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    Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 11:31am
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Hey Guys,

Headed across to the East Coast for the w/e to fish the Surtees owners comp. Have not fished out of Whakatane before so am going in a little blind. Any advice of where is fishing well, what sort of depths the fish are in and any other advice or local knowledge that you'd like to offer would be much appreciated! Happy to go near or wide and the forecast is looking pretty sharp so just about anywhere is an option... Would be happy to shout a few beers even!

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PM Biggear Ben, get his number and get him onside... then you're home and hosed.
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We will be over there for the comp keep eye out for us Ben, hey Beagle hope to catch up with stu tomorrow sometime and raid his gps.
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Originally posted by Tzer Tzer wrote:

We will be over there for the comp keep eye out for us Ben, hey Beagle hope to catch up with stu tomorrow sometime and raid his gps.

Be careful mate, I'd rather be caught making a pass at his Mrs than raiding his GPS!
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Hi Surtees
Had not read your post check these against Biggear,s

Whakatane Eastern BOP, VHF Ch 80

 

Matata    37-49.71S   176-44.28E  Medium foul bottom fish /strayline

The paddock  37-52.47S   176-48.85E  Sand with scattered papa rock

Tasman reef  37-50.650S 176-50.650E  Rough foul with Exposed rocks at L/ tide

The Middle   37-49.930S   176-54.410E  Lge area East of Raus Med foul

Boulder Bank  37-51.694S  176-57.704E  SW corner of Whale

Bubbles  37-51.958S  176-58.466E Popular Tarakihi & Snapper spot.

Goldfish Bowl 37-50.227S  176-53.802E  hole ½ m East of Lizard Isl watch for Rks

Waiotahi Rock 37-57.708S  177-11.826E anchor 50m away from rock

Ten Mile Reef  37-47.800S  177-03.800E  10miles from Whakatane

Roys Reef  37-38.031S   177-00.405E 18 miles NNW of Kohi point all species can be found here Depth 125m- 150m. Snapper, Tarakihi, Tuna and Marlin.

Lance,s  King fish spot  37-52.927S  177-05.475E use flasher rigs and small baits

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There should be snapper anywhere along the coast, 20 metres is a good place to start looking, anchor up and burley to bring them to you or drift with soft baits.  The Rurimas are a huge patch of foul, just to the east of there in around 35 metres can produce good tarakihi, you need to find them on the sounder and anchor on top of them.  Head out wide to the trench and you can find big tarakihi and the odd Hapuka and nice kingy.
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Fishing the Surtees this weekend, might see you guys out there, weather looks good.
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Yeah it sure does Nath,might be down there too but not in the comp.
Did I mentioned we bagged out on fat snapper on the sunday after you came out with us? LOL
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The motor all good? Give us a call on the VHF might be out near you one of the days.

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Cheers Muzz and Murph! That will give us something to start with.

See you for a beer over the w/e.
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We fished off the Tarawera today and had no problem filling our bin with snaps.  No monsters but there were plenty of nice eaters in the 35cm+ size. 
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Hi  Murph  fished on the Friday before Surtees comp near Thornton river entrance in 17m of water caught Snaps 30-40cm lots of Kawahai and 9.5kg Kingi 90cm long.



Saturday morning weather forecast 5 knots variable got to the ramp at 6.15 am.
headed to the Raus in search of some BIG Snaps unfortunately could catch any thing over 45cm never mind always Sunday, weighed a couple of Snaps and a couple of Kawahai as there is an average weight prize for Snapper.
Sunday another awesome day to be on the water forecast 5knots Variable in the morning 10knots in afternoon.  Bar flat as Karapiro Lake This time we went in the other direction down to Ohope in 37m of water, close to a spot I posted on here, first drop my father hooked a Kingi before I had even put the anchor down.  We ended up catching 5 x Kingies on that spot 4 released around 70-75cm kept one at 84cm Snapper were a bit slow in between bites and not much bigger than Saturdays efforts, more Kawahai but no big ones.Cry



You can see how rough it was.  Had a great time always keen to fish down Whakatane as you never know what you might catch.

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Good one!

We went out on Sunday too.  Trolled lures out to the trench and then had a fish out there.  Water temp was still as high as 20.5 and we came across a couple of huge work ups so there is every chance that there could still be some game fish about.

At the trench we scored a bunch of nice fat Tarakihi and I jigged up a couple of kingies, one was 14 KG and the other was 16.5 KG.

I'm glad you had a good time in Whakatane, give me a call if you are down these ways again.

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Anyone know the GPS marks for a spot called "the vents" or similar??
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Think I still have a mark for the vents on my GPS, will update in the morning

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The mark I have is 37.41.296 S   177.07.273 E  Approx depth 185-190m
The "Vents" is a pretty big area but those numbers will get you out there, plenty of Terakihi caught at that spot last time out

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Sweet as and thnx for your efforts Wayne..Beer
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