had to dodge the traffic.

Got home 5 hours ago and still swaying

Heres a quickie when I had the chance to put the paddle down for a few seconds  Great Fun!

were you in the channel muppet? what sort of hook was it?