Wellington / Kapiti

fishing report

September 29, 2021

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Getting a break from the wind. Not so easy at this time of year, and true to form some decent time on the water has been pretty hard to come by of late. On the brief occasions we’ve managed to get out, fishing has been pleasantly successful, with terakihi, puka and kingies all playing ball out at the Hunter Bank.

We lost a couple of really good fish, but still managed to land a couple.

Out west of Hunter Bank there have been some really good snapper caught on slow jigs as deep as 120 metres, and there’s always the chance of puka here as well.

This seems to be a bit of a thing as Palliser Bay has been turning up good snapper out as deep as 100 metres also.

Snapper seem to be pretty abundant off Makara in a more traditional 60 – 80 metres.

The harbour has been a bit quieter and a few too many spiney dogs are around, but this may fire up a bit as we get warmer, and the water clears up a bit. Still some good catches of gurnard to be had though.

Kapiti is fishing pretty well for snapper at the north end, but we have reports it’s been not as good off the southern end.

The weather is looking pretty good from this Friday through to mid next week, so we will try and get out there hopefully for a few days and get a better picture of what’s going on.

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Cheers Pete

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