Nice work Transformations

Good read T...and incentive to get our boat back out there..
https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/topic135355_post1807751.html#1807751
Hopefully be ready this weekend..havnt looked at the wind yet.

Interesting read gurnard, wish I could find time to head out but playing nursemaid to my wife who has broken her leg

Thanks gurnard, good to have eyes and ears on the water especially as things start to get quieter. Bugger about the bubblegum rod, so we learn. Great you ended up with a feed.

Wind and tides looking good for a fish early next week by the looks of it...tight lines👍

i love fishing the manukau been dreaming of it for month now .......especially now after  living in Pukekohe

Out this morning inner harbour - fabulous conditions better than forecast!  Cool wind and fish were not cooperating today - couple small Kahawai, stingray, shark and 1 gurnard to take home.  No Snapper in sight not even a small one!  Water temp at 15.4 degrees down on 16.8 2 weeks ago.

Welcome back Mars

We do seem to be catching more small fish out over the coast, but we've had some pretty epic fishing especially in spring. I think we went through about 5 years of absolutely great fishing and it has just been one of those years. The harbour has been quiet for gurnard for us for 3 years or so but I know plenty of others have had the complete opposite! We've been slow on snapper over summer in the harbour but from what I've heard it is certainly going well now.

TR for Thur 06/05

Another early start at fave spot and started off well with a nice mid 40's snap before sun came up



Went a bit quiet after that but was worth the effort being there early to appreciate the sunrise



Picked up a couple of KY and pulled the hooks on a couple of trevs and then it went real quiet. This is where being able to watch the water temp makes a difference. When I anchored the temp was around 17deg, by the time the tide was halfway out it was down to just over 14deg. Made the call to move across to the Purakau and got the last few hours of outgoing in about 4m on the edge of the channel, temp over here was back up to around 16.5deg.

Picked up another 5 snaps, nothing huge but all fat and fit. Got a few more nice KY and a good trev. Got bust off twice with one feeling like a real good snap and no clue on the other one but everything was feeling very fishy. And then there was the gurnard....





OMG! First gurnard of the season and this is what comes out. Other than missing half it's face it was perfectly healthy and fighting fit. Usually when I catch something that has had to overcome some kind of trauma, I put it back out of sympathy. Not this time, this one I put back because it was just damned disturbing! No way could I fillet and eat this fish without images of the walking dead coming to haunt me    .

All in all another fun and rewarding day on the muddy. What a great place to have on our doorstep

9/5/2021 7am - 12:00

Another great morning out on the Big Muddy despite the looming rain clouds. Fished the banks of the Snappakura on the incoming tide in the hope of some Gurnard but was sadly disappointed. Had to make do with endless horse sized KY, fighting fit Trevs and Snapper up to 50cm. Damn steering cable snapped on the way out so had to make tiller out of an oar which worked perfectly!
Interestingly water temp was in the 17 degrees the whole time