Can you Kayak Fish in Winter?
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
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Printed Date: 19 Jun 2026 at 8:30pm
Topic: Can you Kayak Fish in Winter?
Posted By: ENP
Subject: Can you Kayak Fish in Winter?
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2010 at 6:26pm
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How many km offshore do you need to go in winter in order to catch fish? (I live on East Coast Bays, Auckland)
Can you catch any fish in the winter in a kayak? Or is it only a summer time thing?
Thanks.
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Posted By: Phishpula
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2010 at 7:20pm
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Nah fish stop eating from April 1st until October 29th then its all on. ------------- Turtle free since 2012 |
Posted By: piwikiwi
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2010 at 7:50pm
| Phish is been a little sarcastic. Winter fishing is awesome better than november to january in my opinion. Here in the BOP its a good time to fish. Cant speak for up where you are. |
Posted By: Naki man
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2010 at 8:07pm
You need one of these lures for the fish you catch up your way  ------------- The solution to any problem - work, money, love, whatever - is to go fishing - the worse the problem the longer the fishing trip should be. "I have a lot of very large problems" |
Posted By: Rainbow
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2010 at 8:12pm
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Sure can. Just dress for the cold and wet. You will probably do better with natural bait and berley and by targetting reefs.
Rainbow
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Posted By: ENP
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2010 at 8:42pm
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Naki man wrote:Posted By: Muppet
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2010 at 9:24pm
I live on the shore and I know you can get good snapper in close around the reefs but really never gave it a good crack. I must admit to being a bit of a winter hibernater TBH and I don't really like making my kayak dirty with stinkbait and berley which is best in winter, although softies will work.
Had a lot of success off the rocks in winter though up the coast and that can be applied to yak fishing.
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Posted By: toaroa
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 11:43am
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I mostly hibernate, but what I do catch in (Auckland) winters is usually large, so a trip out is worth it. Also, kayak fishing doesn't have to be saltwater - I've had some great winter trips for trout to those central NI lakes and larger (slower) rivers that allow winter trolling |