waiheke island landbased fishing
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: Landbased & Surfcasting
Forum Description: From rocks or beaches, here's the place for the landbased fishos to share information
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Printed Date: 29 Jan 2026 at 1:52am
Topic: waiheke island landbased fishing
Posted By: LEVCAT
Subject: waiheke island landbased fishing
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2005 at 4:39pm
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HAVE ANY OF YOU LBG ENTHUSIASTS HAD ANY LUCK ON WAIHEKE ISLAND. I GO THERE REGULARILY ABD WANT TO KNOW SOME PRODUCTIVE SPOTS TO FISH. CHEERS |
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Posted By: Blue Asparagus
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2005 at 7:43pm
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left from the back of the ferry over the hill down the other side about 30 min walk great kings snapper and trevs oh and bronzies. ------------- Ultimate GAME Fishing Adventures. Northland |
Posted By: LEVCAT
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2005 at 9:55am
| huh. what ferry. |
Posted By: JK
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2005 at 5:22pm
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hey levi, welcome to the forum. BA's talking about the main ferry to waiheke that comes in at matiatia Also worth a shot are the rocks out to the left of oneroa and both sides of palm beach. In fact theres plenty of spots worth a fish round that island ------------- LedgeNZ LBG |
Posted By: JonnyBlaze
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2005 at 10:38am
...but there are no fish there...
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Posted By: Nathan
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2005 at 12:25pm
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Blaze, Fished one of the islands off the back of Waiheke once. Accessed it from Kawakawa bay in the dinghy. Good set up, deep water, a bit of current, nice ledge to fish on etc. Caught nothing but piper, and a few small kahawai. Im sure it would fire on its day. A few dickheads in boats anchored about 20 metres from us!!
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Posted By: Nathan
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2005 at 12:26pm
| As a regular - whats your recomendation? |
Posted By: ACHILLES
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2005 at 6:42pm
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Facing towards the beach at oneroa go right , out to the end of the point not last sunday but the sunday before that I caught 3 snapper and 2 trevally all good size. Watch the tide and swell |
Posted By: LEVCAT
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2005 at 8:06pm
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what about the rocks to the right of onetangi. heard a story of someone catching monster snapps there two weeks ago. rumour or not? |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2007 at 8:22am
| Hi People i'm off to Waiheke for a club fish on the 26th will take 7am ferry and walk from there, usally go left to small isld.but thought a change might be good . Any one been fishen there laterly and whats it like goin right from ferry.An open invo to any one that wants to come go's |
Posted By: Accident Prone
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2007 at 9:23am
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In some of my younger years when my dad lived at Palm Beach we had some
very successful fishing off the right hand side of Palm Beach (not all
the way out to the point either but back about 75m facing the left hand
side of the bay. Caught many snaps there biggest went to my younger
brother of around the 5.5kg mark an I got a 6.35kg trev there one day
which is still my personal best trev. Had some awesome fishing also around the left hand point of Onetangi bay, we walked there from Palm beach though and took a hell of a long time to get there and had to do it at a lowish tide. The fishing was awesome though! Schools of slimies all around the ledge and big kings feeding hard on them right at our feet (didn't have any gear suitable for targetting them at the time though) but was awesome to watch, we caught a shyte load of good sized pannies though including a 4.5kg snap on a heavy duty handline just thrown out about 2m in front of our feet. Biggest snap we ever got off the island went to my dad with a snap of 12.27kg out of a dinghy in the shallows in the right hand side of Onetangi bay in the middle of winter  Would love to head back there one day and revisit some of our old favourite spots. |
Posted By: Shilo
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2007 at 7:33pm
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Tried landbased off Park Pt (to the right of the ferry) a couple of weeks ago. Looked promising at full tide but very rocky for about 30m out at low tide just about the length of the point. I'm a local but only occasionally fish here during the summer since there are to many bait thieving baby snapper around, winter improves a bit. The island to the north of Matiatia used to be my favourite spot with some good kings cruising around at times. Interestingly there have been a few kings caught at Huruhi Bay (Surfdale) from the seat on the gravel Esplanade Rd that goes around the coast from Blackpool to Surfdale. Its only 2m deep here at low tide but seems to be fishing well at high tide and dusk at the moment. Cheers Grant |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2007 at 7:40am
| thank you for that grant cheers Bas |
Posted By: beno101
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2007 at 7:19pm
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Hey Levcat, JK put me onto a mean spot (to add to afew I'd allready found) when I was living over there last year, LOTS of fish. I'll PM you.Blaze, "NO FISH", are you fishing from the wharf or what?
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Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 7:45am
Beno any chance of pming that on to me as well buddy
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Posted By: JonnyBlaze
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 8:26am
It's called sarcasm last I heard.
The wharf actually in its own way has produced alot of good fish for my mates and myself as it is a great place to get fresh bait which in turn get the bigger fish later on.
The best spots I have fished over there have been accessed with a boat but had many a productive time just walking either side of the ferry. I like the cooler months for that area myslef as there are to many gold fish in the summer.
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beno1 wrote:Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 8:53am
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Some guy caught a 12kg munter of a snapper off the rocks at Palm Beach early Feb I think it was. The pic is in one of the recent NZFN mags. That's a wicked fish from that area. ------------- What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck. |
Posted By: JK
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 10:53am
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hey beno remind me of that spot mate...maybe via PM lol
Passed on so many spots to people i lose track but glad to hear the one i recommended (whichever bloody spot it was) worked for you! hehe ------------- LedgeNZ LBG |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 11:03am
| yes saw that fish really wicked wonder how many times that had been hooked and lost (lost a monster from the deep really it was as big as a house) nice to know someones xmas can be gotten by fishen close to Auck |
Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 11:18am
There must be some wicked fish residing in close around Waiheke. I am soon to acquire a kayak which I�ll keep at the bach over there. I intend to use it to get to some hard to get to spots. If I get busted off by something decent from the rocks, I�ll just re-rig, jump in the kayak and try from the other angle. ------------- What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck. |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 12:39pm
| Finatic i've always though that would be the way to go around Rangi bloody hard place to walk around and its still one of the untouched. |
Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 1:27pm
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Yeah, some good spots over there for sure Bas. Just look at that munter that your club mate Peter Reynolds pulled out from over there a couple of years back.
I've fished Motutapu, but that was for a mates stag do, so more time was spent drunken than anything else. Fark hiking over those hills out of there! ------------- What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck. |
Posted By: charliedog
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 6:00pm
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yes Petes fish was a goodie' at the mo he's trailing sp's lbing and havein a lot of luck, mind you Pete could catch a 20lber out of a bath tub . may be fishen with him and Ted Audain sunday week , have to wait and see. ------------- i thought i could i think i can OH SH*T OH DEAR |
Posted By: JK
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 8:04pm
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ahh Ted Audain...loves his boulder bays that fella ------------- LedgeNZ LBG |
Posted By: charliedog
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 8:49pm
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HI JK Dave here Bas has allways said that Ted Audain has a wealth of knowledge on rock fishing that would be hard to beat and a record to show ------------- i thought i could i think i can OH SH*T OH DEAR |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2007 at 8:26am
and the man can fly too slipped off a cliff fell 80 odd ft  when the others got to him (this is at night) expecting the worst he's all ready got the burley going and the first fish comeing in . only afew cuts and abrasions to show . lucky Ted
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Posted By: charliedog
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2007 at 11:40am
dam just found out that i have to take the sch rugby team a long to play in a invertaion at the bar-bars club rooms put on by the abs . the teacher going can no longer take them ,should be a it of a blast .the abs ref the games and after talk to the boys and sign autograths a long with a bbq. so looks like my trip with club will have to wait .I wonder if any like rock fishing !!! ------------- i thought i could i think i can OH SH*T OH DEAR |
Posted By: Beer Lout
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2007 at 11:25am
Waiheke fired over the weekend! After reading the weather forecast I wasn't sure that I would get any fishing done, but it cleared hard out and away we went. At 'the spot' on the rocks, me and the lad were in to snapper 35-40cms within minutes and kept slayin' them all day. I enjoyed a mammoth fight with a 9 pounder that must have been on steroids - he just robbed me reel blind. Our girls came down to see us with sandwiches in tow, bless 'em so we set them up with some rods and they were smashing them as well! In all we caught roughly 20 snapper and a sizeable blue cod in a little under two hours and kept only the last three caught to wave over the manuka. Criminally fun fishing...
 The lad with a nice pannie
 The last three destined for the smoker...
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Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2007 at 2:46pm
well done Lout looks like you had a ball. great report
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Posted By: Bungel_
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2007 at 3:41pm
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I like your style guys... nice effort and nice feed to for the table!!! ------------- here fishy, fishy fishy..... |
Posted By: LEVCAT
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2007 at 5:41pm
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choice effort, well done. looks like you accessed 'the spot' via farm land.
a slight 'clue' as to where it is located would be greatly appreciated. hint, hint. wink, wink.
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Posted By: Beer Lout
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 11:10am
| That's true, Mr LC. The lad works on a winery in Waiheke and is part of managing access to the beach, usually that means telling rod holders to 'Foxtrot Oscar'. But excellent if you know someone in the know! Tell you what, next time we head out there I'll track you down via a subject header or pm you? Otherwise it's tough to get there. I wish I had a photo of the actual spot though, talk about ticking every box for snapper. |
Posted By: pedestrianfisher
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2024 at 1:11pm
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Kia ora, I'm heading to Waiheke tomorrow and was wondering if Palm Beach rocks are still worth a shot? What bait is best on Waiheke at the moment? Thank you
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Posted By: pedestrianfisher
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 6:56am
| PS had a great time on the rocks and caught a nice kahawai! Used strips of bulllet tuna. |