Coast Fishing Kapiti - Wellington, Paraparaumu, Raumati, Otaki, Mana, Pukerua Bay, New Zealand.

We went fishing on Saturday at Paraparaumu and although there was a nice southerly blowing through we still managed to get out. Launching the Zodiac from the beach can cause some issues even with the smaller wave – we don’t have a front cover on our boat to keep the water from splashing over the [...]

Well as the title says, we went out yesterday at Paraparaumu Beach and caught 2 Snapper, 2 Kahawai a Gurnard and a Thresher Shark (which got off). It was great conditions yesterday – no wind and overcast. We went out at about 11:30am with the tide going out. We were hoping to catch the tide [...]

Well we just brought a Garmin 300 c fish finder, after our cheap one died last year, and so we took it out for a test the other weekend. We only caught a few Kahawai and a barracuda plus my brother got into something very large which snapped his line…

We went fishing on Saturday at around 12pm just to see if the Snapper might have come in at Paraparaumu Beach. Having not done any fishing over Winter we were a bit rusty. We got our little Zodiac out and scrubbed it off. We headed out at Paraparaumu Beach and had a quick fish as [...]

We went out fishing a week or so back and managed to get 1 Snapper, 4 Kahawai, 1 Baracudda, 1 Gurnard, a few smaller Sharks and a couple of undersized blue cod – unfortunately I forgot the camera. It’s been a bit tough over the last week or so to get out due to the [...]

We went out today and caught 4 Snapper, sized between 4kg – 7kg, drifting between Kapiti Boat Club and Raumati Beach, at a depth somewhere between 20 – 30m. We also caught another 2 pan size Snapper. We released 3 of the 4 large Snapper due to the fact they were just to large for us to keep, also they were older Snapper ideal for breeding stock. I caught two of the four large Snapper using the Snapper rig with a Large piece of Squid. My brother caught his two large Snappers on the Snapper rig using fresh Mackerel.

Well we went out today and caught about 4 Kahawai and lots of Carpet Sharks, a string ray and aBlind Eel but no Snapper??? Well we went out just off Kapiti Boat Club and started fishing about 200m north of the Club. We caught a Kahawai there and I also caught an undersized Blue cod… a bit random I thought considering we were over a sandy bottom. There must have been quite a bit of Blue Cod there, as our lines kept getting stripped of bait.

Raumati Beach – 7 Snappers – 3 Kahawai – 2 Gurnard – 2 Mackerel – 1m Shark DRIFT FISHING

Huge Gurnard, great fishing Saturday. A bit Rough however.

Caught a Snapper, Trevally, and Kahawai also tried out our home made down rigger