MandM wrote: Hi guys Sorry to hijack this thread . Wondering what the road access is like to whangaroa ramp / harbour. Heard some trees over hang the road a bit? Got a 9 Mtr trailer boat that's about 3.9 Mtrs high on trailer just wondering if il fit down the road. Hopefully will head up late February for a holiday and some fishing , coming from New Plymouth. Wondering best place to launch. Cheers Mark. |
TM. wrote: Dragging my boat up to whangaroa tomorrow to try and tap in to the hot run of form happening up there at the moment....any advise on where to head fellas, I heard the garden patch area was producing yesterday? ?? |
Captn Phil wrote: Quite a few fish caught over the past couple of days but they are still fairly spread out. Good water and feed has moved well in over that past week and pushed both blues and stripeys in close. There are a lot of very small marlin at the moment but the odd big one amongst them. 4 seiners 2 planes and a helicopter working close in to Whangaroa at the moment scooping hundreds of tons of skippies (and anything else that gets in the way). We've all got to make a dollar but its pretty sad to see the way that Sanfords work over an area an area like that and one can only wonder at the true catch profit vs the recreational and charter fishing value if they left it alone for a while. I just we don't end up with a desert like some other areas that have been commercially fished to death. |
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