Thread: Firth of Thames?

Any reports on how the firth has been shooting from gunboats this season?bit of a big mission from where I live but thinking about heading there once tides/wind cooperate,is it any good shooting there in the afternoon on a high tide or are mornings the go? Have12ft tinny t shoot n close In mangroves or can camo up the 4.6m Fyran and shoot further out in the open water if that’s the go?thinking about putting in at pikowai ramp. Thanks for any info.

from what Ive read about it,its a challenging day out.good luck.

There are NO mallards on the lake I shoot and figure it’s the only place left that might still have some birds.

If you are going to try that, make sure you have a good weather window.
Also take a fishing rod

Really wanted a shit weather window to keep the birds moving fom my research !!

well where im perched near the banks of the waihou i gotta say its been the quietest duck season ever normally we have the (shotgun) alarm going off every morning to wake us up and then not uncommon to hear it all day every day . the revised opening day being the exception . so there are either fuck all birds or the regular shooters here cant spare the time as the have to catch up for a month off work.......or they have had the will to go duckshooting bashed out of them by this govt ... i know a few ponds on farms have dried up i will ask our schoolboy worker how him and his old man got on

Sweet thanks..I though with the lack of water around at the moment the birds might be using the firth as a loafing area.

Dad backs onto the Piako river he says it was full of ducks more than he has seen on the Waihou which the old farm also backed onto.
Maybe there’s just not the habita there anymore to hold the numbers.

Will google earth the piako and take a look...turns out that’s the one I was looking at!!!ment to say I was putting in at pipiroa ramp not pikowai..doh!