What a bag.... nice work HY.

Hard Yakker wrote: Thanks Hopkins, it was a fun day fishing.  For those who can get out this weekend, the waves and moon are favorable for catching a few from the yak.

Still got try your area,means a Okahu bay launch (fizz nasty) but got some painting do first.  Suprises how well the bays are fishing compared to the late 80s

Nice haul! Might drag the kayak out this weekend, I have been crook as for the last couple of weeks and trying to ramp up into a training block for the Auckland Marathon.

Got 5 nice gurnard this arvo but cheated and took boat as needed a run. No decent snapper even with half yellowtail deployed but quite pleasant afternoon. And just finished couple of gurnard fillets for tea.

Finally got out for a fish, seemed ages since I've been out to wet some lines
I fished east bastion reef on Sat afternoon 3-6pm
Plenty of fish, pretty much straight away, all undersize 28-31cm as many as you wanted

Its an unusual place to fish, similar to that of Meola reef, meaning, as the tide dropped, the tide flow direction would head in different directions.
At the start of the sesh, the tide was heading towards Ladies bay, then change its mind & head towards Takapuna followed by a back eddy then out towards Rangi lighthouse

The last 20mins I paddled over to the sth eastern end of the reef & finally got some fish in the bin, all around the 33cm size. Basically casting baits directly to the sunken reef.... squid best then fresh trev
Superb conditions out there, little bit bumpy on the surface with a slight ground swell coming in from Browns isl direction with a wicked sunset over north head

At ladies bay, one rock ledge had anglers almost shoulder to shoulder, there was that many of them rock fishing that place... didnt look like much was happening there


Hey ummmmm..... has anyone fished around where the old wharf used to be at St Heliers....apparently, dismantled before WW1
Some of the locals mentioned, you can still see where the old piles were at dead low spring tides.
I reckon further out, the old piles structure would make good fishing in the warmer months ?

squid can be a pain when you’re after snapper, but free bait is free bait i guess

NN under the cliffs off St Leonards Friday morning just gone incoming tide, both meat & dry berley down.... got 2 for the bin then it stopped
Fluffed around searching for a better spot for the outgoing, marked some new structure for next time on my maps
Got a couple macks in the live bait torpedo
Both meat & dry berley down again, few more going into the bin, then the live bait rod tip started twitching with the odd big lunge on the rod then nothing, then back to light twitches again
What to do... all these thoughts go thru your mind eh
I slowly upped the livie, on the surface was this donkey of a trev, missed the hook & took the live mack..... and that was it for the day as it completely stopped
In hindsight, I should have left it down there, till its either on or nothing..... have caught a few JDs there before in the past on livies
Keepers 33-36cm, plenty of undersize going back in the incoming & outgoing, good day out in the end

Bullet wrote: shaneg wrote: Got 5 nice gurnard this arvo but cheated and took boat as needed a run. No decent snapper even with half yellowtail deployed but quite pleasant afternoon. And just finished couple of gurnard fillets for tea. Have moved into a spot about 1km away from you Shane, south side.   Will head out for a fish tomorrow, how deep is the garden patch (at low tide)?