Bluff
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: Landbased & Surfcasting
Forum Description: From rocks or beaches, here's the place for the landbased fishos to share information
URL: https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=58178
Printed Date: 29 Jan 2026 at 9:27pm
Topic: Bluff
Posted By: Mike the spike
Subject: Bluff
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2010 at 11:03am
| Hi there,just wanted to know where to fish in Bluff(from shore),South Island |
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Posted By: Mike the spike
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2010 at 12:06pm
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Posted By: z_si
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2010 at 2:49pm
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I've only fished off the wharf but you can get legal blue cod there. Also get a lot of baby tarakihi but wouldn't expect the bigger ones to be around. Heard of trumpeter, moki, blue cod, red cod, warehou, gurnard, skate, stingrays, conger eels, barracouta and various sharks there. A guy also told me they get crays around the pilons of the wharf. Apparently there's quite a few spots off the rocks around there where you can get moki and trumpeter as well but normally a lot of kelp and snags to get past. For bait good old squid works well for a lot of different species including the blue cod and trumpeter etc but the stingrays love it and there's some big ones out there probably up to 200kg. For moki crayfish or shellfish baits are meant to be good but also prawns you can buy at the supermarket work |
Posted By: Mike the spike
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2010 at 2:54pm
| wow thanx that does actualy help alot bcoz i thought id only find dogs there,so will nuclear chickens be gud?wheres the warf? |
Posted By: z_si
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2010 at 2:58pm
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Never used softbaits so got no idea really. You'll catch something if you put some time in just fishing a ledger trace with a bit of squid or something for bait. There's a few wharfes I think you can fish, both you can drive your car onto. They also get salmon off the wharfes. |
Posted By: z_si
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2010 at 3:02pm
 Those two places marked on there is I think where I fished, the first spot being the better one. |
Posted By: Mike the spike
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2010 at 3:42pm
| thanx im going tomorow so ill try them,ill reply with the results. |
Posted By: fatjimmy
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2010 at 10:30am
| sweet.. bound to be troughy blue cod. |
Posted By: Mike the spike
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2010 at 11:25am
| how many can i keep? |
Posted By: Mike the spike
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2010 at 11:00pm
| i got nothing but i did get 7 Paua |
Posted By: Kiwis fly
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2014 at 8:25pm
| I could have told you not to waste your time fishing off the wharf in bluff or even off the rocks as all the good fish are only caught by boat so get yourself a Frewza F14 then you will catch the good stuff...:-) Lol |
Posted By: chad
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2014 at 8:59pm
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Not completely true, some good fish get taken off the wharf. The salmon are impressive! ------------- https://www.facebook.com/nzsurfcasting |
Posted By: Kiwis fly
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2014 at 9:47pm
| Really? Wow.....I've ever only seen dog fish or a mongrel fish which I don't know the name of though they are a pest |
Posted By: Southern_Jez
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2014 at 7:51am
| one of my fishing buddies has caught gurnard from the wharf ... i prefer getting out on the boat myself |
Posted By: Ontheflynz
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2024 at 10:05am
| Does anyone know if the fishing is any good at the bluff wharf now days? Thanks |