Smell bad???  Are you joking?  Smudge your satanic inspired shyte burnt a flippin hole clear thru the hull it did - and kept on going down through the ground - bent on returning to its home in Hell I expect.    

On the water 7am, couple kahawai before the main channel in 3m.
It was difficult to anchor the way I wanted to, a slight westerly off the bay with the incoming had me sitting wrong, I was expecting a slight easterly as forecast, so I would have sat right in that spot.
Looked around & saw snapper sign at the bottom of the drop off into the channel, no bites, explored around for no bites
Headed to the banks just before high tide.... bloody tide turned earlier than expected... the slight nor east with beginning of outgoing was perfect in 7.7m
1 under size throwback then 2 snaps for the bin, it basically stopped at 915am, got a decent feed anyway... paddled back in
Snaps of 43 & 55cm plus 2 kahawai for a handful of baits, squid was the best then salted pillies, good day out... water temp 15.9 deg

Well what can say went chasing Gurnard and still loking for them. 3 nice shallows spots 2/3m and yep kahawai ,come with 10 so smoking monday,and 1 undersize snapper,gutted one of the kahawai and what appeared to be chicken feet in it .nice and calm to wattle bay then came the wind and tide turned so a slow trip up the river,went past te toro ramp,10m hole and more bloody kahawai.Hope someone caught a gurnard or 2

Did a google search this is like what we found in the Kahawai chicken feet?? Someones burley??

An even slower day today 6 gurnard so far but I did release 5 because they were small. Highlight of the day was capturing a small 37cm gurnard with a tag in it. It was caught by a guy I know last month and has already grown 1cm. About normal for a gurnard that size. Interesting!

Anyone out on the Big Muddy tomorrow? The weather is looking perfect. The tides aren't ideal at 4.2m  but worth a crack. Think I'll concentrate on gurnard

I had planned to get the dinghy out today but kids wanted to go to the park instead.

Haven’t been out in the tub since summer. I’ve been so busy working lately I’ve forgotten what it’s like to have a fish.

Hoping to get out this week at some point and see what is about.

This time of year can be difficult mate. East coast is a whole different kettle of fish to the Manukau harbour land based though.

Should be plenty of Kahawai this time of year out west, as well as trevally and gurnard to be caught. East coast I have found revolved a lot around the time of day (fish the early mornings or evenings with low light) where as west is more about tides.

Plenty of decent land based spots to try out here. I’m no guru land based but do okay this time of year in terms of trevally and Kahawai around the Titirangi and Huia areas

Many times Ive headed out from Kaitarakihi bay, just before Huia.... theres always someone there landbased fishing

Also worth checking out Lawry point. Go to Mill bay, walk around the shoreline towards Armour bay. Most times I have seen guys fishing there way before dawn
Try floating baits under a cork or something else
Ive caught kahawai & trevs on small jigs, just cast & retrieve, most are caught mid water upwards

Also worth doing sight fishing for flounder during the day
This is something I will explore when I get the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mX3yQMQZQg
This fala does it on east side... no difference doing it west side
Theres a heap of guys been doing sight fishing for flounder the last few years & very successful with minimal effort
From what I have seen in videos, flounder are very aggressive & readily take lures when dropped in from of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTtZDmogG70