BOP Motiti Island
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Printed Date: 14 Jun 2026 at 8:43am
Topic: BOP Motiti Island
Posted By: MattG
Subject: BOP Motiti Island
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2010 at 8:35am
Zoomed out to motitit last night about 8pm, came home about 10pm , 1/2m swell & some chop on way out then it died down while we were anchored off the knoll. reeled in 6 35cm snappers plus a couple trevs, Also a 1m cuda which took two of our hooks at once, for that we gave him some extra gills and sent him home. Then i came across this bad boy at 3.9kg - my personal biggest fish ever!.  |
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Posted By: Phishpula
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2010 at 8:39am
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Top stuff there Matt. Noting like a fresh feed of snaps. What bait were you using out of interest? ------------- Turtle free since 2012 |
Posted By: MattG
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2010 at 8:41am
| Bonito exclusively, had some burly running too - have a nice supply of them from last season. |
Posted By: unlimited
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2010 at 11:17am
hey Matt, where abouts at Motiti did you go  ------------- keeping it reel |
Posted By: Wide Load
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2010 at 1:31pm
| It's only a matter of time until you catch a 20lber if you are fishing the Knoll at dusk. |
Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2010 at 1:39pm
Well done Matt, you be now addicted to get them bigger and bigger ------------- "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau |
Posted By: MattG
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2010 at 9:29pm
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funny thing was I was not far off having a ralf due to a big beef and vegetable roll and it not agreeing with going to sea with me and decided we should catch just "one more" and go. I was fishing off the southern end of Motiti on what is called the knoll - a small kelp reef which is about 3m deep & about 1km long maybe, we just park beside it in about 6m and fish onto it with no sinkers usually. I usually only fish change of light, but this time I went a bit later. I noted the water temp was about 16 degrees. We dropped the fish fillets off at the fish and chip shop this evening - fed 9 people and I gave away 1/2 of the rest this arvo to people that normally wouldn't be able to buy fish. (damn 45 bucks a kilo at countdown now for snapper ATM) |
Posted By: andy2fish
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2010 at 12:39am
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Nice one Matt hope to fish around there when I get back. Need to get my PB snapper up a few sizes as its only 43cm
------------- If only I could fly |
Posted By: Fishb8
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2010 at 10:55am
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Well done!!
$45!! F###en dear!! $32 in Hammy! ------------- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken |