I find my fish finder more useful as a sonar indicating contour lines, with my new unit I can see sign on the bottom and schools moving through, but I have little idea f what they are...I think they're kahawai and I catch a snapper, I think they're snapper and I catch gurnard.

Far out, donkey fish... sure is a fatty
Ive been using this as a measure scale

Great fish Dave. Well done.

Narrrowneck yesterday, hard going, heaps of undersize
Found a nice reef where everyone seems to go past it, going out wide, plenty of sign on & around it.
Just as the bite came on 8-10 swimmers come over, one close enough for me to dong her on the head with my paddle
They rest up 100m away, then straight over the strike zone
Anyways, fish just back on the bite, another lot of swimmers pass me again, fark
Paddled over to the shallows under the cliffs, last baits got the big fala
Best baits were, re-frozen many times the one kahawai I got out of the manukau few months back, surprizingly, very firm bait, refrozen squid, fresh mullet, salted pillies nothing.
Keepers low 30s & the big fala
Water was 14.3 - 14.8

I shouldn't have gone out, but I'm bloody well addicted.

Are there game fish at Little Barrier in Spring, whatever it would have been beautiful out there today, so good medicine I'm sure, as for eaters, if you like the taste of the 35cm snapps you can save a bit on fuel down at the local.

Dave go on BOP site and see catching snapper on bibbed lures on latest report.

Hey Reel Deal, yes yak fishing is the way to go on a budget, especially if you can wheel it to the water, and you use the same Zman all day, as I often do.

Hi HY

The water visibility and  the wind were pretty good this morning.It was the first time I've been out since mid Sept, so it was fun to be flicking soft baits again.