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Good work HY. Consistent as always.

Yes this page thing is very annoying, i think it's a conspiracy to silence us yak fishers..... I see a few yakers have taken over the maukau harbor page 😜.
Got out on the boat with the family last Saturday but just couldn't find a quiet spot anywhere for a sofbait with the kids , so headed back to Motuihe where I had dropped the wife with little one. Counted 100 boats at Motuihe! Really not my thing so we came home to avoid the madness at ramp. After all the boat admin I couldn't be bothered loading up yak so enjoyed a few beers and stared at the boat and realized it might be time to let her go.
Anyways, heading out in the morning... excited as.
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Well they say sometimes you've gotta go back to go forward so us Aucklanders yakers will have to continue this 2 steps back one step forward thing until who knows when ???.

Paddled out in the dark and things looked fishy. Turns spread out everywhere diving sporadically but that was where the fishyness ended. Was a hard 4hrs on the water for 5 snaps. Can't complain, mate got skunked and took off early at 9am. The softbait out the back dragging on the bottom got fish of the day at 40cm, the rest went 35cm.
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Originally posted by Hopkins Hopkins wrote:

Well they say sometimes you've gotta go back to go forward so us Aucklanders yakers will have to continue this 2 steps back one step forward thing until who knows when ???.

Paddled out in the dark and things looked fishy. Turns spread out everywhere diving sporadically but that was where the fishyness ended. Was a hard 4hrs on the water for 5 snaps. Can't complain, mate got skunked and took off early at 9am. The softbait out the back dragging on the bottom got fish of the day at 40cm, the rest went 35cm.
Nice work for a hard day, I really like the yakka reports cause I like to fish out of my little quintrex so similar fishing.
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Originally posted by Kandrew Kandrew wrote:

Originally posted by Hopkins Hopkins wrote:

Well they say sometimes you've gotta go back to go forward so us Aucklanders yakers will have to continue this 2 steps back one step forward thing until who knows when ???.

Paddled out in the dark and things looked fishy. Turns spread out everywhere diving sporadically but that was where the fishyness ended. Was a hard 4hrs on the water for 5 snaps. Can't complain, mate got skunked and took off early at 9am. The softbait out the back dragging on the bottom got fish of the day at 40cm, the rest went 35cm.
Nice work for a hard day, I really like the yakka reports cause I like to fish out of my little quintrex so similar fishing.

Test to see what is going on with this forum, 4 blank pages after this one 
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It was tough going for me out there on Sunday. I headed off from Shakespear Regional Park early on Sunday morning, just after sunrise. Fished for 2.5 hours and managed 6 snapper. All were however around, or just under 30cm, so they all went back and I went home empty handed. I generally only keep fish if they are 33cm or over.  

Maybe the older wiser fish are smart enough to avoid the softbaits. Last summer was similar, I got a lot of small snapper and only around 10% of what I caught were of a decent size that I could justify keeping. 

It might be time to start livebaiting. 
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Fished Auckland inner harbour on Sat with a mate. The first hour, I sat there watching him catch snaps & piper for fresh baits, anchored only 10m away in 2.2m along a tide line
That nor easter was blowing 10kt plus from Birkenhead direction to us off Meola dog park, the odd white cap & breaking
Next thing, we see another kayaker further out, change course & head for us. I paddled away to another spot to try & catch fish
I watched this fala go almost on top of my mate, pulled his phone out to mark our spot, then anchor down current in my mates salmon berley trail.... dragged his anchor then anchored up current from my mate
I paddled back to where my mate was, waved a hello to the fala, no wave back in return
Was quite slow on the incoming, apart from a couple frisbees released (eagle rays) & undersize... then that fala left the scene
Change of tide to outgoing, bigger current.... my mate kept enough then buggared off & I finally got fish in the bin
4 snaps to 38 for me & mate got couple snaps to 48cm
Heaps of smalls to 31-32 going back... .was unusual at times, fish would pull line off the reel, head shake then fall off altogether on the way up, happened a few times to both of us
Best baits incoming was fresh macks, piper & frozen mullet, outgoing was definitely squid
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