josephal wrote: What sort of rigs and sinker weights are you guys using on the manukau? When I tried fishing it last year the current was horrendous lol. Granted you said try fishing couple hours before high. |
cirrus wrote: Nice looking catch john,with some sizeable fish there,and all showing good condition. Was considering a late afternoon ,early evening trip my self, but the sudden arrival of a fairly fresh south wester put paid to that. Strange about no Kahawai. Associate this time of year with a few big ,very fat, roed up Kahawai. |
Skoti wrote: We probably didn't need such an early start yesterday but launched just after 6 yesterday from Te Toro . Bar was flat and just a little lumpy on the end of it with the out going tide . Out to 60 meters and found the fishing slow with a snapper here and there but probably 2 million sharks . We persisted for a few hours slowly filling the bin with reasonable sized pennies all the while releasing twice the number of sharks . We moved in closer to a spot Neil had on his GPS at about 38 meters and then the fishing came alive and we filled the bins . Best snapper was about 8 lb caught by Neil's daughter , we also had a few trevs , my and gurnard in there too . |
TimTheEagle wrote: Looks like we all had similar snapper fishing and great days out. With all the wind we've been having it was nice to get out in light winds. Our story is pretty similar to Smudge but we left at 1130 and went out to 47m. Fishing slow and got a number of kahawai, gurnard, one trev, pannie snapper and one 55cm, a small and a medium tope. Hmm quite a bit of gear wasted on the tope. Came back into 30m at 1730 but pannies got smaller and one got taken by what I imagine was a large shark (kingfish in my dreams) as it broke my line before we could see it. Time to go home so crossed back in at 1830. Conditions were great but we effectively crossed pretty close to low and high tides. Great day out. How far out were you trolling for the Albies Smudge? |
olfishbelly wrote: Is Monday 27 January going to be a safe day to cross the bar? I did a crossing with the Coastguard a few years ago but never ventured over again. Be keen to follow another boat out if anyone's willing to have us tag along. The forecast looks good weather wise with light winds and swells just over a metre. But I realise there's more to making a call than that. I'm not too sure whether it's a good day in terms of tidal flow, or what times would be ideal to cross and come back. Any help appreciated. Cheers, Joe. |
olfishbelly wrote: Thanks, Mac. So cross out a bit before high tide and return a bit before low tide? I thought from the coastguard educational videos that you should avoid crossing a few hours either side of low? Is it better, if possible, to cross both ways on an incoming tide? |
MacSkipper wrote:
Manukau bar is not too shallow at low tide unlike some bars but is usually rougher on outgoing tide as all the water trying to get out and usually west coast swell trying to get in. Avoid peak outgoing tidal flow. Really on the day have a look and follow someone out if someone going out on Mon here they may offer? If in doubt don't go! Log a trip report with coastguard! |
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