[JB]

JW and myself decided it was a grea tday to check out a few GPS marks I'd been given not far off Takapuna (Auckland) on Sunday. about a 1k paddle from launch and a very late start (10.30 on the water ). Paddled out, found the spot with some good sign on the bottom.
Out with the anchor and berley in the water. JW's first bait in while I was rigging up. Whack, his reel goes off. dropped the bait. Next whole pillie out for him and whack not 30 seconds later (on the drop). Nice bend in the rod and string being pulled for 30 seconds on the first run. a few more runs and then nothing. Had all the sign sof a nice snapper with the trace bite through.

Had a ledger rig ready to go and first bait (squid) got nailed before I could get the other rod rigged. In comes dinner with a 40cm snapper. Then put the strayline out with no weight and whole pillie. a couple of minute later in comes a 50cm snapper. A wee bit more action before the KY's (aussie salmon), so I took the opportunity to get a few for bait next weeks land based adventure.

Al quite for a while and then I had a slow run on my bait runner. Into gear and and deadweight before getting some line back. Couldn't pick this fish but ended up being a John Dory - nice just what the missus had ordered for dinner, and it was caught on a deadbait pillie???

nice day all around with the water temp up to 15.8c

 

[PoddyMullet]

Gotta be happy heading to the table JB 8)

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

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[JB]

you can get the jd's most of the year. They are actually more common than most people think its that you normally need live baits to target them and most people over here fish with dead baits

 

[Russ]

Huge effort JB

Snapper, John Dory 8)

Wonder what the poor people are doin 8)

fishing Russ

 

[Peril]

Well done JB. Top feed

 

[JB]

This weekend a couple of my mates and I are going to serious (very serious) big red territory (catching a 10kg snapper is not out of the norm). Only landbased but accessed by yak and rubber ducky. not going to be fishing off the yak as its the location a year and half ago where a very big great white decided a yak fisher was for dinner (but didn't get him not from want of trying). There has been a few stories about it on this stire I think.

the snapper "season" proper is only a month away if that and thats when it really hots up. With more NZ fullas joining up here every day I'm sure you will get the picture when things start hotting up.... and I haven't even started about the kingfish coming back in November.......