Hi

I am very keen to do some coarse fishing in and around the Auckland area. The species I would like to target are carp, tench, rudd, cat fish and the like. Bearing this in mind, I would be very keen to hear from anyone that has any advise to give about the following topics:

1. Best locations (rivers, lakes or dams)

2. Best techniques (float or sinker)

3. Baits (what has worked for you)

I am also keen to hear about any successes anyone has had as well as any other relevant advise anoyone may have to give.

Cheers

Morning Sugar reef

There is not a lot of it about (coarse fishing that is). If you do a search on these forums using "Waikato" and "carp" you will drag up a few useful threads i think.

There are a lot of carp (koi) in the Waikato river, along with Rudd, Catfish, Mullet and trout, but they are not easy to get at. There is a lake by the Bombay service station (which I must fish sometime) which holds a good head of Carp, Tench, perch, and other freshwater varieties. I understand it is day ticket and that good bags can be had.

Let us know how you get on

Chris

Cheers Rainman!!

I look forward to hearing from you.

Hi Sugar Reef

I have been fishing in lake Pupuke with a good success. Its a night fishery and you can catch good fish in summers. I use floats because of the weeds.

Hi Shoby

Thanks for the advise.

Could you please let me know what bait you are using when you fish the lake. I have tried about 5 different types but with no success.

Also, are you fishing from the shore or using a canoe?

Sweet corn and Bread always do for me. What types of baits did u try and when? The pupuke fishing is taking momentum slowly. I am a shore fisherman never used canoe!

Cheers

Hi,

do you use Boilies for fishing for carp in NZ. ?

I'm from germany and i visit NZ from Dez.

My main interrest are fishing for eels and i looking for useful  information

how to fish for them.

Greetings from germany,Tom email:[email protected]

Sugar reef,  the lake at Muriwai used to be very good indeed, good rudd, perch and tench there.

From memory take the road from the golf course to get there (check on a map)

I caught a large tench there once using a small perch as bait (or it may have been the other way around, cant remember now, long time ago!)

LOL. It was the other way round Trenta. Tench are mainly bottom feeding vegys. altough they do eat the odd worm or mollusc. Perca Fluviatalis on the other hand are big mouthed, eat just about anything stripey beasts.  I have caught plenty over the years here, and they can be easily tempted with either a small specimen of their own species, or small spinners.

TOM. Iam not in NZ, but very much doubt that boilies will be available as Carp are OFFICIALLY a pest species and must be killed on capture. Unless you intend to keep them for the table, it would be a rather expensive way of catching them. If you are thinking of bringing your own, you should check with the correct govt. dept. as to what you are allowed to import with you. We dont want you getting arrested at immigration because you are carrying a bag full of strange smelling brown balls.

Hi Shoby

I was also using bread baits and worms. I was not however using a float to try and catch them but rather the bottom feeding sinker method.

Thanks for the tips on the lake at Muriwai.

Please keep the excellent feedback on baits and fishing spots coming.

I have seen boilies at stirling sports(shop) never used em though!

Sugar Reef. Try float mate. It will work. If really wana use the sinking method then try without adding lead(sinker). I caught 12 rudds in 2 hrs last weekend. They are huge in number aye!

Germantom boilies are'nt used down here mate, the carp are not that clever like european ones and can be easily caught on bread, sweetcorn etc.

Eels are more interesting though they grow monsterous down here I hear stories of blokes spearing them in lakes and rivers and they are nearly 2 m long and a massive girth. Would be a blast on rod and line they would. Here's a tip try a bit saltwater fishing too mate there's some great fish to be caught. Good luck.

Muppet. The old boilie and Carp thing puts up a big question mark over supposed fish intelligence I think. Same goes for the highly technical rigs employed by carp fishers in some places.

In some fisheries here, you simply cannot catch carp on anything other than a bait they have not wised up to, fished on a rig they have not previously come accross. Sure makes ya think.

Agreed with Muppet! I have heard in Tauranga people use shot guns to get those monsterous eels. Amazing aye!

Penguin I reckon some of the rigs used in britain are overkill to say the least. The best baits are the ones with no weight on them at all, freelining or floating. I used to pole fish in britan with no float and just drop a hooked bait in amongst loose feed, worked a treat. But its up to the individual fisherman eh its his choice on how he goes about it.

Sounds like a pretty good idea Muppet. I tried a similar tactic with Rudd livies for Pike a few years back. They were just to lively though and couldnt get them to stay attached for long.

The other trick that can work a treat, is using poly. balls to keep a bait suspended. This works best when bottom fishing, and you want to make the bait stand up of bottom. You simply balance the size of bait to the size of poly ball (or a piece of cork), till it just sits up without floating to the surface.

Whenever there's a kingie sniffing around shoby!.

I did the polyball thing in Britain a few times Penguin but did'nt really enjoy that way of fishing, Pike fishing was all about Drennan pike bungs for me mate. Nothing beats the sight of a Bung dissapearing down the water, you know what I mean Penguin. My mom is visiting me Christmas my requests include Drennan loaded crystal waggler's to catch piper and Drennan Pike Bungs to put them under, should work a treat hopefully.

Anything in that line you want sent out, let me know. As long as it is not too heavy I dont mind.

In fact, I was clearing out some one of my sheds at the weekend and came accross a load of course tackle I had forgotten all about. Among it are some drennan bung type floats and quite a few wagglers. If you want to Pm me an addy, I could post em out to you as an early xmas presy.

LoL. Mate, if British rail were still around i know a few commuters who would be very happy.

Just PM me if you think of anything.