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    Posted: 28 Aug 2008 at 12:42pm
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Anyone know how this harbour goes for flatties?  Looks to be too shelly down Rangiputa way, but what about amongst the eel grass & mangroves etc?

How's that area fishing generally at the moment? Coastal-wise out to the point on the western end of Puheke beach

( Planning my Fathers Day pressie Wink )


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dump the idea of destroying our grass bed nurseries Angry and we might tell you
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Okaaay....  Confused

Aside from the eel-grass fanatic, anyone else got any info on FLOUNDER in this water?


(Incidentally Phil, I don't keep any fish under 30cm, incl flatties. Look forward to your next informative post in two years time Wink )

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no problem with taking flounder .. a spear and light work well in certain parts of the harbour ..and way more fun ... its the destruction of the nurseries with the nets that's the problem
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H.L.D.... I can tell you all about the Northern side of the harbour being my ole stomping ground (Read East Beach, Kaimaumau - Awanui area)... masses of Mangroves and masses of Flounder, Mullet and stingrays..... Fishes real good through out the year.... with the ole canoes used to set the nets in front of the mangroves at high, go for a paddle and come back and collect the dozens of flounder/mullet which were caught.... It's a premo spot... however you need to take some care with some of the locals, they're a mad bunch ... although it's not as bad as it used to be as some have moved down to Auckland... (for goodness knows what reason it seems!) ...
 
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Phil,
Didn't say I was going to use a net...  Even if I owned one. But I agree with you.
I prefer to stare my prey down before nailing them to the seabed.

Now the toys are back in the cot....
(Bugger. Thought I had my first flame-war there)

Thanks for that Tomsta.

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No worries HLD ... if all you want to do is use a spear and a light at night..... you can't go wrong with that either, generally you will always nail a few good ones... anywhere in front of the mangroves...  
 
Never had a problem with netting there to be honest.... under size flounder are always easy to release and found netting the only really effective method of picking up 30-40 mullet for the smoker....
 
A crazy thing with netting is if you don't keep a reasonable eye on it and you have caught a few mullet in it.... you will get back and only find it's skin left in the net...... stingrays can have the habit of hanging out on the outside of the net, feel when the mullet is caught and come over and suck the mullet through the net only leaving it's Skin behind! .... first time I saw this I though it was invasion of the body snatchers.... but soon learned that the harbour is litterally infested with stingrays..... which brings me back to the canoe chases with a spear in hand with a rope atteched to the front of the canoe.... stingray sleigh rides.... awesome buzz Thumbs%20Up
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then yup ... most of the shallow areas .. grass included on the south side of rangiputa past the last becon next to the beach are pretty good areas .. tokerau is probably better though ( needs fairly flat seas and a westerly there ) .. as for the fishing there are some resonable ( i hooked and lost a 15 lbr ( mates estimate and he is pretty accurate ) monday ) fish in the harbour but most productive areas are still outside in karikari bay ( somewhere Smile )
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I have been known to puddle around the southern end of the harbour, sort of at the end of KUMI ROAD and towards Awanui River entrance. Usually some good flats around, and the mate dropped off a few nice mullet to us yesterday from same area. Fishing has been pretty slow over on the Kaimaumau side of late but have had some good catches north of East Beach. With these big tides was planning a trip to Puheke to indulge in some fat tuatuas.
 
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Caught a few ok fish off the wharf down the end of the Unahi Road as a boy.

 

Water can be pretty muddy at times but that is when the snapper are there. Never tried floundering there

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Yip... Unnahi wharf was always a favourite place to go in the summer evenings (top end of the harbour)... the place literraly crawls with flounder, mullet and kawhai at times... Thumbs%20Up
 
Bro (Coxy da Miller at Ngataki) was given 5kgs (hyperbole) of shucked scallops last weekend, in return for a couple of macrocarpa slabs..... got to love the barter system the locals have up there... Thumbs%20Up (and here I am in Jaffa land..... Confused)
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The upper harbour holds loads of flounder and mullet.
An alternative to netting in the daytime is snorkling in the mangroves on a high tide. That's where the flounder are feeding and are easily speared. Mullet also can be speared with a gun or sling.
 
 
 "Bro (Coxy da Miller at Ngataki) was given 5kgs of shucked scallops last weekend, in return for a couple of macrocarpa slabs..... got to love the barter system the locals have up there... Thumbs%20Up" 
Tut tut Tomsta - serious rules infractions there !!!!!!!!!!!
If you're not on the edge you're taking up too much room.


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Apparently the scallops were washed up beyond high tide mark after a recent storm.
 
STILL NOT OK TO BARTER THEM Tomsta
If you're not on the edge you're taking up too much room.


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Damn Fine Battered though mate.... Thumbs%20Up
 
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wouldn't be many that make it to the high tide mark ... somebody must have missed them 
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