If you're out Petone ways you might want to try that car bridge (that everyone fishes off) or Petone wharf.

People tend to use the float method off of the bridge fishing for KY.  Ballon as a float with ledger rig (sinker on the bottom) use whole of half pillies for bait.  I use 4/0 strike hooks for that setup usually.  It can be a bit of a challenge to get KY up the bridge so if possible walk it to the river bank edge and get someone else to land it (run down to the river) from the river bank.

Another nice fishing spot is Evans Bay infront of the NIWA building.  You can park up and there's rod holders in-build into the fence along there. Comfy as for kids etc or Miramar Wharf is ok too although you have to park at the entrance to the wharf now-a-days and walk your gears onto the wharf.

Cheers, we wandered down to Petone wharf in the end, met a few interesting characters but the fishing was dead - we saw something reasonably big hanging around under the lights but no-one was getting any bites. Hopefully we'll get the boat out for a sail this weekend, troll for Kahawai, maybe fish at Ward Island.