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Now that three flies are allowed for jigging, this approach can also be adopted when harling. The pins off the Aldermen Islands are reported to be holding large numbers of kingfish, with some specimens over the 30kg mark.įreshwater Trout fishing in the Rotorua lakes was excellent over the weekend, and early morning harling is best on the lakes.
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Tauranga Harbour is reported also to be full of whitebait.įishing off beaches like Waihi Beach is also picking up, with torpedoes producing well from the shore and setting a long-line on 20 metres of water is working better than bait fishing with rods. At Tauranga people are waiting for fish to move into the harbour, but there are kingfish over the offshore reefs and snapper in 15-20 metres of water off the beaches and still plenty of gurnard on the sand. Snapper up to 15 kilos have been caught like this in the past year while fishing work-ups in the Firth. Just continuing to wind the line will secure the hook-up, and they catch fish. Unlike soft plastics, a strike is not needed.
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The line is wound in very slowly and when a fish bites, the action does not change. While metal jigs and soft baits are worked continuously with the rod, the inchukus are dropped to the bottom and then barely moved. The inchuku jig, which is a metal jig with a plastic squid-type lure with small assist hooks on the end, are proving popular with more anglers. Other tricks are securing bait and sinker together in a ball wrapped in bathroom tissue hoping it will get to the seabed before the tissue disintegrates and releases the gear.Īnother solution is to use light wire trace and keep a bunch of 'couta for bait and berley. Some use black swivels or no swivels and heavy sinkers to speed the terminal bits through the mid-water. People have different ways of dealing with the problem. Work-ups are attracting boats everywhere from the Coromandel township side of the Firth of Thames to Kawau Island. The spawning ritual sees large numbers of fish rise to the surface at night as they come together in a phenomenon which has been rarely witnessed.įishing around Little Barrier Island has also improved and hapuka are being hooked on the outside of Great Barrier Island at about 130 metres. It has huge areas of flat seabed of 20-30 metres deep. When it reaches 18C the mating starts, and takes place in water about 20 metres deep which is why the Hauraki Gulf is such a good environment for the fish. Snapper are serial spawners, which means they may spawn several times over the summer, and the activity is sparked by water temperature. They fill up on squid which helps their metabolism produce the milt which fertilises the females' eggs. Most of the snapper in close are males preparing for spawning next month. The channels at Crusoe Rock have started fishing well, and squid is the top bait. Live baits like mackerel fished under a balloon, or slow trolling a live kahawai, will attract these magnificent fish, then it is a question of coaxing the hooked king away from the reef to deeper water before it wraps the line around a rock. The reef at Maria Rock is holding kingfish, and some good specimens have been taken in the past week.