Family and I headed up to Otaki for a spot of shopping for wifey. Passing Puk bay with a very nice looking sea. I was pleasantly surprised, having seen it the previous day rough as gutts and wild as a wild thing. Heading back south from our trip passing the bay and was looking almost smooth! It was 4pm by this time and still had to get back to Upper Hutt, pack up fishing gear and yak and make it back to the bay with hours of daylight to fish in might be pushing it. What the heck. Let's do it! Made it to the bay by 6pm and on the water by 6:30pm. The sea was silky smooth by this stage and not the forecast 10kt NE winds.There were fish chasing fish on the surface everywhere the whole time i was there. Prospects were lookin good. Got to spot anchored / burleyed up and was around 5min and rod in holder was bent over big time. Felt decent but wasn't sure what it was. Didn't exactly feel like a Snapper but more sharkey but to my delight up pops a decent Snapper to start with 8lb 64cm model. Whoop! Stoked. Got another 3 @ 45cm and another 1 in the mid 30s. Plenty of Kahawai-kept 2 for the smoker. Hooked a couple of Barracuda that both launched themselves upwards towards the yak at a great rate of knots right at the end that got the heart rate going! Bait almost gone but Snapper still biting and very happy with my catch and a stunning evening to be out. Another amazing sunset on the west coast. Felt very blessed.

We'll done. Good haul in a short time. You are so right about making the most of any break in the weather! Btw where were you fishing?

Nice hauls Jules & kahawai guy!! Jellous as!

Nice hauls fellas!!!

Not a bad night out last night.
A bit rougher than expected but was still fishable. Started with 4
Snapper in quick succession but all were too small (biggest about 30cm). Then got a nice Trev shortly later a bigger snapper in the bag. Had some fun chasing dolphins around which came up right to the kayaks!! Tried to get them on film but a quick check over it I think I missed them in all the excitement.

Anchored up for sunset and got 2
Kingfish about 70cm and a few more snapper. Total of 4 snapper and a Trev in the bag. Gave one medium snapper away so he's not in the pic to a mate who sat 5m away getting a couple congers and no snaps, couldn't let him go home empty handed. THey other two boys with us got some gurnard each.

Biggest one being 53cm.



(Blame the sun for the bad pic below)

Cool Ants I was worried the weather might not hold for you guys. Terns and shearwaters were doing their thing outside sunshine bay this morning Kiwifred  I picked up a nice fat little kahawai and a mack amongst them, almost went home empty handed... couldn't catch any till i changed lures to a 18g glow/silver   Nice to stumble across that wearing my polarized glasses for the first time, I could watch the kahawai dash past a few times.   Seen some workups during the week just north of the ferries too.  Hadn't noticed any myself until this week, I love that stuff. 

was sitting down at Petone beach yesterday and saw a big workup of birds about 1km off the beach at the eastern end. was very tempted to go out but the wind was a tad blowy and it wouldnt have been very nice   lol

Nice work Jules, good to see you out there.

We took shelter in close so fishing wasn't quite as good. A few kahawai and a gurnard for me and my mate, and a snapper and 2 nice trevs for Rik.

Went back out yesterday,to what swellmap called a 3/10....yeah right!! Was more like a 10/10!

On the water about 8.30am and first drop - 2 snapper, 2 ore on the second and 3rd drops too, it was all on! However, they were quite small, 20-30cm one but with that many biting I knew bigger ones must be around so threw them all back.

Bigger ones did start appearing including one about 60cm which I decided to release as was still morning so saves having him in the bag a few hours.

Probably caught my limit of legal snapper twice over, I was releasing anything under 35cm plus the biggest one of the day. Also released about a dozen undersized ones.

Took 6 home as that was more than plenty for me and to give a bit to family too.

Smallest snapper in the pics is 35cm.

Nice mate sorry didn't realise it was you! That was possibly that 55cm snapper as was around that time I landed him. Had a couple big takes which spat the hook though and a couple big cudas as well at that time.

Very odd you didn't get snapper, a yak a couple hundred meters away from me got his limit in the morning while at the same time another couple guys on the other side of me just got kahawai and gurnard, maybe all the snaps were on the reef who knows of only taking certain baits (fresh kahawai done most of the damage for me)

Holy crap that was a good sized seven gill.  He was obviously attracted to the electric signals coming from your cam as well as the berley.