3 Mile Reef
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
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Printed Date: 09 Jun 2026 at 12:54pm
Topic: 3 Mile Reef
Posted By: EKO
Subject: 3 Mile Reef
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2007 at 7:26pm
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I haven�t got a depth sounder yet, what's the easiest way to find 3 mile reef outside of the harbour I want to fish the right hand side, is it buoy #4? to line up with it. The left side out by the old woman is a pice of cake to find. ------------- Its not about the size of your boat! "But how you use it |
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Posted By: tobez
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2007 at 8:05pm
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i tried to get land marks off the chart but to hard..
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Posted By: EKO
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2007 at 8:54pm
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Can you upload the chart to pdf?
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Posted By: empty
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2007 at 9:14pm
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wheres 3 mile reef ------------- what happened to the pissing man? |
Posted By: Goneburger
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2007 at 9:24pm
I'm from Whangarei, but have not fished huge amounts up there since a kid. From what I remember it's basically as it sounds, 3 miles off entrance to Whangarei harbour and I think you just take a line off the last main bouy marking entrance into the harbour. Essentially it's foul ground in deepish water and in summer can really fire up at times, but is heavily fished. Bit like the worm beds in AKL, but different bottom obviously. Couple of Whangarei guy's on the site will probably give you much more detail..
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Posted By: Uffy1
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2007 at 10:15pm
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EKO,
You will find it tough without a sounder as the reef is a large area of low foul with the fish often in patches and not all over the reef.
A good place to start would be at the fairway buoy (the furthest one out - red and white) and head due south from there. Once you have gone about 800m you should start hitting the foul. It runs right across Bream Bay from there right down to the Waipu end. If you can locate a chart you will see where I mean.
There should be a few snapper out there at this time of year and probably more than a few boats on a good day so this would help you out.
Best of luck.
Uffy.
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Posted By: brown
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2007 at 11:01pm
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EKO-try this for size...... http://www.autoseek.co.nz/CCI00001.pdf - 3 Mile Reef Chart Shown on there as #4...hope this helps.
Fishing out there has been quite sparadic lately...but there's always enough for a feed
 Drop us a PM when your heading out...
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Posted By: puruhi
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2007 at 5:02am
| just keep Mangawhai sand hills visible out from bream tail and the Ruakaka river mouth opposite andyou can,t miss it ,was there last Friday a lot of goldfish and rats, but still got a bin full of smokers |
Posted By: EKO
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2007 at 6:57pm
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Thank you very much for the information, Im heading out early saturday morning. fingers crossed, last week with the charter operator wasnt so good as it was a dead moon, but I have been told the fishing should be on every were from Wednesday to Sunday. Oh they are catching snaps around 7 to 9 kg at the chicks on the good days. Also I have heard that in 14 days time the fish should be on....spwan time lets hope. ------------- Its not about the size of your boat! "But how you use it |
Posted By: Caillan
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2022 at 9:54am
| Hi does any1 have a map where the 3mile reef is in whangarei please? |
Posted By: Skoti
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2022 at 1:43pm
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Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2022 at 1:54pm
Skoti, you're going to give away all the secret fishing spots! |
Posted By: Skoti
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 12:29pm
Not my spot , so it doesn't matter 
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Posted By: Reel Deal
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 12:51pm
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fished it Saturday as drifting wasn’t producing. Plenty of pennies there. Good luck ------------- The gods do not subtract from the allotted span of men's lives the hours spent on fishing - Assyrian Proverb |