Thanks HY. The error and trial is pain, but I'll have to come through. Have to admit that the permutation of fishing factors seem overwhelming to me. Do you bring various tackles and change them during the day?

Went to Campbells Bay with 2 mates this morning, looking to reproduce some of your results. But I forgot my softbaits, plus the outriggers for one yak newbie. Luckily it was glassy, he had no problem on the water.

I used Ocean Angler flea silver 28g and orange 21g, a 60g slider on 3 rods. Generally it was quiet. Orange hooked a 29cm snapper about 500m from rocks, then moved to 1000m, and then back to 500m towards Mairangi Bay, the silver hooked3 tiny snappers. I moved back to rock, but no more bites.

Weather was nice, so it is still a good one.

Hard Yakker wrote: <div dir="ltr" -setdir="false" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Nice bag of fish Hopkins. <div dir="ltr" -setdir="false" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Two gurnies and three little snapps was all I could manage today, I didn't see you there today Chee... it got a bit squally and cold actually, but settled down for my trip back in. <div dir="ltr" -setdir="false" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">There's a move going on down in the bay, the snapps are passing the baton to the gurnies, but there's little of either at the minute. I'm looking forward to next month, the water according to my Garmin was 12.5c today.<div dir="ltr" -setdir="false" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">

Good catch. I was not there. Couldn't ask for more as the missus already gave a lot fishing tickets. Work, kids. Maybe it is all the restrictions make fishing attractive, and may get bored if it's too convenient

Telecaster wrote: Took monday off (birthday) and popped up north a bit for a morning strayline off the kayak. Fishig was OK early on, kept 3 snapper, 60CM, 52CM, 50 CM. Lots of barely legal snapper around and some monster kahawai. Snapper in awesome condition.

Thats a good birthday prezzy there Tele, decent fish too

Pretty consistent there Hard Yakker, you certainly know your local


I did an evening mish off Narrowneck under the cliffs last week & got skunked doing baits
Water was like a washing machine, nothing breaking or any white caps, just lumpy from all directions
On the way out, the yak didn't track straight, hardly any breeze, got to my spot, throwbacks straight away up to 32cm
Got really uncomfortable & gave up after 45mins..... spent most of that 45mins at anchor trying to keep my balance, no water coming over the side or anything like that

I fished the Manukau 15 times this year, its usually glass calm for the few hrs after dawn then it might chop up..... I didn't know that I could lose my sea legs like I did at Narrowneck


What's happened with Dan, his posts are missing as well

Nice work. They are good ones.

Hey Chee, if you have decided to not use bait then go with that, why not? The techniques you are currently exploring, small metal lures and sliders will catch you gurnard, you can also use bait on your slider, Cosmo was doing that yesterday, although I didn't see what he caught because I paddled miles out... you can drift or you can anchor, take your pick and learn to do that, but I like to use what Shane uses, a dropper rig with recurve hooks and small pieces of bait at anchor. 

Hi HY, I may try fishing this arvo, weather is prime. 

Hey guys, any tips for targeting gurnard off the bays
Ive never fished north of narrowneck.... well, only twice at Sullies on club trips (1 snap & skunked)
Missed out last season on a couple of invites from Muppet to join his crew, they all cleaned up
cheers