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Bite times are right on both changes of light Saturday and Sunday, with some nice mid-day bite times.  Make sure you’re at your spot fishing in these windows and not motoring ;-)

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SATURDAY:

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MAJOR BITE: 04.08am – 06.08am

MINOR BITE: 11.35am to 12.35pm

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SUNDAY:

MAJOR BITE: 05.01am – 07.01am

MINOR BITE: 12.43pm – 1.43pm

Great places to fish in the weekend would be pretty much anywhere out in the Gulf on Sunday, but with a light southerly the northern coastlines of Waiheke, Tiri, Kawau, and off the top of the Coromandel and north-west side of Great Barrier should be sheltered and offer plenty of opportunity.

Chasing kingfish at Anchorite, Flat Rock, Channel Island, Horn Rock, The Pigeons area, all likely to be worth a look.

The 'fingers' or 'squiggles' have fished well recently, and are always at least worth a look at this time of year, and the two areas of foul just south of the fingers are also often good.

This area is around 50 metres and best results usually drifting with 120 gram kabura style lures and slow jigs/inchikus etc. If your line is not dropping straight down, you are drifting too fast, so have you got a good drift chute? It makes ALL the difference.

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Here's the Espresso report for the week...

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The Espresso Report March 12, 2020.

Make hay while the sun shines, the fishing is good and there’re some good looking wind windows to enable some great fishing over the next few days.

Then a significant change in weather is coming through next week for the Hauraki Gulf, storm warnings will be in force, high winds, heavy rain, Mother Nature’s mood is on the change, so before that happens…

Worm moon (or our southern hemisphere equivalent?) – that’s the massive bright night light rising to keep our sleep at a minimum, the biggest full moon for the entire year signalling the arrival of Spring/Autumn. Along with it are both strong tidal flows and Friday the 13th!

With such massive movements of water, the fishing in and around the shorelines of the gulf are teeming with hunters and foragers, fish using the natural disturbance of new upper and lower limits of tide, newly uncovered and covered areas, with feeding up on the new menu items a priority.

Midday high tides with morning and evening lows over the next few days is great for fishing whether you’re boat based or land based. Whether you stay in one area berleying a feeding frenzy into life or simply cast those little gorgeous little ‘Livies’ softbaits around on the drift, the fish are foraging, give them something they like the look of!

Watching kingfish hunt this week in the extreme shallows with bellies scraping rocky seaweed while dorsal fins break the sea surface has been exciting – the kingfish are on the hunt!

A fantastic opportunity to use the realism of Livies softbaits, or try a new adrenaline rush with the new small 20g and 35g Zingaz stickbaits, so you can watch as the fish strike your lure! Thrilling stuff, and now is the time, check them out, they are small and SO MUCH FUN!

Snapper will be getting the hint now, the hint that cooler climes are on their way, I expect the snapper bite to be strong the next few days, bigger fish making the most of extra current and temperatures.

Workups out along the eastern edge of the cable zone past Tiri will hopefully team up rather than the smaller spread out ones of late.

I expect some bigger events further out by Gt Barrier as the baitschools get hit by all sorts of predation – it’s that time of year.

There is a lot going on out there, lots of fish with lots of new adventures to be had, by you?

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Enjoy.

Espresso.

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