Bread or dough. We used to catch them by the sackload when I was a kid at what is now the ferry terminal area downtown Auck.

Most wharfs will hold them.

Saw heaps of them, tails and dorsals out of the water, grazing weed from rockpools on the top of a ledge that was awash at Omaha last weekend.

Craig Worthington did an article in NZFN a while ago recommending frozen mixed vegetables as bait. Apparently the spotties and other ooglies leave these baits alone, but the parore love them.

I used to catch plenty of them in the estuary at Mangawhai when I was a teen (many years back now ). Low tide they used to run in the channel and would readily take pipi's I collected there - good fight in shallow water on light gear

Ahab wrote: Craig Worthington did an article in NZFN a while ago recommending frozen mixed vegetables as bait. Apparently the spotties and other ooglies leave these baits alone, but the parore love them.  The one time I've targetted them with bait I used mussels from the supermarket, and they lost their sht over it. This was at Matiatia wharf at Waiheke, but as Tagit remembers, there are no shortage of them in the main Auckland ferry terminal area.    If you want to eat them, fillet them quickly, or gut them carefully, making sure you don't pierce the stomach, as the iodine in the gut can taint the flesh. The fillets are delicious if treated right.    Funny name, "black snapper", as they're not (a) black, or (b) snapper. I've heard them called "luderick", "blackfish" and "old maid", as well as "shtfish".

yep, they are called Luderick or Blackfish over here, pipi's and cabbage or ribbon weed are the gun baits. they take lures more often than you would expect too, with vibes being what seems to take them the most

Haven't been for a eyar or so - but used to catch them off the little walking bridge on the edge of the big pond at chelsea sugar factory. go into the pond a little and grab some of the fine light green weed off the ground there in the shallow - hard to miss its everywhere. Although certain tyimes of the year had more than others. Wrap it around a small trout hook a few times and put it out under a thin pencil float with a couple of split shots. There is a little angled wall that runs from the pond as an overlfow down to thw sea. First started fishing for them there as one day i was walking around there and noticed them feeding on bits of the wall. would have been 5 or 6 casually feeding - a coupld a good 2-3 pounds!

[yep, they are called Luderick or Blackfish over here, pipi's and cabbage or ribbon weed are the gun baits. they take lures more often than you would expect too, with vibes being what seems to take them the most[/QUOTE]

makka wrote: Ahab wrote: [yep, they are called Luderick or Blackfish over here, pipi's and cabbage or ribbon weed are the gun baits. they take lures more often than you would expect too, with vibes being what seems to take them the most    Interesting that they take blades, Makka. A mate got a monstrous one on a softie the other day, we thought it was  a fluke. Blades are on the point of taking off over here, still a bit new and hard to find in the sports shops.

In certain areas around there they can actually be a pain when fishing for bream, they certainly go well on light gear though! [/QUOTE]

Hi all Does anyone know were to fish for Parore at Milford marnia.