I walked the bridge around lunchtime and there were quite a few fishing there, before the turn of the tide. Saw a few kahawai on the deck. Locals said they are catching them slow and steady, using cut baits. Others are targeting sprats etc with sabiki rather than wait for KY.

No probs I would have doubted it if someone had said it to me too. Have caught enough of both types of fish to distinguish them apart have never caught terakihi in anything less than 30m myself and never in a big estuary as the manukau is this far up the harbour.

Yeah, caught the snapper on a lime tiger lizard softbait.
Was a pretty decent fish considering we haven't caught any in the harbour for months 

Yep my friend an I got a small terakihi in a throw net at Cornwallis wharf 2years ago an couldn't believe it,along with a deck chair and some mackerel for livez

Headed out yesterday( Friday) at bottom of tide. Fished Huia ,wattle Bay,orua bay. Fishing patchy with bursts of activity. Ended up with 5 gurnard ,plenty Kahawai ,and a rig in the 5-6 lb range.
 In hindsight Think fishing would have been better inside of puponga point
Biggest gurnard -2 @ 47 cm.--1.2 kg according to the kitchen scales.All others over 40 cm.
Still no sign of roe in Most. Most unusual for July i think.
Tried some salted Bonito in Bonito oil. Nothing would touch it. Fresh mullet and frozen bonito were the go.
Interesting what they eat. Only one crab. Mostly fish-something that looked either like a small star gazer ,had a very wide head ,jaw like anchovy but to deep around the head for that. Maybe a lantern fish.? Also small flounder ,shrimp, a type of welk and a sea worm that was about 6inches long,black with a round head --looked like a centipede at first glance.
BTW-anyone use Cornwallis ramp. Can this be used at low tide.

Hey circus. Cornwallis has no ramp only beach launching. Right on low on a big tide there is a softish top layer but if u have 4wd and the boats not to big is it sweet. Ideally u avoid dead low.

Good day by the looks of it smudge.

I'm out there tomorrow and looking forward to it!

those are some meaty carrots Smudge and crew

Had another pearler day out there today.

That was a coutta that took away that gurnard yesterday and it was in the Papakura Channel.

we fished the usual places today and interestingly the 2 biggest gurnard took the same rig as the two biggest yesterday, a 2oz sinker straight onto a 4/0 recurve hook, cast out on the baitrunner.

Skoti was first up with a nice little carrot that will be a whole lot bigger next year.


Cypri's fish may take two or three years to get bigger


Of course the pics I post of myself would be the best ones! Got me 2nd place in todays fundraiser comp


Things were going well till I had a dizzy turn that reminded me why the 70's were so bad ...


I would like to say Skoti was loaded up on a mega gurnard but just another of the zillions of ky in the harbour right now


Hallucinating now from sun stroke it was obviously time to go to weigh in.

great laughs on the boat today, thanks Skoti & Cypri for making what has been one of the best days on the harbour this year, even if the fishing was slow. All up only 7 gurnard today but 3 real nice fish.

Another great day for you guys.  May this spell of light winds linger on.Agree that a big gurnard can fight like a Kai. The 1.2 kg fish on friday really took line and went well out the side of the boat and seemed to come to mid water. Was certain it was a Kai ,until i began to feel the bounce ,bounce motion that gurnard make as it neared the boat

What weight sinker is that hanging from the half gurnard?  I could have done with some of those yesterday, we had to abandon the spot we caught our only gurnard because our sinkers weren't big enough to get to the bottom once the tide really started going.  I sense a trip to the fishing shop coming on.