Wellington / Kapiti

fishing report

October 8, 2021

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Just a quick update to last week's report. Wind is still playing a factor in preventing consistent time on the water, and we have only been out once or twice since the last report, and fishing has continued to be pretty successful, with tarakihi, puka and kingies out at the Hunter Bank.

***A lovely john dory, always a bonus for the pot***

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West of Hunter Bank, as reported last week, there have been some really good snapper and kingis’ caught on slow jigs as deep as 120 metres, and there’s always the chance of puka or big teris’ 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 one day and gone the next - in a more traditional 60 – 80 metres.

Boom rock produced a nice kingi and snapper for us the other day but the couta were in plague proportions and spooked tarakihi.

Verns has been good for teris (70-80mtrs) on the turn of tide.

On the last trip we caught 6 snapper just south of the mana bridge as well as a heap of kahawai

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.

Shore fishers have been enjoying excellent gurnard fishing inside Lambton Harbour.

Evan’s Bay has had a few snapper coming in at places like flat rock and Balena bay.

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. Spineys have been a problem closer to shore but when the water cleans up this should change.

Nicholson’s trench fired up plenty of big bluenose on the last fishable day and consistent tarakihi and blue cod have been taken further inshore along with the odd snapper and kingfish.

Some good catches of whitebait have been taken at Waikanae, Otaki, lake ferry and a few lesser-known spots.

It’s perfect time for surfcasters in Palliser Bay for the run of blue moki, gurnard and potentially snapper.

Best fishing is when the water is clean (less than a mtr southerly swell)

Places like long beach, karori stream beach, Fitzroy Bay and Wainui are good (closer to wgtn) shore fishing spots at this time of the year as well - bluecod, moki, gurnard and tarakihi.

Good luck out there.

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Cheers Pete

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