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Hi mate,

thanks BeachedAsBro.

Wednesday 2009-12-16   
Moonrise  5:08 AM NZDT, Moonset  8:28 PM NZDT
crack of dawn 5-30pm

this was interesting as the 17th is a New Moon

did anyone fish the afternoon Bite????
come on folk i need your report regardless of how it went dead nothing or all good....

report from Boulder.
Jigging forum...
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Moved a few times to fresher sign Lethal but we could have done it easy on one drift.
Your bite time prediction for the day was pretty spot on 9.30 ish and lasted a good couple of hours

a little incite into jigging, this is one form of fishing that can have a different effect on a fish...
the reason is your acting on the fish's natural instincts...
in the world they live in, acting wounded your dead meat...
hence a jig comes into this category so do the odd Softies which imitate a wounded fish plus of coarse a livebait with a hook in it....
so when the going gets tough sometimes changing your approach will help....
thinking outside the square can prevent that odd Zilch trip when nothing is in your favor....



   

Went out of Mahurangi lastnight with Fisher in the baby stabi. Too blowy to go far out so fished the saddle. Nothing really on the bite until about 8pm till about 9:30. Just smaller fish but your bite time looked to be pretty accurate. The new moon was well up and visible and the tide running slower as they came on the bite.
Just seen this thread and will try to update to it when I can. I reckon this is a sensational idea mate.
Nice one!

lethal, your bites are pretty good, still think the tides are having an influence

what ledge were you on BeachedAsBro?
did you land on the souwest corner or the other end which faces the Pinnacles?
one end or the other can be mean depending on the tide, most times you want the tide running onto the ledge, the end facing Channel is better on a out going and the end facing the Pinnacles is best on a incoming...
now your going to ask me how would i know? i used to spear the buggers so new where to find them on any given tide.... i had a hell job landing any on the out going as the reefs are right around that corner even when fishing in a boat... LOL...
i suspect they have had a bit of a hiding lately as well...
my thinking is find yourself a nice quite bay a little further along the coast and burley up some squid when the going gets tough like that and take em out there, fresh dead or alive they are like lollie pops to a King.... or even netting piper in the corner of Fletchers right hand side after youve thrown some bread out, wait 1/2 an hour and you should get them we did early or late evening...
also found the week before the full moon is better or leading up to or even the day before its full....

Good post Eric!

Friday 2009-12-18   
Moonrise  6:58 AM NZDT, Moonset  9:58 PM NZDT
crack of dawn 7-00pm

Fished 24mtr drift off challenger area (Kauwau). Bite time for us was 9-10.30am on softies (which comes under the dying fish category rather that feeding time), a boat was fishing the area when we arrived on bait and they left while we were catching them (and did not appear to be geting them)? My son got 2 over 60cm and most were 40-55cm (rod holder was not working an sb's had to be moved constantly off the bottom to get hit). Moon had been up for 2 hours.

Bjorn wrote: I always keep a big treble hook in my tackle box and if the livies dont wanna take a bait they leave me no option

Tuesday 2009-12-22   
Moonrise 10:51 AM NZDT, Moonset 11:56 PM NZDT
8-00am

He had a shot at 13.20  while on the 200M contour east of cape Brett. He hooked up 20 minutes later and tagged and released an 80kg stripey after a further 20 minutes.

well the first Marlin dosent work-in with the bite times...
so maybe back to the drawing board with them....
this is a hour and a 1/2 to 2hrs outside that frame....
the only good news is the moon was not up....