taurangatroutmaster wrote: Snapper bite hard at night. East coast fishing off the sand is always better at night. You still get kahawai at night aswell. Especially under lights at wharves. |
taurangatroutmaster wrote: Snapper bite hard at night. East coast fishing off the sand is always better at night. You still get kahawai at night aswell. Especially under lights at wharves. |
kitno wrote: Got 15 kahawai last night in Tauranga harbour. The bite died just before high tide. If you're willing to travel a bit further east, I can pm you some spots for winter fishing. |
taurangatroutmaster wrote: Try a small white or clear Pat swift silicon smelt on those kahawai under the lights. When they are on you get a fish every cast. As for the snapper after dark for sure, pilchards or anchovies, just make sure you tie them on well with bait cotton. 5 Oz BOS sinker and a short running trace (long traces tangle in the surf). A trick I used on that coast is to stakes Burley bomb in a stream flowing into the sea and it brings the fish right in close. Have had nights where everyone caught their limit doing that.even guys that can't fish. Some of the best fishing along that coast is between midnight and 3am. also make sure u have a light or glowsticks on your rod so you can see bites |
taurangatroutmaster wrote: Quite often it goes dead when the sun goes down and stays that way for a couple hours. For beach fishing anywhere along that coast I pretty much didn't bother before 10 pm if I was targetting snapper. Kahawai will bite hard all day along with the odd snapper. Those silicon smelt are deadly. When the kahawai were chasing whitebait in Tauranga habour we would average 70 to 80 fish in a bit over an hour at one spot on flyrods. The fly would be in the water for 2 to 3 seconds max before it gets eaten |
PJay wrote: "I know most fish tend to head into deeper waters during winter months and the harbour fishing drops off a bit." I'd respectfully disagree. Because our target species take their temperature from the water around them, they slow down with colder water and so don't feed as hard, but they don't stop eating altogether. They slow down, but they don't go away out to sea. Most of my big snapper have been caught in close during winter, and that's been an obvious pattern for each of the last 20 years. I think that may be because the bigger ones find it easier to shove the smaller ones aside when the smaller ones have less energy (and may need much less food). The fishing drops off in winter in the sense that fisherpersons' appendages do...so there's less fishing effort. |
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