softbaiting petone wharf?
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Topic: softbaiting petone wharf?
Posted By: kiwifisho11
Subject: softbaiting petone wharf?
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 10:58pm
| pretty keen to drop a softbait down just after dark at petone wharf, mainly for JDs.. Any chance i could be lucky? |
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Posted By: scuzzymoto
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 11:22pm
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try Point Howard dude big fish down deep,also off Petone there are some big stargazers ------------- "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled” Mark Twain |
Posted By: kiwifisho11
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2010 at 2:44pm
| Burley the **** out off it? or fine just poping down and jigging around for about an hour? |
Posted By: JordanM
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2010 at 4:24pm
as a number of people have said on here, BURLEY BURLEy BURLEY.. otherwise theres no incentive for the baitfish to come there, and no baitfish = no keepers.. so use a bread+water+fish oil, slurry and spoon in.. great for herring and piper, and the bigger fish love to see them eating and causing a comotion, then easy peasy you stick your softie down and boom, your on..  ------------- "size doesnt matter" tell that to the fisheries! |
Posted By: kiwifisho11
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2010 at 4:24pm
| Ahh i dont mean softbaiting in a berley trail just softbaiting around the wharf from time to time.. not spending enough time to make a nice trail to attract bigger fish just target fish already feeding around the poles... a quick fishing fix :) |
Posted By: JordanM
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2010 at 4:33pm
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oh ok, go for it mate, the good thing about softies is that you can fish a whole lot of water.. and when youve had enough pack up and walk a couple hundred m down and try there.. so try from side to side on the wharf, and the good thing is the people already there fishing with smelly bait, is the fish are probly already there.. ------------- "size doesnt matter" tell that to the fisheries! |
Posted By: kiwifisho11
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2010 at 7:41pm
| Thanks jordan :) true, and just during change of light all the fish .. should.. be coming in to feed, will let you know if i have luck |
Posted By: Big H
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2010 at 8:55pm
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[QUOTE=jordanM]as a number of people have said on here, BURLEY BURLEy BURLEY.. otherwise theres no incentive for the baitfish to come there, and no baitfish = no keepers.. so use a bread+water+fish oil, slurry and spoon in.. great for herring and piper, and the bigger fish love to see them eating and causing a comotion, then easy peasy you stick your softie down and boom, your on.. [/QUOTE
the shelter provided by the wharf and the food on the piles is the berely trail...
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Posted By: Big H
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2010 at 8:57pm
| never seen a jd off petone but you mighthave some luck with ky or gurnad and if you're real lucky a snap in summer |
Posted By: scuzzymoto
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2010 at 9:01pm
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seen some big Kings off there in summer months, not that often,head to Pt Howard for the JD, have found the Petone wharf pretty baron except for bait fish ------------- "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled” Mark Twain |
Posted By: kiwifisho11
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2010 at 7:41pm
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Yeah pt Howard will be the go when i get round to it, deeper as you said. Ive notice a lot of people fish there is anything decent actually caught off there? Also thanks for the responses :) |
Posted By: JordanM
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2010 at 7:57pm
alot of people tackle the wharfs for spotties.. i see alot of the asian community particularly fishing for spotties, i dont know if they eat them or what, but they leave with a bucket load of very small spotties..  ------------- "size doesnt matter" tell that to the fisheries! |
Posted By: kiwifisho11
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2010 at 11:34am
| Lmao. Score >.> |
Posted By: jaypeegee
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2010 at 8:23pm
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I watched an older gentleman do this at miramar wharf.
My son was fascinated with his process.
Using a cage of some sort with crushed shellfish suspended with a rope.
Sat on his car. snoozed for 20 mins. A quick haul up and empty the results into a bucket
He had a bucketful of spottys swimming round. Rinse and repeat.
I said g'day and asked him, Thinking they were intended for bait
In his word they were good eating. very sweet flesh. Lots of small bones tho. No good for kids
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Posted By: clarky356
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 5:35pm
| is there much rocks around the petone wharf, could i get i electric kontiki out from the shore? |
Posted By: Kiwicaster
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 8:31pm
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I have seen both kites and electric kontikis being launched off the beach before but its a popular beach and can have a lot of swimmers kayakers jet skis etc on it as well . So you will need to pick your days carefully .
------------- A recent survey has revealed that only one in seven dwarfs are happy. |