Thread: Save our Tarakihi

Have a read or a watch and sign the petition.
The Minister needs to know that more than commercial fishers matter.

https://www.legasea.co.nz/tarakihi/

Pretty thin in our waters these days. Used to get onto them and it would be two at a time for a few hours. Saturday we got 3 over about 4 hours.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Pretty thin in our waters these days. Used to get onto them and it would be two at a time for a few hours. Saturday we got 3 over about 4 hours.

Yea they used to be the reliable winter catch here but I cant remember the last time I even caught one!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Yea they used to be the reliable winter catch here but I cant remember the last time I even caught one!

Yeah the old bottom nets smash the structures to bits and they take ages to bounce back. We used to have about 12 really good Terakihi spots, guaranteed a good catch every time. Don't think we even have one reliable spot anymore

We can limit out on them in about 1/2 hr in couple spots we fish.
2-3kg only being kept


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Originally Posted by Spanners

We can limit out on them in about 1/2 hr in couple spots we fish.
2-3kg only being kept


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Those are huge terakihi man!! Are they King Teras?

Originally Posted by Spanners

We can limit out on them in about 1/2 hr in couple spots we fish.
2-3kg only being kept


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Welly/the straight still seems to fish well for them and the southern west coast, I was on a charter a couple of weeks ago around top of durvil/stephens and despite 6-8 lines in the water with 2 baits each pretty much all the time not one Tarakihi was landed!!!!

While the link I posted is not very specific I believe the petition is for areas TAR1 and TAR2

Plenty of Tarakihi around here. @Gibo stop looking for bills.

They aint the biggest, but the sweetest tasting, get a limit in a couple of hours.

Well the waters we call the middle ground from Tga heading out to Motiti sure aren’t what they used to be

Originally Posted by Gibo

Well the waters we call the middle ground from Tga heading out to Motiti sure aren’t what they used to be

Its ok when his area is overfished we will just say it is all good here bro

Originally Posted by BeeMan

They aint the biggest, but the sweetest tasting, get a limit in a couple of hours.

You can get 80 Tarakihi in a couple of hours?

I don't agree with that VC, but really ask yourself 95% commercial 5% recreational, I get out once a month if I'm lucky. Thump MPI .

Hey @Gibo I've given you the spot.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Those are huge terakihi man!! Are they King Teras?

Dunno.... big Tiks! Lol
Weights are legit as we were at a contest and weighed the big ones each day


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