I'd bet my house that one never had milky flesh Kitno. Bloody good looking fish.

My grandson has been nagging me to take him fishing so Saturday made a plan to target Tarakihi out of Town Point its he enjoys that, bad call as wrong time of year and didnt find one. One highlight was he caught a Porae, new specues for him and pretty rare catch, got a few snapper so got a feed or two.
By the way check the Kaituna bar cam, the channel is hard left, they swung the camera today but before that the cam was beach with no river showing. Must all the big storms of late.

Part 2 of this post the grandson and I took our dinghy out in entrance today drifting with sofrbaits and had a much better day. Kept 10 snapper 40 to 50 cm so the boy has now had a good fishing fix.

The moral of the story is fish your feet first.

Before cam got adjusted, wheres Kaitune river

A good lesson Greg.

Not very busy out there Uncle which is a real bonus this time of the year and only ten trailers at Pilot Bay at 11.00am.

0.7m deep Kitno, gotta love that, the shallower you can catch snapper the better.
You would have motor tilted up to get there.

That's correct Kitno. Although if you want too, you can offset it to water line in the sounder settings. I don't do that because, I'd rather know how much water is under the boat.

Shot along matakhana yesterday morning, only a couple of other boats along past the triangle (perhaps they knew something??)   anyway, softbaited for  2.5 hours  had a couple of touches on the SB but didn't hook up to anything (strange, I'd usually land a number of fish on SB in this time with 3 people fishing)   picked up a few on dragged pillies....  Shot out to the 30m area a little before 10,  tried for turkeys but only small snapper so switched over to Slow pitch Jigs (80G Jigging master) and landed a number of nice pannies upto 48cm, heading in bang on midday with 14 snapper and a few kahawai onboard.  

Harbour was firing a few weekends back
Hard graft of late for me
Others having success?
Cheers
CN

2 weeks ago I went along papamoa, Slow pitch jigged and softbaited, got a couple of throw backs and a nice 15.5lb/73cm snapper on a jig.....  Not really much else to note.