Ladies Bay in Mission Bay

Hi out east auckland i just fish around point england its close and I've seen a few rat kingys and even some about 1 meter +  really close inshore when snapper are running its pretty good otherwise kahawai is the norm,also  i like whatipu, kaitarakehi, almost anywhere from green bay up towards whatipu  there are alot of good fishing spots i hear they are catching kings at french bay even..

hey seth..just read your rock fishin guide post.. i havent been and dont think i am fit enough to conquer it yet..but i wana take on the light-house.. do people park outside the actual main gate, then walk the length of the driveway before the downhill mission even begins??where is the track? or can people park within the light-house carpark.. a mate and i are contemplating an over-nighter

yeah we camped at the left hand of the cake last november,walked round from wattle.met roger the next day to inform him of 1 of his cows falling down the hill overnight,from right up top,right to the bottom!! it was messy! roger seems a good sort though.. from the cake we walked bout  a k and a half further to the left..into no mans land haha,pulled a couple of nice trevs out,and couple of carrots as well

my brother tried to con me into that venture about 6 years ago.. he is more unfit than i am.. his mrs told me it took him little over 3 hours to crawl back up,and he had been there 2 days for 1 semi decent snapper,and he looked like tom hanks in 'castaway" hahahaha

Seth wrote: silstar steve wrote: hey seth..just read your rock fishin guide post.. i havent been and dont think i am fit enough to conquer it yet..but i wana take on the light-house.. do people park outside the actual main gate, then walk the length of the driveway before the downhill mission even begins??where is the track? or can people park within the light-house carpark.. a mate and i are contemplating an over-nighter Im not sure if you would really want to overnight there bud, really exposed with the wind fair whipping though on any sort of westerly plus space is at a premium on the high tides.  Its seriously flat too so doesnt fish to well on the high. If you wanna do a an overnight would suggest walking to the blowholes instead as you will be out of the wind there and space to setup a tent/camp area for the night.  Just have a chat to the farmer that owns the land (he's located 1/3rd of the way between wattle and cake on the house up the hill, roger is his name) to make sure its ok with him just in case he has his cattle down there.

i was fishing there last week, it was an easterly wind direction, and rain was coming, we drove up past the lighthouse down the no exit road to where the big hill is, then walked straight down, then along a little more to the sand, it  took around 30 minutes to go down from the top, saw the corps of this dead cow there, got to the bottum, and headed to the point on the left at low tide, first cast hooked me into a baby snapper, then the tides cam in pretty quick and we were there around 20 minutes before having to leave(8:30pm) so we went to the right toward wattle bay and sat there for a few hours with very little bits until we thought we would start the walk up the hill(around 11pm) started ot wind in and i was hooked up, but it was only a eagle ray, i love my soft bait rod, it seems strong i managed to pull the ray right in to the beach on 30 pound braid. wished it was a snapper but o well, so after this we started our walk up the hill, got a 3rd of the way up and found lots of gorse so headed back down a bit then off to the right, then back to left, found some cow ruts so headed up those to the top of the hill, took us around an hour with around 20 2 minute rests, although it was alot easier than climbing up the higher angled hill. good and fun trip, but i wouldn't do it again without looking where i am going on the way down before dark. you could camp on the side of the hill where we walked up, not so much wind and gorse there for shelter , some stares(cattle) were in the paddock tho, so be careful they dnt fall on your tent whilst you are sleeping or something. i will be going back to this place sometime closer to the summer, but DEFENATELY NOT fishing it at high tide as it is a waste of time. hope this helps you guys and if you go, let me know how it goes.

use heavy sinkers - 6oz

shaneg wrote: Castor bay rocks floating baits at low tide - walkround out to rocks on left past break water -nice small ledge to be fished at low tide.

Yeah we were there a lil late so the tide was a bit high but will make sure to hit it early next time and get to the point there. Found there was a bit of weeds straight out the front and I think that when your at the point you'll be in front of them. Should be al gud!

Salty Bones Devonport wharf  fishing is best when the wind from N,NE or E, big wheel E,SW,, W         Harbour bridge E,SW,W ,NE, Harbour Bridge is really good on rainy days and stormy day is the best we caught heaps big size snapper