good score helping another fisho out when needed

what depth were you fishing
hanging out to fish my local again, has been stink for me last few trips

Tried various depths and baits    but just wasn't our day, mostly fished in 4 to 5m.

Scallop gills or whatever they are. Small squid is a good bait too. Any sort of burley should work, just get it down on the bottom.

Tinfisher wrote: Nabbed a couple of decent trevally straylining on the channel edges this weekend our buddy next to us also got a couple of good sized gurnards as well as a bunch of snapper in the low 30's, lots of undersized ones went back. Plenty of Kahawai around but lots of small ones.

i 'have to' go gurnard fishing this weekend. Sunday is looking horrific. But I can do that let me know if you're keen Tim

Finally got out on the Harbour this evening after a couple of months.

Launched at Waiau Pa, they’ve revamped the facilities and it’s looking awesome.

It was a bit choppy in the 12ft Frypan on the way out of the river but a bit of spray was welcomed as it was pretty humid. I left the fish finder at home today, hardly ever take it out anymore in the little tin as I only have two real spots close to the ramp that I fish anyway.

My ideal plan was to fish the depths in the Papakura channel this time but I launched just after the tide change due to sleeping a little longer after my night shift overnight.
Therefore I set out to one of my winter carrot spots to see if there were any early snapper here.

I anchored in about 3m and deployed two straylines.

I didn’t expect much and thought I was too shallow, I got ready to pull pick and move a bit deeper and one of my rods was nodding away in the rod holder. First fish was a modest pan sized snapper.

Second fish came not long after, putting up a decent fight. I got it to the boat and realised it was a nice sized gurnard! Sweet!

I continued casting out the back of the boat and picked up a few more pannies and a couple of Kahawai, one falling off the hook as I attempted to pull it in…that’ll teach me for being lazy and not using the net.

Enjoyed the afternoon as it glassed off a little making the ride in a lot smoother. The tin really flies with the newish 15hp merc. Only used about a litre of gas if that.

Good to see snapper showing up. I had a couple of throw backs which mr shag stolen for his tea. Those fish were all legal too. Nothing of decent size today but a feed none the less, currently sitting on salt ice awaiting the filleting table tomorrow morning.

Was awesome to get back out. I’ll try get out a lot more and report back regularly. Usually I fish the deeper channels but since I got rid of the lazercraft and downsized dramatically I think straylining the flats will be my go to this summer. Hoping to get a king too!

gurnard wrote: Good to see snapper showing up. I had a couple of throw backs which mr shag stolen for his tea. Those fish were all legal too.

Haha yeah it was a 27cm snap so barely legal and caught it mid air as I threw it back. It struggled to inhale it but not long after it drifted away trying to swallow the thing it returned for more. It was a bloody big bird however.

Straylined cubes of mullet and squid did the damage for me. I did have a yellowtail mack fillet out the back which resulted in a decent Kahawai but no big snapper. They’ll come…

Ok Manukau boys/girls. This Sunday suppose to be N/NE 10/12 am thinking might go up towards the airport,papakura channel??where it rises from 23m to 12m and fish the edge. Thoughts? 3.9m tide 9.50am high,thinking fish last of incoming and bit of out going.

Haven't done the muddy since Sept, got the kayak out off blockhouse bay. Stacks of sign, most Ive seen at anytime on the muddy, no bites on my go to spot, current was ripping thru there, water was dirty, which it usually is on the outgoing, half tide down... gave it an hr with no bites then paddled back in
Headed over to Kaitarakihi by Huia for change of tide, water cleaner, both places 18.6 deg, got bites on the incoming, kept a 38cm trev & a snap of 36, few throwbacks & baits being stripped clean without the rod nodding. The water got lumpy in the variable breeze just as the bite was coming on, so paddled back in. Both fish on frozen mullet