Wellington / Kapiti

fishing report

April 27, 2023

October 7, 2022

Supplied by

Pete Lamb

Pete Lamb Fishing

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Spring conditions mean it’s pretty up and down with the weather, and when that cold southerly blast rocks through it’s only the keen out there. When it is good, there’s a bit of good fishing going on.

We’ve managed some fishing at Hunter’s, and although we didn’t pick up any snapper, got a swag of big teri’s and a heap of big trevs.

It’s funny how trevally used to be pretty much used for bait, and nowadays they might be one of the best sashimi fish we can catch, certainly around inshore waters year-round anyway.

We fished the whole turn of the tide, and then tried some spots off Plimmerton, where there’s been reports of good snapper catches recently, but came up empty handed on the reds.

Not everyone is struggling though, and good snapper catches around Kapiti are not uncommon as we get closer to the spawning season for these fish soon.

From shore, the drone fisho’s are getting into some good action around Te Horo, Raumati, and Kapiti Coast, and this form of fishing is really growing in popularity across the country.

The more purist surf casting has not been up to much lately up the coast due to weather conditions, and the cold makes night fishing even harder to motivate all but the mad-keen.

Surf casting in the harbour has been pretty good though, and snapper are about mixed in with the usual suspects of kahawai, red cod, and gurnard.

Oriental Bay, Evan’s Bay and Flat Rock have turned up some really nice kingies on the slide baits.

Slide baiting is a really effective way of getting little jack macks way out past where you could ever cast and keeping them alive when they hit the water, essentially forced to swim in a one way direction to your waiting kingy or john dory. Here’s how it’s done if you’ve never heard of the method or want some tips…

https://www.nzfishingworld.co.nz/posts/slidebaiting-a-beginners-guide

https://www.nzfishingworld.co.nz/posts/slide-baiting

Some of our customers have been doing pretty well out at the Trench, catching some good bluenose, heaps of hoki, and of course the odd puka as well.

Saturday’s forecast is looking pretty good at this stage, and there’s another lull in the wind mid-week, so likely there will be a few boats out in the weekend.

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See you out there

Cheers

Pete

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