gurnard wrote: Hard going ! The family and I fished the firth last night, just off the beach at the top of the tide. We got 4 snapper (sorry the Mrs and my son did) I just cast baits and baited hooks. Some nice pannies though. Kept one! Does anyone know if you can net mullet by the Tuakau bridge? There's a lot of current but there's a small beach there that I have thought about putting the net in on dark parallel to the shoreline.

I believe south of Hoods Landing only,theres a sign there that shows where you can or cant net.

gurnard wrote: Yeah, Tuakau is south of Hoods landing. I guess I'll have a go with trial and error. Have set the new net twice this week for zero fish so I'm itching to work this damn thing out

No tuakau is in a northly direction,netting allowed from Hoods to the ocean

gurnard wrote: Have a look at the MPI website or download the fishing rules app. There is NO set netting allowed anywhere near the heads. This photo is a screen shot from the website. Hoods landing is much closer to the heads than Tuakau is.

Take a drive out to "Hoods" and  read council bylwas,I see mpi  have revised set net rules in December 2023. I know bylaw says you cant net left of the ramp,so maybe no go area?  Think we gave it a go in 2023 june?cant remember but what I do know was a lot of effort for 1 mullet and a carp

Talking about 'left of the ramp' is pretty confusing, I would say east or west of the ramp. Pretty sure it is west of Hoods that has the restrictions but I haven't been mullet netting in years

Tonto2 wrote: Pretty sure the line goes from the Port Waikato wharf to the southern most picnic area through the forestry. Where did you get your net? I bought one from Smart Marine but it did not have enough floats, which ended in way too much by catch as it was sitting to low. After adding more floats it was away. Mullet have been hard to come by lately in my end of the harbour. Haven't been to the river for a few years now.

I set it again last night, no luck. Saw Koi carp infront of the net but they were monsters, probably too big for my mesh size.

Cheers mate. Much appreciated

Great fish over high tide this morning in the habour. Took home mainly snapper in the 45 to 47cm range. Lovely weather.
There were about 15 big boat trailers at tetoro this morning, the bar must have been busy.

The best were in 15m. That is not my normal but my super light anchor had pulled. I don't like lots of current anchoring the jetski.

A busy day out on the Tasman yesterday . Just about a queue of boats at the South Channel at 8am . Chucked an array of Skippy and Albie lures in at 70m and got the first big 5kg Skippy taking the ever reliable CD9 Rapala at 80m. Had a Marlin in the gear at 90m,  but probably our lures were too small to induce a strike. After a number of triple hookup chaos sessions we hooked a marlin briefly at 100m . It had grabbed a skippy that had just taken the smallest little Williamson feather Jethead lure. Within seconds it was 20m off our beam, thrashing around trying to wolf down the jumbo Skippy. It then shot off tail walking around the back of the boat at which point the 10kg line snapped . Great sight though. Saw lots of surface splashing at 60m in green water on the way back in so put the lures back in in the hope of some Albacore but it was more Skippies. Tried for snapper at 30m off Hamiltons Gap with not a touch so came back in to the 50m Paratutae hole, but it looked like sharks had taken over for the day.