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Autumn fishing is producing good kingfish
The gulf is producing some really nice kingfish at the moment. We will often spend a couple of hours each trip getting livies and deploying these and jigs on likely spots holding the green torpedoes. Some of these spots producing are the Coromandel barges, Channel Island and just in and amongst the bait! The snapper fishing is also great but not as many bigger fish like last year yet. We ...
Well I have been away for a couple of months and it looks like I missed all the bad weather (although the wind looks like it is going to be with us all spring).
It sounds like the fishing has been good when people could get out and the workups never stopped throughout winter. There have been some amazing workups down in the firth as the bait gets trapped down there ...
Still lots of anchovies and small pilchards in the Gulf
There is a huge area of bait (anchovy and small pilchards) sitting about 2nm-4nm North Nor-east of gannet rock off the bottom end of Waiheke. What is surprising, is the dolphins haven’ found it yet (or as of Tuesday last week). We have been fishing the area for about a week and waiting patiently for the mammals to arrive and round it up. As the bait is widely dispersed and ...
After waiting and waiting and waiting, finally the pilchard workups have started in the gulf. There has been a huge drop in temperature which I am sure you have noticed over the last few days. This has dropped the water temp as well and it is around 16-17 degrees now (was 20 last week). This drop in temperature means more food comes in and all the predators follow.
Yesterday we found ...
These SE winds seem to have slowed things down a bit but if you fish the afternoon bite they seem to come on again with an aggressive feeding frenzy! We have been heading to the top of Coromandel and the Colville channel area where the snapper seem to be in abundance at the moment. We are fishing 42-47 mtr areas and found a huge amount of snapper on a rise ...
The fishing has been strange and I believe the season is one to one and a half months behind. The sea temp is still around 20 degrees which means the fishing is good in close and out wide, but the fish out wide have been smaller than you would expect at this time of year. The good new is that this is changing and we can expect to see the ...