Out with the "Twelves"

Hi there, Cirrus, FQ and co.

A colleague had the same experience on the Okahu public ramp yesterday at low tide - nearly fell over, and vehicle slipping.

So today he rang the Council call line (301 0101) and got put through to someone in safety who seemed genuinely concerned and said they would follow up with the relevant team to remedy it.

If you want to add your experience to the above, the reference number is 8110374773.

Cheers.

Drifted from naval dock towards Devonport wharf for babies.  Moved to near the container terminal and caught 4 small keepers 32 to 38cms.  As Lingee says, they're in good condition, nice fat fillets.  Successful lures were Zman 4" curlytail electric chicken, and 3" blue/grey shad.  Also an orange kabura got one right at the end by slowly winding in, not dragging like most of the morning.

Lester, it was low tide when I got back to Okahu Bay and it was slippery, but not dangerous like a few weeks ago, so someone probably cleaned it.

Dan, tried to catch a livie but got only baby snapper, so no kingfish rig today.

Tried something different.  Launched St Heliers and went to Islington Bay looking for jack macks.  Nix, so plan B was drifting for snapper in the Motuihe channel area.  Tiddlers for the first hour or so, and a hapless 31cm snapper was the first into the bin about 11:30.  It wasn't until north of the channel and drifting from about Otahuhu Pt to Home Bay that the fishing improved.  Came home with 5 snapper, 31 to 36cm, so all small, and a lot under 33cms released.  The Zman electric chicken 4" curlytail seems to work well in bright light, and was the best lure.  The Kaveman 60g orange/yellow kabura started getting much more attention after noon, and was working well when slowly wound up from the bottom.

Great weather, gentle breezes.  Back at the ramp at St Heliers a big bloke saw my boat was getting stuck in the mud, so waded out and wrestled it free.  He then insisted on winding it onto the trailer, saying how light it was.  Must have been doing my damsel in distress impression.

A boat boy to clean the fish, boat and gear would be nice.

Launched St Heliers and fished Motuihe channel area.  Took my eldest son and hoped to have him hooked up all day, but not to be.  Similar conditions to 2 weeks ago with outgoing tide and a bit windy.  To start fished the area from Otahuhu Pt to Home Bay which was best 2 weeks ago.  Son caught a 38cm snapper quite early on a 4" Zman electric chicken curlytail, but after that, lots of crabby drifts with baby bites and baby snapper released.  Tried back at the southern end of Motuihe channel, but SE wind got up and drove us into the ferry lane.  Ended the session back near Otahuhu Pt and after maybe 10 minutes slow jigging with an orange/yellow kabura, got another snapper, this time 36cms.

A small feed for the family

Sat 27 Feb 2021

0700 to 1345

Fished Park Point, Tamaki Strait and Motuihe Channel

Softbaits did most of the damage in the morning. 

Then the wind got up. Was howling down the Tamaki Strait by noon, switched to feeding tungsten microjigs down the drift and the bigger fish came on. Birds were active with snaps below. 

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Nice that worked SPs did a lot better than dragged ones: yay! My natural skill.  Ahem.  Bruised banana seemed better than the new penny, with nada on other colours.  Lots of small stuff though.

Oh well, back up north hopefully.

Back by 10:30 since I had to go to work but to be honest I should have just stayed on the boat. Totally useless zombie mode with the early start, no sleep and fishing in the brain.