Te Atatu Peninsula spot?

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    Posted: 10 Nov 2008 at 9:48am
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Hi all, I've recently moved house right down the end of te atatu road, with a view of the water, and look out my window wondering if there is a fishable spot anywhere nearby! There seems to be a channel that runs through I was thinking maybe over by westharbour marina? Land based, as I dont have a boat, any recomendations would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!!
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Hey mate I grew up in Te Atatu at the end where your house is.  As a kid I caught heaps of sprats and piper at the sailing club.  You can also net or spear flounder and grey mullet around the mangroves.  Why not try catching a flounder on a baited hook?

We also used to take little boats and fish the channel edges and the flats for snapper and kahawai in the later summer months.  I have caught trevs almost right up to the motorway bridge and for a long time we targeted parore on mussel baits in that same area.  There are tons of them up there and they fight reasonably hard.  We would stand on the mud / greywacke mid tide and use really light ledger rigs on spinning gear.  Not the normal way people use to target them but was a deadly technique.

I have even seen kingfish chasing grey mullet on a cold winters morning too. 

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Thanks Jonny! I right at the end so the sailing club is only about 40 metres from home! Would you hit the mudflats further up from the sailing club to target the trevs/parore? I have definately looked out a couple of calm days and seen baitfish leaping in the channel, maybe Kahawai on the chase? Or one of those kingis you have spotted!

Just flicking a ledger rig onto the flats at high tide be an okay way to have a go at the flounder you think?
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Fish as light as possible for flounder.  The only flounder I have caught on a hook was foul hooked on a spinner.  There has been some discussion on the forum about caughting them on hook so I would suggest searching through. 
We also used to anchor close to the marina and geta few fish at the right timeof year.
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Great! Thanks for ya help, good to know theres a chance off hooking something so close to home.
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 buy yourself a kayak and get out thereWink. My son has caught snapper kahawai out there on his kayak normally after xmas. You also see the flounder boats come in and set there nets on the incoming tides.
The wife said if i go fishing one more time she will leave me, god i'm going to miss her
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A kayak would be a good option.  Even just to paddle around observing.
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Hi Jonny,
 
Had a couple of fishes (boat) out there in late last summer. Was surprised by the heap of bait fish there, and also plenty of pan size snapper. We would wait for the evening high tides and fish from dusk till about 11pm on the edge of the channels in 3-4 metres of water. There is definitely fish there. A kayak or dinghy is a good suggestion.
 
They use corn kernels for flounder dont they - samll hooks.
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Thats the way to do it Nathan.  Alot of people fish the holes off Kauri Pt in the heavy current, but I always liked fishing the flats and edges.  They snapper certainly fight hard in shallow water, but you can fish very light tackle on the mud.
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Yes a Kayak is the way to go there. Have gone out quite a few times and there are plenty of ky and pannies. I have found that if top of the tide coincides with dusk it is best and for some strange reason the flater the water the better. When its still and shallow a little burley attracts everything.You only need to paddle out about 500 meters. Have also cast sp's in towards the mangroves and been pleasantly surprised. I even caught my limit there one night. I go straight out from the ramp at the end of  I think its Beach Rd or Wharf Rd.
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Hi Na, there are ramps at the end of both the roads, the one at the end of wharf road is by the sailing club, do you head out there? And just burley up strait onto the mudflats? You dont need to cast into the deeper channel water or anything? Thanks for the advice!
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Actually the one by the sailing club is more down the end of Te atatu road, just round the corner, so maybe sounds like you are heading out off beach rd.
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is there access to the flats on the northern side - possible cast to the channel/edge on an incoming?
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The northern end of Te Atatu has a mangrove forest that reaches out quite far.  The council have built a track / board walk that goes around the top but doesn’t come close to the channel.  On a side note we used to find heaps of Kauri gum at the end of beach road because they used to bring them down Henderson Creek.  You can also see an old mansion on that walk.  A friend of mine found an unexploded bomb once in the same area as there used to be a target range for the airforce just beyond the mangroves.

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Hi..eny luck im in teatatu myself keen to get owt for a fish..
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I wouldnt fish in the creek that runs from the marina down towards the concourse anytime soon.
Did you see the news last week?
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