Those 160 long hardies are great for shore jigging. Gromph, you cast them. Checkout shore jigging on youtube

Kevin.S wrote: Enjoyed reading this thread.  What sort of rods & reels are you guys using for this type of fishing?

Early days for me, and still coming to grips with the whole thing but I'm using a couple of rods and reels at the moment....

Rods
1/ Shimano Backbone Elite, 8ft, 6 - 8kg

2/ Berkley Dropshot, 7ft, 3 - 6kg

Reels (both fixed spool)
1/ Okuma Epix EB30

2/ Daiwa Legalis 2500

Hey guys went out yesterday and tired my new setup okuma xfactor 6-8kg and penn 4500ssv spooled with 20lb powerpro and 20lb fluro leader.tried a small rapala popper for quite sometime with no luck also some Zmans and some gulp on 1/4 ounce jig head i had a good knock on a really brown coloured gulp jigging grub missed the hookup part to not expecting it nd boredom...changed over to a Sebile flat shad and omfg they went nut 4 fish on 4 casts was shocked but those trebles are dangerous and blood hard to get out may change to a couple small livebait hooks.im definitely loving the sebiles so seriously contemmplating on changing over to hardbodys altogethor for local fishing

Snapper and kahawai berley definitely helped

Brown Dog wrote: Fished the Manukau again yesterday, heaps of workups around low tide, lost 3 fish and 3 lures, Sebile Flat Shad, Sebile Stick Shad,and a Rapala Max Rap...... Ouch$$$$

Perhaps up your leader im using 20lb fluro may go to 30lb shortly my favourite lure is the sebile at the moment and top catch are doing them for 30 percent of so pretty good saving

Yeah we landed around 14-15 kahawai I got 4 on 4 casts with the sebile I set the hooks pretty hard and run a pretty heavy drag. We had some kingys around to chasing kawai but they were nto remotely interested in the shads. The Kahawai were not interested in poppers either have a very small x rap and that didnt interest them either the brown sebile shad was the go but the me mate got one on a $4 warehouse slug but the sebiles were the go.

I've just bought some of these. http://www.torpedo7.co.nz/shop/fishing/tackle-bags/tackle-bags-belts/old-harbour-outfitters
I couldn't resist at that price. They arrived today and were much more robust that I expected for the price. Haven't tried them out yet, but apart from looking a bit of a prat they seem like they will be useful. The round pod is open at the bottom so I'm thinking it will be good to hold the rod if you can't put it down while dealing with a fish.

The clear plastic tubes in the main pack are 40mm diameter and 230mm long.  These easily fit all my smaller lures in, and at a push you could squeeze a Halco Rooster in one -but I wasn't thinking about poppers and stick baits.

what day paul? 

did u have a go up the river bro? any luck??