Fishing The Coast - Wellington, Paraparaumu, Raumati, Otaki, Mana, Pukerua Bay, Wairarapa, Castle Point, New Zealand.

The First thing you need to do is to kill the Kahawai. The best method is with several hard blows to the head with a fish donger. The heart will beat for several minutes after the Kahawai has died, so there is no worry about the blood not coming out.
If you catch a Kahawai you [...]

After our mish to the south coast with big swells,it was good to settle into some smaller waves and favorable conditions at my local haunt.
Still lots of Spiny Dogs,Red Cod and plenty of little Tope around,the Kahawai are slowly showing themselves as the Whitebait are slowly making their way up Otakis mouth.
Hopefully the northerlies stay [...]

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 [...]

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.

We decided to give drift fishing ago on Saturday. So we went out about 9:30am, with ideal fishing time guessed at about 12:50pm.