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!!!!!!!!! Epic day for me, got my personal best snapper by a long shot! Fished in Kenepuru opposite snapper point weather was pretty average, nice sun but windy as and constantly changing direction!! Had couple of runs but no hook ups. decided to try ledger rig rather than straylining. Put a whole piper (dead) on hooked through the nose, 3oz sinker and only in roughly 8m of water. This hungry daddy went for it :) weighing in at 19lb












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Awesome fish there dobo-good on ya.the wind can be a pain in the arse inthere swirling round on the anchor alright.
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Nice Snapper.

Spent around 5 hours fishing in the QC Sound, mainly used SP. A combination of drift fishing and trolling, basically only caught 3 small kahawai. Water temp is still around 13 so probably still a bit cold. 

What is the water temperature like in the Kenepuru at the moment? 

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Cheers guys,

When I caught that snapper it was around 15 degrees,  week before that was 14 degrees..not sure what it will be around this weekend as unfortunately i'm not going out.
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Nice conditions, nice snapper! Look at that things nose LOL
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heres a couple of sounds snapper caught today,25 lb and 21lb,,,caught in 10 mtrs of water 8.00 am this morning ,,was fishing in mates boat and his camera not to flash on pic quality,,both fish nailed pilchards whole ,,both were gut hooked so couldnt release the fish but did release one of around 15lb
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Awesome fish Blackboat nice one !! Nice to see theres a few biggies around!
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Nice fish, heading to the sounds for a evening surfcasting either Monday or Tuesday night. Hopefully something would be in the shallows around Havelock.

Should probably make the effort to get down to the Kenepuru but not on a work night.  

edit: Was tying rigs, and thought i was out of Swivels, so was busy searching for a pack of Mustard swivels I purchased a few months back... So I looked in my 60L tackle storage container (it is only half full) and found 5 packs of the swivels I like in it  Embarrassed. Although in my panic I did order another 5 packs Big%20smile . Just proves that you can not have to much tackle Clap. 


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Got out for some fishing out of Okiwi in the weekend. Plenty of snapper but nothing like the ones caught by Blackboat. Also got some cod tarakihi and a gurnard and a single john dory. (see photo) Got some scallops which are in awesome condition. My bro and his mate went for a dive and got four crays. One was five pounds.
 
 
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Looks like the fishing is warming up everywhere :) At this time of year it is hard to decide where to fish. 

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Just wondering, are you guys based in Blenheim, Nelson or somewhere in between.
I live slightly east of Renwick. So about a equal distance away from both sounds and the East Coast. 

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im in motueka there militaris so only venture to pelorus or kenepuru never been in quen charlotte sound to far for travell
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I'm in Blenheim.
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Spent three hours or so having  a shore fish in Kaiuma Bay, was very calm. Caught a moderate size KY but nothing else. 
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Live in Blenheim too, How old is everyone? I'm 25
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Fished the Mahau sound for a few hours this morning (8-12pm), the gusts made it hard to fish from the kayak. No sign of Snapper but a few big schools of baitfish. 

Found a 50ft deep hole, surronded by 20ft deep water. Do you guys think it would be worth fishing, quite a few bait schools on the fish finder. 

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fished kenepuru friday night and sat ,,,when going through the kenepuru entrance sounder showed large signs of snapper but nothing scored ,birds working around mussell farm on left of entrance but nothing scored,,burlyed up 2 boats of us nothing but sea lice,sat up at 5am went right to end basically of heads deployed 20kg of burly around a mussell farm and not a sign of any snapper ,the other boat i was with did catch a shark of around 60-70kg,,speaking to others when washing boat and sounds like no one scored fishing very bleak
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Does anyone know if its possible to get land acess to the western point of Moetapu Bay?

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In the past I've found that if you get sea lice attacking your bait you won't catch any snapper.
 
Dived Port Underwood on Saturday. Got plenty of crays and one of the boys speared a few butterfish. Almost all the crays are out of berry now.
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