Nice feed there mate

We got a good feed out on the Kaipara today.

Went out yesterday (Dec 27) from Hobson bay, first trip since August. Fished around Rakino, no interest in slow pitch jigs or squid softbait. Fell back to bait fishing with squid. Landed a couple of snapper 35 and 40 cm. Then headed off to D'Urville rock off Waiheke. Pretty sure the DoC boat? made to intercept me as I transited the Noises HPA. I was texting the missus so I was zig-zagging all over the show for a bit, so fair enough. Tried jigging around D'rville - no luck.

Not really a serious day out, had too blow the 'spiders' out of the boat, probably need to sort the battery out too. Fairly quiet out there in terms of other boats for this time of year.

Haven’t been out a lot this year so haven’t posted a lot. Anyway me and my mate hit the water today around 9.30 out from Stanmore bay. Bit of a light southerly blowing so I thought ee would try the sand halfway across to Motuora. Picked up a 350mm amongst the 30 under sized snapper. Kept heading over to Motuora and fished the bottom end for another 350mm and another 30 under sized fish, still a lot of small fish around.

Wind dropped so we headed over to Tiri, picked up a good feed last time I was over there about 6 weeks ago. Nothing around wooded island so we thought we would run some drifts past shag rock, but not a lot going there as well.

So back over to the sand at the 25 metre mark. Got there at low tide so got setup ready for the current to come on, which it did and picked up 3 nice pannies dragging soft baits. As the current picked up a school of KYs showed up which was a shipload of fun and ended up taking 6 good size KYs home along with the 5 snapper.

Not a bad day in the end.

22/3

Kandrew wrote: The Tamure Kid wrote: Thanks for posting, Kerry. A good honest report. I was lucky enough to be invited out on a mate's boat out of Gulf Harbour a couple of weeks ago. Our trip almost mirrored yours - we really struggled to get decent fish on softbaits around the western edge of Tiri channel, the northern side of Tiri, the deeper zone in a direct line with Kawau, and over by Motuora. We hooked a lot of smaller models, but couldn't buy a good one. Neither of us know the area very well (he's just moved to Red Beach), so we struggled. If the fish were there, we'd have caught them. The country we fished looked incredibly fishy, but we only just got a feed. Been a hard year on the soft baits, although I did catch a 12lb snapper off wooded island just before Christmas on a 5in bait Junkie. I’ve done a lot better on the micro jigs this all be it small snapper, my thoughts are the smaller fish haven’t yet developed the predator instinct yet and just grab a micro jig because they are hungry and like the shiny flash.

Nephew been doing well around the orere pt area,SBs havent been working for him until he switched to the crab SB

Almost 11 months to the day was last time we went fishing. Hmm Labour weekend,feeling ok shgould be able to launch if I take my time,wanted test out new anchor winch,works well. Thursday pull boat out connect water and start,hmm no water,ok youtube,yes i can do that so changed water pump and peeing better than I. Went to kawakawa bay ay 5.30am and join the que. Get out past ponui farm and sat from 7.00 to 10.30 and got our 14 in the 36 to 45 range all roed up. Back at ramp and wait at end of que. Fuel prices whats that?? 182 trailers at ramp today. Wont be a weekly event but more likely 3 weekly now.