Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

that knot looks very much like what we use to join mono onto a fly line...never had one let go and yes they bite into plastic cover really well. if worried you could always loop wire back onto itself and twist it off to form a loop... sort of another hook eye...

Ohiwa Harbour produced the goods again,

With an evening low tide last night it was off to a spot on the channel edge to target the last of the outgoing tide and slack water tide into the cool of the evening. A prefect night of no wind, clear skys with a sunset transitioning to banging stars and stillness of bugger all noise of civilisation.

The dog enjoyed her run and the snapper went 45cm and made a great mothers-day lunch along with the kahawai, both been hot smoked over manuka chips with sourdough bread buns and plenty of butter....

@Fat belly Dog never had much luck in the harbor.Buy the looks of that I'm obviously doing something wrong

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@hunter Al.7mm08 I have had plenty of fish-less sessions in there too..

I think its more this time of the year or even the shit weather /large swell last few weeks. Been a few reports of good fish the last couple of weeks, I have also gone to 2 bar-o hooks fishing a ledger rig rather than a running or pulley rig. Small baits and fresh if I can catch a mackerel or skippy or small kahawai. I have been having best luck on a bait runner set to just hold in the current, the bigger snapper seem to pick and run and with the small baits and 2-bar-o s are helping, funny thing is I am not catching many undersized snapper at the moment with this set up.

I tend to target Low tide incoming tides as spot i fish you walk out to the channel edge, but I think either change of tide change of light would produce.

Cheers FBD

I am going to unlock one more new fish before I leave here.

Had a great day out off Ohiwa Fishing from a boat today, decided I would fish a 20 gram micro slow jig first up while the rest of the boys on the boat fished bait. I had a ball and caught a heap of snapper with my best going 68cm, no photos as I wanted to get it back in the water after a great fight on the light jigging rod. Caught a Kingfish just under 70cm and a few rats taking the jig on a fast retrieve along with a few Kahawai. Non stop action on snapper in the 28-32 cm range went back and picked up a bonus gurnard and trevally. Hard to get the jig past the blue mackerel schools on a fast drop but when I did it was taken on the bottom or close too. Great fun.

The big 68cm Snapper was caught after catching a smaller snapper off the bottom, winding it up but dropping the small one about 10m off the bottom, I paused to say F*%K all and just got smashed by the big boy "Fish On!!!!", great fight, long runs had the 4000 reel screaming and a healthy bend in the 6-10kg rod.

Havent fished micro slow jigs before but I think I will be going forward. My last fish up here in BOP before heading down to Nelson for a few months, tempted to stay for the fishing now.... Keen to bring the rods and the jigs down south to see if I can get into a few winter Gurnard, cudda and spiky dogs....

the pink jig strikes again.
Great fun,little jigs on light gear.
and very effective.
Gave up using bait years ago, except for nostalgia

Microjigs are bloody lethal!

If do`t have sea sick, I will buy a nice boat or yacht, and live on it.

Originally Posted by Fat belly Dog

Had a great day out off Ohiwa Fishing from a boat today, decided I would fish a 20 gram micro slow jig first up while the rest of the boys on the boat fished bait. I had a ball and caught a heap of snapper with my best going 68cm, no photos as I wanted to get it back in the water after a great fight on the light jigging rod. Caught a Kingfish just under 70cm and a few rats taking the jig on a fast retrieve along with a few Kahawai. Non stop action on snapper in the 28-32 cm range went back and picked up a bonus gurnard and trevally. Hard to get the jig past the blue mackerel schools on a fast drop but when I did it was taken on the bottom or close too. Great fun.

The big 68cm Snapper was caught after catching a smaller snapper off the bottom, winding it up but dropping the small one about 10m off the bottom, I paused to say F*%K all and just got smashed by the big boy "Fish On!!!!", great fight, long runs had the 4000 reel screaming and a healthy bend in the 6-10kg rod.

Havent fished micro slow jigs before but I think I will be going forward. My last fish up here in BOP before heading down to Nelson for a few months, tempted to stay for the fishing now.... Keen to bring the rods and the jigs down south to see if I can get into a few winter Gurnard, cudda and spiky dogs....

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Bring all the shiny shit you’ve got, the southern salefish are hungry…

All jokes aside ..get here quick , our snapper season seems to be hanging on by it finger tips …cannot wait to get out into the tide chasing flounder ..

I’m feeling a trip to okiwi should be organised, so let me know when you touch down , we’ll get @veitnamcam home from sea , @Pengy down from his roost , and roster @ROKTOY a weekend off , @Shearer has all sorts of gear to feed to the fishing gods, @kukuwai and lads are fishermen of great ability , @madjon loves a feed of mussels , @mikee can have a weekend off the birds …so that’s a start …the rest of the rat bags can fill the gaps ..

Let’s say Friday - Sunday in a couple of weeks time allowing for VC to be home from fishing to go fishing.

I can book a batch , cheap rates but it’s a bit rough ..

Ferry is booked for two weeks time 10th June. Just packing to see what can fit in back of the ute.
Dog, fishing and hunting gear. Tick.

Rest will squeeze in.

Originally Posted by Black Rabbit

I am going to unlock one more new fish before I leave here.

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Please what species is that fish?

Well I thought Dad had gone bat shit crazy when he wanted to take the boat out in the rain this morning. Surely too late for snapper I thought....

Well I was wrong....the old boy was right again



Didn't bother with a long line which was lucky as we had to weed through a fair amount of spiky dogs and barracuda.

It was worth it for sure as ended up with a couple of snaps and some rather big kahawai .



So there you go @Fat belly Dog there are still a few fish worth catching in the bay

Depth 19m for anyone who might be interested !
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Thanks Kukuwai,

Nice looking Kahawai there, do they hang around all year and chase whitebait up the river mouths when they start to run?

The guy who I having been going out fishing with on his boat went again yesterday with another group and they had boat limit of snapper in 1.5 hours and two kingfish well over 75. After a slow start to the season due to rain and wind, he thinks its the best snapper fishing in the Bay of Plenty for the last few years, looks like its the same down your way too.

Cheers FBD

They usually don't hang around in the inner tasman bay over winter. I think the water just gets too cold for them. Can be found up by durville etc where the water temp doesn't vary as much.

Also at the top of the west coast chasing white bait into the rivers (ie patarau, anatori etc) It can be excellant fishing even just off the beach over there in winter.

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