Thread: Small boat fishing Paihia

The family is off to Paihia for a week over new years and I was planning on taking the boat.

Boat is a Mac360 and the main question/advice I'm after is safe places to launch and fish around the area. Goes without saying I'm not after spot x, just safe areas for small boat launching and fishing.

Cheers

Launch at Waitangi. Got to be early to get a parking spot this time of year. Good fishing around Roberton Island, middle foul and the nine pin


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It's a long way to the Nine Pin in a Mac360. On the seaward side of Roberton & the other islands is good & gives you the option to nip in behind the islands if the wind gets up. Around the Blacks Rocks or Capstan Rock is another option. Watch out if you get wind against tide it can get very choppy for a small boat coming around Tapeka Point. Make sure you know the rules for dolphins in the Bay, there's low speed zones & DOC will be out enforcing them.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-re.../restrictions/

Cheers guys, have heard Brampton shoal is also worth a look? Not too far in good conditions either.