fish-feeder wrote: Any updates smudge? |
smudge wrote:
The harbour is chocka with red weed so best to fish the low current times of the tide. We found fishing tough for the 3 days getting around 10 snapper each day for the three of us and a handful of kahawai, gurnard and trevally. Nothing big but good fun as the fishing comp usually are. Once this big moon starts to wane I would expect the fish to bite hard and the smaller tides may make the weed less problematic. |
Tariksthetix wrote: After two failed fishing trips last week on the Hauraki gulf, we decided to head off to the Manukau on Sunday. Started off very slow with an outgoing tide, small snappers and tons of weed so we moved out to the 20m mark in the middle of the harbour and once it came close to the change of tide (around 12 pm) the bite started with no weed. First fish was a nice 35cm Gurnard, followed by two very large Kahawai, a trevally and many good sized snapper. Something busted my dads line off, was very heavy and strong and pulled his line hard. Since there's no foul we just thought it was a shark. Me hoping it was a kingy, I put on a whole jack mack and 10 minutes later I hooked up to a 35kg + school shark. Great fight and good fun on a really bad tiny rod. My rig had 100lb line tho with good knots so they held nicely. |
MacSkipper wrote: fishing outer harbour fishing was a bit slow and a lot windier than forecast - had to move several times - first spot got a lot of flow and heaps of red weed - ended up with a feed for both of us - larger trevally was 44cm. |
smudge wrote: Nice work guys. Windy as today so didn't go out |
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