Thread: Save our Tarakihi

Originally Posted by BeeMan

Hey @Gibo I've given you the spot.

I can see whale but thats a pretty large area to pinpoint

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

Used to dive the big ground off the eastern end and there were layers of them there. However over the last 25 years fewer and fewer year by year. Now you don't swim down through them anymore by the drop off and you only see a scattering.

I can't be bothered fishing in close anymore because of the small size and reduced numbers

Runnn ya cursor onto the pic @Gibo

Originally Posted by BeeMan

Runnn ya cursor onto the pic @Gibo

Too far away mate

Strangely on the inshore (<7 km off shore) coast north of Dunedin when fishing for blue cod I seem to be catching increasing numbers of tarakihi for unknown reasons, last time out I got 11 I just fish a ledger rig with squid, often I use cheap 6/0 marine deals flasher rigs also baited with a bit of squid, so not really targeting them with shellfish baits, generally they aren't much over the limit size-wise so I'd rather catch a decent cod or trumpeter