Wellington Vis / water conditions
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Topic: Wellington Vis / water conditions
Posted By: Tall stories
Subject: Wellington Vis / water conditions
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2009 at 12:14pm
| I was thinking about comming down for a dive this weekend (im In Palmy) whats the water like on the south coast or would it be better to head around Makara ways? |
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Posted By: MattB2
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2009 at 12:49pm
| On saturday it is a southerly so you would definately be better off heading makara ways - Vis should be pretty good by then. South coast is pretty bad at the moment. On sunday its a strong northerly so probably wont be too good anywhere really - as the southerly on saturday would have stuffed the southcoast! |
Posted By: Tall stories
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2009 at 2:34pm
| is there still that moa point overflow issue, was thinking of coming down saturday early as the southerly isent strong till the evening. has anyone been out over the week was the vis bad? |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2009 at 7:40pm
| there was still people surfing yesterday.its not to good. |
Posted By: hunt&gather
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2009 at 9:33pm
I was out on Tuesday and water was good on west although all the rain meant green/brown stuff was oozing out of the estuary at mana. It looked to be tracking north so Makara and surrounds should be good - viz would have been 7m on Tuesday so should have improved further as long as that crappy stuff has stayed away. South coast will be a waste of time. I'm gonna try head out after work tomorrow so I'll post a report - got a couple of crays that I have a date with 
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Posted By: Tall stories
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2009 at 12:09pm
| cheers mate and yeah keep me posted on what your dive was like im gonna do a early morning mission from palmy and try to get a dive in before the swell picks up. |
Posted By: tuco
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2009 at 9:08pm
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Went for a dive today from about 1030 - 2pm a few bays from the quarry on the south coast. Vis was ok mostly, at about 3-4m but pretty hazy. No wind, but the swell did start getting up to 1m+ at irregular intervals. Not many fish about for me just a niiiice butter which was stolen, so in the end just a couple of crays and some decent paua. Also look out for that cheeky thieving seal with a fat butter fish in it's mouth, the greedy mongrel nearly choked on it haha! |
Posted By: hunt&gather
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2009 at 9:30pm
Went out late this arvo north of makara on a shorey. Viz was about 6m a bit hazy but nice diving. Plenty of butters and moki around and big schools of mackeral & kahawai buzzing about. Managed a cuple of crays, a butter and paua for a good feed. South was already here but not an issue.  Waiting for my mate to email a couple of pics to put up
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Posted By: Depth Charge
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2009 at 10:24pm
| Yep Makara is hazy from the amount of Salps and Jellyfish! Drunken Moki swimming sideways. Schools of baby Terakihi and Kahawai to be seen. 2 big Blue Cod and 2 legal Terakihi to be taken. Last dive with Drexciya for a while.....looking forward to exploring a bit of the AK coast. |
Posted By: tuco
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2009 at 6:37am
| Cool, sounds fishy! Heading to Makra shortly (this morning) with DK. |
Posted By: Tall stories
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2009 at 8:04am
| well got out to Makara yesterday vis was good just alot of small jelly fish. plenty of butters and moki which made for a heavy pack for the walk back. |
Posted By: Tomatron
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2009 at 11:01am
| Hows it all, what is the diving like out around that road that goes past Lyall bay? Looks OK, would I be wasteing my time for a bug or 2? I live in Porirua, just moved down here from AKL. Craving a cray and some Paua! If anyone wants to head out on weekends I may have time so feel free to drop me a txt. Cheers, Thomas. |
Posted By: hunt&gather
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2009 at 1:55pm
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You need to go round a bit towards devils gate for consistent bugs although they are spread over the south. I find west coast is more productive for me with crays but guess you just gotta get in and snoop around.
This is Fridays mission around Makara - not too greedy just a nice seafood platter.
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Posted By: jonnyc
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2009 at 8:25am
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Nice crays mate,
What technique did you employ... the smash & grab or the subterfuge?
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Posted By: hunt&gather
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2009 at 4:01pm
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Smash and grab bro - first girl I grabbed was straight in to the back of the cave up to my ankles. The second was bit more cunning - flushed her down the crack, to the backdoor that I had found (finding it out it pays to have a good snoop around before rushing in guns blazing) so she had nowhere to go with her tail facing me. Went out with Pete Lamb last Tuesday too and scored some nice Puka and snapper so the freezer is choka
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Posted By: DeKay
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2009 at 10:32pm
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Vis Monday evening on the south coast/ red rocks (That road just gets
more and more knarley) was an estimated 5-7m. A small swell and wind
chop combined with mild salps and jellie babies as well as fading light
limited the vis a bit. It was reasonably fishy with plenty of
butterfish, scarlet and banded wrasse, spottys and some small blue moki
& cod. Lots of small crayfish to be seen with 4 keepers taken for
the pot. Paua looked thin on the ground, some larger models under rocks
after 5-6m. A lovely orange sun set while driving around the coast. Some of the fish from Saturday north Makara. First fish for the day was the Mak. Not sure how it stayed on the float line for the whole dive.  Blue Moki  Add Golden syrup and bourbon...  What did it taste like? You'll have to guess. Dinner from the garden and the sea. Butterfish baked in tomato, herbs and feta. Parmesan crusted zucchini, silver beet and the last of the beans.  |
Posted By: hunt&gather
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2009 at 5:05pm
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Your posts always make me hungry Dekay - gonna have to go for god damn dive tomorrow now
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Posted By: e.m.p!
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2009 at 9:07pm
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Hi there, Have been in for a 'walk in the park' around Rat Island this evening. Vis has been pretty good on the weedline (>7m). Have seen a lot of the family – Moki, Butties, Cods and a whopping Paua (22cm!). Good fun! |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2009 at 9:15pm
| 220mm paua - awesome! Photo? |
Posted By: felixx
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2009 at 9:23pm
| that looks like a jolly good feed.... well done matey |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2009 at 9:45pm
bloody hell, have I finally found the 200mm+ paua? Say it's so!
------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: frank's a fairy
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2009 at 9:47pm
| island bay is a reserve? |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2009 at 10:11pm
| So? 220mm! |
Posted By: Omebic
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2009 at 10:11pm
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Isn't Rat Island AKA Tapu te Ranga? AKA part of the South Coast Marine Reserve? 220mm Paua is a monster - sell the shell and pay off your mortgage.
M
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Posted By: Local Buoy
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 11:15pm
| Conditions were perfect today at least 6-7 metre viz. |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 8:08am
| i went for a dive yesterday and got a 230mm paua, and an 8 kg cray. i was just swimming back and saw a 5m bronzie, shat meself ,and dropped both of them. sorry no pics |
Posted By: Yakkin Warrior
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 9:44am
| Had a swim near the boatramp round from moa point (no idea of the name). Followed the weedline round the bay down to 7-8m. First dive it was clear that 1. I'm seriously underweighted and was like a bobbing cork and 2. that my cold from last week has not cleared out since I couldn't equalise properly. GREAT. Swam round on the surface and saw a tiny cod who wanted to eat my flopper in the shallows and a small blue moki. No other life seen at all, area didn't look promising so close in, next time will get out deeper. |
Posted By: Omebic
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 10:49am
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Case you evil but funny man - you have 666 posts right now. M
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 1:42pm
 ha, no worrys omebic, seriously i am keen to see this monster cray though.
go gettim.
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 1:43pm
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ha, no worrys omebic, seriously i am keen to see this monster cray though.
go gettim.
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 1:43pm
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ha, no worrys omebic, seriously i am keen to see this monster cray though.
go gettim.
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Posted By: Cuzza
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 2:13pm
| Hey does anyone know the time difference between the Wellington tides and the tides at Sinclair heads? just cant seem to get the devils gate at slack tide. |
Posted By: Paul M
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 3:15pm
| That bit of water is influenced by both the pacific and tassy oceans, good luck getting that right |
Posted By: theclimb
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 5:23pm
| 8kg cray...hed nearley tow you under imagine the size of the tail that would be such an aewsome pic!just wondering if anyone has any idea of viz on south coast Wairarapa ? cheers |
Posted By: DeKay
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 10:06pm
| Vis should be good, a while since the last southerly, some calm days, northerly forecast tomorrow. I will be out in the morning. High tide for wellington 2.10pm, I'd imagine the salps will be around as well. |
Posted By: e.m.p!
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2009 at 11:58am
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I didn't grab it, as it is a reserve. I found the paua by chance, there was no indication of a 'nest' and it seemed to be only one around (that's probably why it survived this long). O.k. before I receive more grilling, I couldn't get my tapemeasure out (?), so I used bodyparts (!) and 22cm was the minimum  length! No seriously - it was the extended length from the tip of my thumb to the tip of my middle finger and this turned out to be 22cm.I know it sound odd and the max length is supposed to be 19 but I believe in 8kg Crays as well. 2 cent. |
Posted By: Fizzlesticks
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2009 at 1:05pm
I found this the other day, it may be of use to the geographically disadvantaged members of this forum
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mikefost/ipagezz.html - http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mikefost/ipagezz.html ------------- It doesn't have to be fun to be fun |
Cuzza wrote:Posted By: theclimb
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2009 at 4:22pm
| just shot out to Ngawi (sp) Wairarapa...... managed half a dozen butterfish and a nice Moki would say weight is at least 5kg-6kg will upload a pic soon..so was a really good morning viz was great up to 8M..any one else get out? |
Posted By: S.O.T
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2009 at 5:38pm
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You get harrassed by the seals? Did you dive north or south of Ngawi? |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2009 at 9:39pm
| kapiti today was green as.a colour change at the boulder bank corner but twas only around 5m vis and past snapper rocks was surfable swell. what happpened?must be the big tides at the mo? |
Posted By: Paul M
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2009 at 10:35pm
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Hey Case, I wouldn't have picked that mate, she looked blue as from shore all weekend. The tides are huge at the moment tho like you said. i often reckon the vis outr a t kapiti has heaps mopre to do with the tides than we give credit. Who did you get out with? my boats still out of action. |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2009 at 7:37am
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hey paul,my boat should be back together this week.ill give you a call when im heading out. i just went with a fishing mate up there.he had been out on friday catshing tuna galore just off the north end. got me all exited only to be shot down. |
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2009 at 8:32am
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Yeah Neil from Westcoat Charters was saying the same thing about albies. All the way down to Makara apparently.
------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: DeKay
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2009 at 10:22am
| Went for a swim saturday morning with tuco. We parked at devils gate and walked from there. The current was strong and vis was good 8-12m as we swam around. Plenty of good size butters around and some very large blue moki. I saw my second trumpeter ever, the same size as the last one (approx 20cm). Schools of makeral, small blue cod and the odd red moki were also around with the regular hiwihiwi and wrasse. We swam around some nice structure with walls dropping to 10-15m with sandy bottom. Some nice focussed buddy diving enabled us to go a bit harder with tuco getting great bottom times at 15m. A few crays on the way in (up to 8kg ;-) and we had a decent feed. Approx a dozen fish and a few crays between us. A walk back over the gate an a few mozzie bites later and we were off. That's two saturdays in a row with 10m vis and great hunting. Go Wellies! (winter soon and a new baby will put me firmly in the house for a while). |
Posted By: theclimb
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2009 at 6:14pm
| just round at the lighthouse.....the seals just seemed to bugger off and do there own thing once i was in the water...is it still ok to have your fish on a floatline if in heavily seal populated areas? i was just putting mine in the catchbag but became a pain as it was more or less like an anchor... but didnt want them to come over and clean them up when i wasnt looking??? cheers Perry |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2009 at 10:15pm
| Seals occasionally steal fish but that seems to be pretty unusual, at least around Wellington. It's never happened to me, even though I've had a few seals come sniffing around while I've had fish on a line. |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2009 at 10:59pm
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anyone know who put the two fads in on the boulder bank?
theyre only in 15m of water? very strange.
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Posted By: Terrapin
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 12:01am
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Hardly ever had problems with seals except 2 notably times. Was half way in from sunken rock one night just on dark when something hit my mates float in front of me. It totally freaked me out especially when I called out and got not answer from him and couldn't see him anywhere in the gloom. Just had to make my way back in and I was just about back when I got hit, when it came back for another fish I saw it was a seal to my relief. It had ripped the gun off my mate and once I told him it was a seal he swam back out and retrieved it. Weird cause I have hardly ever seen seals at Makara. One other time at Red Rocks a big bull seal took all of my girlfriends butters then swam at her and at the last minute turned and knocked her pretty hard. |
Posted By: MattB2
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 7:16am
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I have been diving at ngawi before and the seals never bothered me either- even though there is heaps of them around. My mate has had his fish stolen at makara by a seal too maybe there are more aggressive round there? haha.
I went for a dive on the the south coast yesterday, vis was real bad a breaker so ended up going to scorching bay for a bit of a look round. I saw what I'm pretty sure was a cuttle fish. Are these very common in wellington? was a weird looking little thing, just same past me and didn't see it again. Also found a pretty big conger in a hole round there - must be a resident
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Posted By: jaydogfish
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 7:08pm
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are the fads visible from the surface ------------- THE DOGG |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 7:56pm
| yip they are a bit of a shipping hazard really. |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 8:02pm
The notes on them say they are part of a larvae research programme. They're covered with sponges, presumably to catch the little fellas on their way past.
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 8:33pm
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ok no worrys.they looked pretty home made to me.so thats what people like herby get payed to do is it. reminds me of a time when i was working down south and doc were setting traps unsucessfully trying to catch rare tussock moths, the bulldozer driver came over and emptyed his airfilter out ,and it was chokka with them.
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Posted By: felixx
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2009 at 10:04am
I have used a catch bag for butteries and never had issues, but it is a pain to drag with 10 paua and a few fish. I have a paua spot near Kaikoura that is near a seal colony and I get to swim with them all the time.
One day I nailed a wrasse and let it drift by the seals, no interest in it.. maybe they were full up with squid, I used to see heaps of seals miles offshore when I was on the trawler.
Glenn
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Posted By: Tall stories
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 12:00pm
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Im thinking of comming down for a dive again this friday, what does the water look like? has anyone been for a dive on either coast lately or is planning on having a dive this week that could post what it was like.
cheers again guys
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Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 12:18pm
| Vis was rubbish at Kapiti but the guys who dived Makara yesterday said it was really good down there. |
Posted By: Omebic
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 12:30pm
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Hi Tall Stories we are planning on heading to Makara/Ohau Wednesday arvo if the wind permits so will post later in the evening for you.
We took the boat out from Makara on Saturday morning and vis was 2m in some places and 4-5m in others but glass flat at times. I imagine Sunday was better. Got a few crays, paua, butters and blue moki although I lost my dive torch transferring crays from pouch to boat and couldn't find it after scrounging around in 6m of murk. Some days on the water can cost alot.
M |
Posted By: Spearsniper
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 12:33pm
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Vis was shocking out at Kapiti on Sunday. We did a complete circuit of the island, and there were not any patches of clean water. There was also no clean layer of water under the dirty stuff from what I could see. On a positive note, we saw Albacore tuna smashing a school of baitfish around the back of the island. Murphy's law made sure that they were in the reserve!!! Really cool to see tho. |
Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 12:37pm
| Dived Southern end yesterday and it was complete arse - heard albies up to 35kg were being caught though... |
Posted By: chalkeye
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 6:01pm
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Made it out to Makara this afternoon for a poke around. Unfortunately my speargun didnt. ****. vis was pretty do-able, heaps of jellies that the spotties were happily noshing away on. saw all the usual crowd and an octopus, got seasick / grumpy at not being able to kill anything and came in. |
Posted By: MattB2
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 6:23pm
| I'm going to head round the titahi bay area tomorrow. Hoping the vis is ok and these northelies don't get too strong |
Posted By: Little Buddy
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 6:41pm
| Had a dive in makara today and vis was 2-4m very silty at times tho........ |
Posted By: Tall stories
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 7:25pm
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cheers for replys. has anyone been on the south coast towards the light house looks like its northlies all week. so west coast might be out. |
Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 9:02am
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South coast is still very dirty at the mo. Will take another day or two to clean up, which is a shame cause it is not work in doors weather. ------------- http://www.squidfish.net/ �.��.���'�.�����'�.��.���'�.� ><((((�> |
Posted By: MurrayC
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 1:48pm
| Kapiti was green and crud all the way around on Sunday 15th |
Posted By: e.m.p!
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 6:52pm
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This is a bit off-topic, but: Has anyone tried to catch/spear anything else than scallops and paddlecrabs in the harbour? Friend tries to convince me to go fishing with rod 'n' reel at Oriental bay, but I'm feeling happier in a wetsuit... |
Posted By: Omebic
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 7:26pm
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e.m.p at some spots in the harbour you can also get a good feed of mussels and watch seahorses at the same time - but not OBay.
M
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Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 7:31pm
| I think it could be really good with a bit of berley on the bottom. The fishos catch snapper, elephant fish, turkeys, gurnard etc and the harbour is never very deep so it's not like they're fishing in locations we can't reach. Problem is when the weather's good we're out on the coast somewhere, and when the weather's crap the harbour vis often means it is all but undiveable. |
Posted By: Local Buoy
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 9:37pm
| Vis on the south coast is a hazy 4 metres or so, not awesome but not total ****...seen some smaller moki and blue cod,no butters.Got paua and on our way back in seen some birds working so jumped in amongst it and there was a school of kahawai, I had a shot but missed (They move pretty fast dont they).My dive partner got a good one though.. Good fun! |
Posted By: DeKay
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 10:01pm
| Driving around lyall bay this evening and there was only the most gentle of ripples coming in. Might be reasonably good weds - thurs evening on the south coast |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 10:07pm
| Have speared butterfish,tarakihi, blue cod, blue moki, red mullet, arrow squid, flounder and sole in the harbour, and have caught some good crays - can't say where though - sorry! |
Posted By: Terrapin
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 10:15pm
| I reckon Wellington Harbour has heaps of potential but the viz is pretty **** even on near perfect days. That work they have been doing on the Hutt River has made things a whole lot worse over the last couple of years. Came down to Wellington 2 weekends ago when there was that nice viz on the south coast but sacraficed the nice viz for a harbour dive. Saw legal blue cod and some o.k trevs and kahawai. I would love to shoot an elephant fish. |
Posted By: MattB2
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 10:23pm
| Was out Titahi bay area today was nice viz 7-8ish m. Fish life was pretty dead got a few butters and a JD. |
Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 11:10pm
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Sounds like the vis is up and down all over the place. Hope Mana/Kapiti clear up for this weekend, might be checking out some reefs the scuba divers have been telling me about. |
Posted By: JamesHB
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 3:15am
| Does anyone know any easy to access places to dive around wellys. Ive just moved here for uni and have no knowledge of where to go.. Currently living in faerly terrace so i was hoping a walk of an hour or less would put me in a diving spot??? |
Posted By: MattB2
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 9:21am
looks like saturday will be the go for Kapiti - Turning back to southerlies saturday night 
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Posted By: MurrayC
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 11:33am
| hey anyone here the guy on the jetski pinging Butterfish at North end of Kapiti on Sunday? I was going to swim over and say howdy and check out your setup, but you had gone by the time i had checked out my first spot. |
Posted By: MattB2
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 12:12pm
Do you guys think it would be possible to berley up and then drop down on it to shoot a snapper? or would they just take off before you even had a chance to lay eyes on them? Im curious because my brother has caught snapper in the harbour in some quite shallow places.
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Posted By: Tall stories
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 12:32pm
| is there any where in wellington you can find shootable size trevally outside of the harbour? Also has anyone had any luck shooting gurnard, JDs or anything besides butters, blue cod or moki. not that im complaining just I like abit of verity and challange. |
Posted By: MurrayC
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 1:12pm
Last summer JD's were in abundance Kapiti way. I also pinged a panny snapper off the south end (and saw another the following weekend). I have seen a couple of Boarys off Kapiti too - but rare as rare. We get in amongst turkeys every time we go looking for them too (burley helps).
I think if you want variety you need to head north.
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Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 1:30pm
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Vis in the harbour is not very good, so you would at least see the
snapper. Getting a shot off before they spooked might be difficult, but
they can sometimes be stupid when berley is involved. I've also shot a
few up north simply by dropping down on them, so it is worth a go. Tall Stories - Hunter bank can be good for big trevally |
Posted By: Omebic
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:21am
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We spent yesterday arvo diving along the The big cray had left its hole which was dissapointing, still the colony was there.
M
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Posted By: MattB2
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2009 at 5:04pm
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Went round red rocks this afternoon, got to the carpark and saw heaps of people with cameras and thought wat r they up 2? turned out there was a pod of orcas swimming around. We drove round past the first bay and there was a spearo in the water with all the orcas swimming around him ( anyone from here?). We got kitted up and the orca's moved on so didn't end up swimming with them. They were leaping out of the water and putting on quite a show.
Got in and the vis was a pretty nice 8-10m. Wasn't too many fish around so had to settle for some big paua and a cray. Was a real nice dive even though I didn't bring any fish home!
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Posted By: daveo
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 12:14pm
| so whats the go for tommorow? does anyone think red rocks will be any good |
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 12:18pm
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Southerlies due afternoon . Best dive would be an early session METSERVICE: Tomorrow: Variable 5 knots. Southerly 10 knots developing in the morning, rising to 25 knots gusting 35 knots in the afternoon. Smooth sea, becoming slight in the morning, then rough in the afternoon. Fine at first, then fair visibility in showers developing in the afternoon. ------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: daveo
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 1:29pm
| might go for a early one out kapiti island |
Posted By: jaydogfish
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 5:42pm
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yer anyone been to makara recently. heading out tomorrow morn ------------- THE DOGG |
Posted By: hunt&gather
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:43pm
| might see you there jaydog - should be mint |
Posted By: Local Buoy
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:50pm
| hey guys, how long does it take for makara to clean up after northelies? will it be alright this sunday? Ive never been, but might just try it out if i get a chance sunday. |
Posted By: jaydogfish
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:59pm
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sweet hope that nw doesnt pick up heading out round seven on zodiac ------------- THE DOGG |
Posted By: Local Buoy
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2009 at 5:53pm
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Anybody know what Makara is was like today? |
Posted By: frank's a fairy
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2009 at 6:53pm
| what did i miss out on today at kapiti? my brother took the boat out, i was left staring at the flat sea all day. |
Posted By: JigKid
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2009 at 7:02pm
Oh we saw Quentin I think it was in the centre console surtees? Was a mean day out! Kingis, Albies and snapps!
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Posted By: Local Buoy
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2009 at 7:35pm
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Am I right to think if Kapiti is good Makara is good too? |
Posted By: tuco
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2009 at 8:40am
| Thinking of heading to makara today too, and was wondering the same thing....... Anyone got recon' from the area? |
Posted By: frank's a fairy
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2009 at 1:33pm
pretty sure this is a spearfishing forum isaac..  |
Posted By: Spearsniper
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2009 at 2:04pm
Quentin in the centre console surtees was spearfishing 
The vis hasn't really picked up from last weekend. A hazy 7-10 meters at best, but plenty of fish action if you were not after kingies.
The two of us ended up with a reasonable catch - Tarakihi, trevally, butterfish, john dory, butterfly perch (for a curry), and a few paua.
Flat seas on a weekend was a nice change
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Posted By: frank's a fairy
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2009 at 2:14pm
| sounds like a mint day. pics? we need more kapiti reports on this forum! |
Posted By: Spearsniper
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2009 at 5:09pm
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One of the better days this summer for sure. With the way the weather has been out at Kapiti this year, a report may only be valid for a few hours. |
Posted By: Paul M
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2009 at 10:00am
| What size were the trevs Q? |