Have tried, have failed. Great for eels

try Cornwall park. Lots of cow pats there. Never tried but worms should be good for flounder in the shallow bays in the muddy.

smudge wrote: Have tried, have failed. Great for eels

The more natural the bait, the better the bait.

Hi cirrus, i can assure you that there are still an abundance of fish in hk. it's just you needed the exact right gear and know the spots perfectly well. as hk is over-fished (both commercially and recreationally), fishes are smart and very easily spooked.


Try to go to the east side of hk island mate. i tried the west many times and all we can get (we're taking about the whole charter of fishos) are baby scads (they look like small yellowtails but tails not yellow).


But we're on the hk island, so we have good waters all around us. Landbased i like to go to the western Victoria harbour to get various types of grouper (they aren't big, tiny if a NZer see them, but 2 or 3 are good for a meal). i also like to try my luck on the south area, the isolated beaches, ship wrecks, rocky area, the more remote the better. occasional amberjacks and seabeams can be found there on turbulent waters. as to the east, we usually hire those traditional hk fishing boats. This summer, just outside shek O beach area me and my gf once caught a 2.5kg hk grouper (it was her first fish, worth $3000hkd), 1kg stonefish (it feels literally like lifting a stone), some good wrasses, snappers, small GTs and tons of chicken grunts!

But most of the time I'm lazy so i just walk down to the local wharf to fish for grey mulets at night. excellent fish they fight well on thin lines...hours of fun with gf fishing there plus i get to make all my fellow fishos (who are all men) jealous

Having experienced fishing in two jurisdictions I realised that there are much less species of fish in nz, but our fish are much larger and easier to catch than the ones you would get in hk.

ycha223 wrote: Anyone tried? It worked awesome overseas, but not sure where you can buy live worms here in NZ...probably have to dig up your own.

Go ask at your local garden centre, surely they must have a source for things like worm farms, etc.

I used blood worms in Aussie a lot.

I always bought mine from a local tackle shop but you can buy what they call "yabbie pumps" over there and just look for the worm holes at low tide then suck em' up with your yabbie pump.

The pumps just looked like an over sized push bike pump,,but different.

I've always thought the local worms would work well here,but so does Mullet an Skippie an Squid an yellow tail an Kahawai an tua tua an pipis an mussles an softbaits an jigs an you really gonna need a bigger truck mate,,,,,so I've never got around to trying them yet.

Scooter wrote: I've always thought the local worms would work well here,but so does Mullet an Skippie an Squid an yellow tail an Kahawai an tua tua an pipis an mussles an softbaits an jigs an you really gonna need a bigger truck mate,,,,,so I've never got around to trying them yet.