Whakatane Info
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Topic: Whakatane Info
Posted By: BuiltToFish
Subject: Whakatane Info
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 11:31am
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Hey Guys, Headed across to the East Coast for the w/e to fish the Surtees owners comp. Have not fished out of Whakatane before so am going in a little blind. Any advice of where is fishing well, what sort of depths the fish are in and any other advice or local knowledge that you'd like to offer would be much appreciated! Happy to go near or wide and the forecast is looking pretty sharp so just about anywhere is an option... Would be happy to shout a few beers even! Thanks team, Ben ------------- It's better to be lucky than good! http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Donald Duck
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 11:47am
| PM Biggear Ben, get his number and get him onside... then you're home and hosed. |
Posted By: Tzer
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 11:57am
| We will be over there for the comp keep eye out for us Ben, hey Beagle hope to catch up with stu tomorrow sometime and raid his gps. |
Posted By: Donald Duck
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 12:16pm
Be careful mate, I'd rather be caught making a pass at his Mrs than raiding his GPS! |
Tzer wrote:Posted By: Muzzfishing
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 4:39pm
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Hi Surtees Had not read your post check these against Biggear,s Whakatane Eastern BOP,
VHF Ch 80 Matata
37-49.71S 176-44.28E Medium foul bottom fish /strayline The paddock
37-52.47S 176-48.85E Sand with scattered papa rock Tasman reef
37-50.650S 176-50.650E Rough foul
with Exposed rocks at L/ tide The Middle
37-49.930S 176-54.410E Lge area East of Raus Med foul Boulder Bank
37-51.694S 176-57.704E SW corner of Whale Bubbles
37-51.958S 176-58.466E Popular
Tarakihi & Snapper spot. Goldfish Bowl 37-50.227S 176-53.802E
hole ½ m East of Lizard Isl watch for Rks Waiotahi Rock 37-57.708S 177-11.826E anchor 50m away from rock Ten Mile Reef
37-47.800S 177-03.800E 10miles from Whakatane Roys Reef
37-38.031S 177-00.405E 18 miles
NNW of Kohi point all species can be found here Depth 125m- 150m. Snapper,
Tarakihi, Tuna and Marlin. Lance,s
King fish spot 37-52.927S 177-05.475E use flasher rigs and small baits No Guarantees ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> A Good Skipper Keeps the water on the outside of the boat.
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Posted By: Murph
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 6:50pm
| There should be snapper anywhere along the coast, 20 metres is a good place to start looking, anchor up and burley to bring them to you or drift with soft baits. The Rurimas are a huge patch of foul, just to the east of there in around 35 metres can produce good tarakihi, you need to find them on the sounder and anchor on top of them. Head out wide to the trench and you can find big tarakihi and the odd Hapuka and nice kingy. |
Posted By: Uhunter
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 11:12am
| Fishing the Surtees this weekend, might see you guys out there, weather looks good. |
Posted By: Falco
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 11:18am
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Yeah it sure does Nath,might be down there too but not in the comp.
Did I mentioned we bagged out on fat snapper on the sunday after you came out with us?  ------------- as dead as dead is |
Posted By: Uhunter
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 11:40am
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The motor all good? Give us a call on the VHF might be out near you one of the days. Can't read your second line
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Posted By: BuiltToFish
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 2:04pm
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Cheers Muzz and Murph! That will give us something to start with. See you for a beer over the w/e.
------------- It's better to be lucky than good! http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Murph
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 9:11pm
| We fished off the Tarawera today and had no problem filling our bin with snaps. No monsters but there were plenty of nice eaters in the 35cm+ size. |
Posted By: Muzzfishing
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2010 at 9:44pm
Hi Murph fished on the Friday before Surtees comp near Thornton river entrance in 17m of water caught Snaps 30-40cm lots of Kawahai and 9.5kg Kingi 90cm long. Saturday morning weather forecast 5 knots variable got to the ramp at 6.15 am. headed to the Raus in search of some BIG Snaps unfortunately could catch any thing over 45cm never mind always Sunday, weighed a couple of Snaps and a couple of Kawahai as there is an average weight prize for Snapper. Sunday another awesome day to be on the water forecast 5knots Variable in the morning 10knots in afternoon. Bar flat as Karapiro Lake This time we went in the other direction down to Ohope in 37m of water, close to a spot I posted on here, first drop my father hooked a Kingi before I had even put the anchor down. We ended up catching 5 x Kingies on that spot 4 released around 70-75cm kept one at 84cm Snapper were a bit slow in between bites and not much bigger than Saturdays efforts, more Kawahai but no big ones.   You can see how rough it was. Had a great time always keen to fish down Whakatane as you never know what you might catch. ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> A Good Skipper Keeps the water on the outside of the boat.
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Posted By: Murph
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 6:08am
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Good one! We went out on Sunday too. Trolled lures out to the trench and then had a fish out there. Water temp was still as high as 20.5 and we came across a couple of huge work ups so there is every chance that there could still be some game fish about. At the trench we scored a bunch of nice fat Tarakihi and I jigged up a couple of kingies, one was 14 KG and the other was 16.5 KG. I'm glad you had a good time in Whakatane, give me a call if you are down these ways again. |
Posted By: smelli
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2014 at 6:18pm
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Anyone know the GPS marks for a spot called "the vents" or similar?? |
Posted By: wayno
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2014 at 8:20pm
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Think I still have a mark for the vents on my GPS, will update in the morning ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> To be old and wise you must first be young and stupid. |
Posted By: smelli
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2014 at 8:44pm
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Posted By: wayno
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2014 at 10:05am
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The mark I have is 37.41.296 S 177.07.273 E Approx depth 185-190m The "Vents" is a pretty big area but those numbers will get you out there, plenty of Terakihi caught at that spot last time out ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> To be old and wise you must first be young and stupid. |
Posted By: smelli
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2014 at 10:10am
Sweet as and thnx for your efforts Wayne.. Dazz |
Posted By: Uncle
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2014 at 10:29am
You better be looking for an electric reel smelli~~that's a lot of winding
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Posted By: smelli
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2014 at 10:34am
Yup sure is Uncle ... 
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Posted By: E-Fish'n-C
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2014 at 12:45pm
Here are the GPS locations that I have for different vents out of Whakatane.
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Posted By: smelli
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2014 at 12:54pm
Sweet thnx mate... 
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Posted By: HugoMaclean
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2014 at 9:32pm
| Make sure you dont leave anything valuable in you car. My landcruiser got done over in Whakatane last weekend. |