Schecter wrote: It was a frosty and cold morning at 8am, but after a few paddle strokes the blood got circulating again. I anchored and fished along some very small channels beside the beach, but no takers. I then paddled and anchored to the main channel. My ledger rig with a small strips of mullet were appetising to the big Kahawai. My Strayline with 1/2 pilchard and 1/4 oz sinker had some very good runs, but I couldn’t set the hook. 11am, and an hour after high tide, the current was moving again. So I packed up and paddled back to the beach. In the end I took home 2 fat Kahawai. I love fishing the Manukau. |
Schecter wrote: Hi Smudge. I just saw your message, I couldn’t go in the end. I had to stay home and support my missus. My mother in law passed away on Sunday. I hope to make it next year. Great to see you met Odai and Zaid. They’re good blokes 👍 |
smudge wrote: We were fishing in the harbour today targeting gurnard in the Counties Sport Fishing Club's Ice Breaker tournament. We knew Snapper Geoff had some good fish so we only tried for gurnard today. We fished from 10am until just after 2pm and only caught 8 but there were a few bigger ones in there. My father in law was beaten into 3rd place, his fish was 1.12kg. 3rd place was caught off the coast and it was 1.17kg, mine took out 2nd at 1.19kg and another coast fish won the category at 1.29kg. All of those fish would have been well in the money for the Grunter Hunter but that's nothing new for us. Despite running it that is my bogey event . Our fish were caught off Pollok, on dropper rigs & straylines. All baits worked for us. We only caught gurnard and we left our burley at home so we could have done much better I'm sure |
Schecter wrote: Hi Smudge. I just saw your message, I couldn’t go in the end. I had to stay home and support my missus. My mother in law passed away on Sunday. I hope to make it next year. Great to see you met Odai and Zaid. They’re good blokes 👍 |
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