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Another one of after work trips, just had to try out trailer. On/off easy as, can do it solo if need be.

Went around to kaiaua farms and managed to get 9 small snapper,32/34,moved to a 16m mark I have and produced tiddly squat, undersize by miles. Fish not really biting but more mouthing,disturb after the weather??

And at least 12 gurnard all of 200mm.

Dumped all the valvoline 2s oil and refiled with quicksilver,what a difference,sat at 3800rmp which relates to 25mph ,return trip used 22lts as last time out almost 30lts,same conditions.


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Hey team,

Heading out tomorrow evening for a few hours around Auckland Harbour. Taking the little pup for his second boat trip so don't want to go too far.

Had a fish through Rangi Channel a few weeks back and got some good eaters on orange sliders and micros, but went out the next week fishing around the same area and off Cable Bay Waiheke area and got lots of small stuff - much harder fishing.

Keen to hear how people have been getting on and thoughts on where to go.

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Yes launching went fine ,motor went going good.Nil wind so off to Coro we went. Went our favourite farm but weighed down so no ropes to tie too. So anchored short of the farm and caught snapper in succession. Soft bait got hit hard on weigh down twice so 2 more for the bin. 8 around the 42/44 mark then went horribly quiet.
Lets move ,thats when trouble struck. Go to pull anchor up and Yes caught the mooring line,lot of backwards/forwards and gained some warp.Hmm now what?? Head towards farm and gain some chain.Winning.Ended up at first marker,released pressure and pop up came the anchor.

Went to another farm and anchored well clear. Then she who must be obyed hooked a hammerhead and around and around it went.Nicely tangled 3 lines so out with the knife.Time to go.Check prop for line and yes wound its way around. Freed so off to Kaiaua to top up bin. Another 5 iat 38/39 then water boiled .Hmm kings?? out with the balloon and up came 1 nice kahawai 600ish,gave it a second go and another kahawai. So totaled 13 snapper 2 kahawai. All n all not a bad day for a 5.00am start from home and return 2.00pm.
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The cobwebs on my truck's towball told a story of the crap weekend weather in the past couple of months, and family commitments on the rare mint days.

So this morning was a green light to try to Tamaki Strait on the incoming tide from dawn. Lots of fishy action amid the millpond off Beachlands in 7-9m, with small kahawai splashing at bait over a wide area, and plenty of bait sign - as Greenguy and Shark-Bait used to say on here, 'find the bait, find the fish'.
Well, I found the fish - on one big long drift towards the Ponui end of the strait I must have boated 25 fish on my cast or dragged softbaits - but 95% were 28-35cm long, and the smallest about 6cm! 

I put back quite a lot of small, but legal fish before realising that the chances of an upgrade were fading away, so if I wanted an overdue feed of snapper for the family I'd better keep some.
They scrapped hard, and the ones I brought home were in good condition. 

I hooked what was potentially a much bigger fish for about 2 seconds before it came off, but there was otherwise a complete absence of the 50+cm fish I expect to tangle with occasionally in the Strait.

Z Man 4" grub in Atomic Sunrise was the best performer, a nice bright colour in the quite dirty water.
 
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Went out today on the Nephews new Senator 7.40. Rides well and quiet with the 4 stroke. Went out towards Collville for under size/barely legal using softbaits and slides. Went on to use bait and the sharks arrived. Worked our back amongst the islands on way to coromandel .Hard day at the office with 6 snapper just over legal. Good day out . Spoke to a few at ramp and did no better. Thats fishing!!

Now on the bait front,used carp and it works. Liver and it works but one bite and its over. Mullet as per normal.
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Got out yesterday to Flat Rock, launched about 6am from Gulf Harbour and dropped the Kaburas as the sun was coming up. Was all on for about half hour or so with 6 fish up to 10lb. Must have caught the last of the bite time. Went quiet so followed some birds and sporadic little work ups between Kawau and Tiri for very little until about lunchtime. Lovely day on the water, flat calm and light wind. Haven’t had many of those this summer.
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Can metserv/windyty/predict get it right? Up at 4.30 and not looking good but short drive to ramp ,so no issue and away we go,se 15 with a chop in firth so went too mon o war bay mussel farm as I have never ever caught fish there,Anchored away from farm for a couple then went and tied on to farm and couldnt miss,Nephew took his boat and they caught plenty as well in the farm. Mrs C got her personnel best 56cm, most went between 35 and 42 got 13.



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Today was start the sanding day.

Well left home and arrived at ramp 5.30 and Yes had to que. Went acroos to Mania for 14 good keepers. 36/54

A couple of yellow tail and 2 kings hanging around that just ate scraps.

1/2 way back came across dolphins feeding and towed lure for 6 ocean going kahawai,smoke on Sunday,

arrived home 2.00pm with 3 snapper,rest given away.




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Finally, the weather comes right and we were able to get out on the water again. We launched Little Blue at half moon bay and headed out up Sergeant channel to the middle ground. There were acres of sooty shearwaters mainly sitting on the water but patches of kahawai breaking up all around. We picked up some kahawai and small pannies on kaburas, then headed out to the Aahas. It was oily calm at times. We anchored up with berley and a livey down deep and fished with jack macs and fresh kahawai. We ended up with 11 snaps up to 43cm, a big JD on the livey, and as a real bonus, our fav sashimi fish, a couple of stonking 30cm plus blue koheru.
All in all a fantastic day on the water.
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How’s the white filet problems, still there after all this rain or has things got better with the drop in temperature
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Originally posted by Kandrew Kandrew wrote:

How’s the white filet problems, still there after all this rain or has things got better with the drop in temperature
Just filleted 3 for dinner,36 cm snapper,knife has fat on it and nice translucent fillet,no mushy white filets. Need to get out there Kandrew,plenty to had and no measuring required
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Originally posted by Kandrew Kandrew wrote:

How’s the white filet problems, still there after all this rain or has things got better with the drop in temperature


We filleted 15 caught near whangaparaoa on saturday night, no white flesh. Great condition.
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Out from gulf harbour at 7.30 this morning with a light SW blowing, mainly fished the top of the peninsula with micro jigs, orange was the colour they wouldn’t look at anything else.

We had 11 by 11.00 nothing big just kept over 350mm.

When I filleted them 2 had white filets, so their are still some crap around.
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Originally posted by Kandrew Kandrew wrote:

Out from gulf harbour at 7.30 this morning with a light SW blowing, mainly fished the top of the peninsula with micro jigs, orange was the colour they wouldn’t look at anything else.

We had 11 by 11.00 nothing big just kept over 350mm.

When I filleted them 2 had white filets, so their are still some crap around.
Seems hit n miss regarding milky flesh.  What size had the milky flesh ?


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Originally posted by Pcj Pcj wrote:

Originally posted by Kandrew Kandrew wrote:

Out from gulf harbour at 7.30 this morning with a light SW blowing, mainly fished the top of the peninsula with micro jigs, orange was the colour they wouldn’t look at anything else.

We had 11 by 11.00 nothing big just kept over 350mm.

When I filleted them 2 had white filets, so their are still some crap around.
Seems hit n miss regarding milky flesh.  What size had the milky flesh ?


all were around 350mm but I was talking to a guy down the fishing club tonight and he recons it mainly the fish caught on the sand.
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you have to remeber that they are feeding up big time going into winter,the white flesh is due to there eating after sperning , a mid to late sperning has a lot to do with it. remember when you were young d...k first food later, when you get older food first and a beer then mummmmm if i can.
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Left home at 5.00am and got to Kaiaua farm around 6.30am,2 gurnard and 1 snapper in 2 hrs. So off out to the middle for nil.Up to Ponui farm and  6 more snapper,went quiet so off to rotoroa inside where the 3 reef system is. Lots of throw backs sub 32 cm picked up 1 more by then 1.00pm so "Times Up"

Nothing big all around the 34/36 and gurnard were 320/280 Refer Milky flesh thread.

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