A couple of newbie questions for you guys that fish off Papamoa.
I've started having a crack with soft baits from my paddleboard and had a little bit of success, enough to get excited about possibilities. I'm going maybe up to 750m offshore, (hard to tell)
Have also just seen the various cheapie portable fish finders available and wondering whether they could be of much use, anyone use any of these gadgets? Lucky, Venterior, deeper start etc?
For those of you with proper fishfinders how valuable are they when doing this kind of fishing off Paps? do you generally search out a depth or do you find you get a fish alarm when paddling and then fish that area?
Or when drifting if you see sign etc do you focus on that area?
One of the challenges of fishing from the paddleboard is that you drift pretty fast, so I'm trying to figure whether these would be any use or not and whether I should save my limited $$$? Hoping a few of you can chime in with some advice.
Keen to take some basic advise and will check in with a few reports. (hoping the paddleboard is close enough to a yak to be welcome here)