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Interestingly, the Ocean Angler boys went live on Facebook yesterday out there -  for nearly an hour. They got one fish on camera, from recollection. Pretty rough, too. Much worse than the forecast (sounds familiar!).

There were quite a few birds working anchovies and few bust ups.

Apparently they got some nice fish before and after the live feed, but when Mark Kitteridge gets one fish on softbaits in an hour, it's pretty tough...
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Definitely tough today, late start didn’t help but found fish around the park point area, kept 3. Nice to see a 12 ft something leap clear out of the water. As soon as sun came out bites went dead
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Nice to hear they are around Park Point Hammerhead, as launching Kennedy Point Satdee..!
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Launched okahu yesterday evening and sprinted out to Rakino. A brewing storm over waiheke pushed us back around the northern side of Rangitoto and around by the Rangi lighthouse.
Drifting in close flicking softies to the shallows produced the goods.

A very light bite but once hooked proved decent inner gulf snapper.

Took 11 up to 50cm between 2 of us.

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well done mate pulled 6 nice ones off army bay saturday
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Well Hammerhead's intel was right on the money. Short motor to about 200m off Park Point. Slow drifts of about 500m before resetting. 11 in the bin and home before 10am. Too easy.





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Was out today from 1pm targeting kings goal was to get one or two in for marsik bros smoking .
Had a terrible time filling the live bait tank . Tried my go to spot for live bait plagues of baby snapper mid water . Got worse when kawahi started smashing the sabikis .
Moved around found some bait and had a rubbish afternoon catching giant kawahi lots of false excitement .
Had a strayline with kawahi bait got a few ok snaps was generally hard work . Daylight savings takes away the fun boat still to clean in the morning .Got caught out by how early it gets dark .
Will have to start not going to work on fishing days rather than half days .
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Trip Saturday morning - don't like holiday weekends but don't like not going fishing more.  Early start from Takapuna to get out before the hordes but still busy.  Sun coming up really nice, but crappy wind against tide and not really anything until change of tide.  Picked up but nothing special, got a feed or two, nice to be out and home in time to keep her indoors happy.

Best was W/NW of Waiheke, very modest work up, some reasonable snapper in patches on dragged or worked Shiner/New Penny paddle/curlytails.  No big kahawai where I was.

Nice.  Need to try again.  Need to change plan I think: usual spots not working.
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A agree with brmbrm - I don't like fishing holiday weekends but there was an itch that needed scratching!

Belated report from Saturday - launched from Browns Bay beach and headed past the lighthouse and into Rangi channel. Was nowhere near as prolific has is it has been this year and bites were few and far between. Headed back to north of the lighthouse and found some fish and kept a few nice pannies for a family dinner that night.

Tried my usual Gulp suspects - New Penny Squid Viscous and 4" in New Penny, Lime Tiger and Pumpkin Seed for some returns and got a couple nice ones on Zman Sexy Penny and Coconut Ice.

Surprisingly few boats out that way too - perhaps they all headed for the horizon? 
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For those wondering it’s def picked up in the usual just north of rangi spots. Last Saturday picked up plenty but interestingly dragging 45gm sliders did the damage.

Loads of big kahawai around too. They are working just off narrowneck.

I normally fish softies, so was excited to see these alien things catch fish. trying the same again tomorrow/Saturday.
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Was out Thursday off orewa ways off river mouth
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Very nicely done RF1Clap
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Out to Rangi Friday morning, Beautiful day, 3 knots and warm!

Tried under some terns in the channel, but lots of tiddlers taking my softbait and granbbing the micro jig so I moved around to NE of the lighthouse and tried there.

Then the softbaits started working - a 36 and a 38 took the curly tails - atomic sunrise  and golden boy. Glitter seems to do it for them. New Penny worked too. Used copper wire to hold the heads on, I hate the babies pulling them off the hook!

Then I spotted an anchovy workup - lots of KY and Terns. Went ahead of it and drifted/ Boom 40, 38, 38 and a string pulling 58 which is the best I have pulled from Rangi in a while. Took another 36 and was home for lunch.


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nice 1 mate. off out from army bay today ,hope its all on.
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some nice snaps lowbox. And great to hear the Kahawai are around again.
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Nice work Lowbox.  58cms is a good snap.
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Up at the crack of dawn Saturday we sorted the petrol mix, bait, supplies, and picked up a new tacklebox and rod from from a TradeMe purchase on the North Shore before putting the boat in at Takapuna Boat Ramp at around 8am.

It was not only our first time in the gulf but first time out in our boat and it was an absolute white-out with fog, so it was quite bizarre to begin with. We cautiously headed over towards the Rangitoto Lighthouse using the Navionics app, which ended up being a saviour.

We fished out from the lighthouse near "The Hole" and dragging a light sand anchor slowly drifted all the way across the front of the lighthouse and up near "Duder Spit". Using Squid and Bonito we managed to get about 5 good panny Snaps and threw back a heap of babies and just-unders.

We then did a move up to the NW corner of Rangi near "Spoil Grounds" and did a bit of softbaiting with some ZMan Motor Oil jerks and nabbed a 46cm snap, which put up a good fight. Also a wee Kahawai for the smoker.

Once the fog cleared it was a beautiful day on the water, with no wind and sunshine galore. An excellent maiden voyage for our new boat Loyal and many more to come!




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Slow day out today but a memorable one for us.

Started off poorly... We had to flush some crap out of the boat before driving out from home. Anyway we get to the ramp to launch and realised I left the bloody bung on the back of the boat. Only live 2 mins from the ramp but went back and scoured.. Couldn't find it. Thank god our neighbour had a spare from his catamaran and was able to lend for the day!

We headed out to Rakino/Motutapu to a few spots that usually produce the goods consistently for us but no interest. We decided to try a new area we hadn't fished before and trolled a bibbed Rapala in white/red along the headlands on the way.

Well glad we did because we picked up our first legal king! He went about 11kg and estimate 90-95cm but had to cut him to fit in the chilly!

Aside from that we nabbed 3 40cm snapper that went home for the neighbour!



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Nice work! Must troll a Rapala myself sometimes!

Went out to Rangi again yesterday - slow and small snaps so went up to Rakino which was better but then died. So went to Motuihe and cleaned up. Curly tail softbaits doing the damage, The microjig caught so many small fish I ended up putting it away. One hit on a Kabura but it was a 46cm model so that was OK.

Enjoying softbaiting with the Daiwa Certate - so smooooooth.
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Was off orewa beach just off the river mouth again today no action on sliders today but old school bait and long drifts today got the goods was a slow soft bufe though
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