Biting Back in the Bay with Pinky Green

The three weeks tarakihi glut is now a little limited.

Russell Anderson (Bugger) last Thursday towards Bowentown the three anglers landed six tarakihi, six gurnard, three snapper and one kahawai.

Saturday three miles towards the Five Mile two anglers landed six snapper and one tarakihi.

Russ Hawkins (Fat Boy) last Thursday in the Middle Ground despite a very slow period mid-day overall it was a very good day. The four anglers landed 55 tarakihi and two snapper.

Brett Keller (Manutere) last Friday in the Middle Ground although a bit slower overall they landed a good number of fish - mainly tarakhi.

Saturday in the latter part of the day in the Middle Ground all the anglers collected six to 8 fish each. At Mayor early Sunday they got some good quality tarakihi and snapper. Puka fishing they landed four bluenose, one ling, and a small bass.

Garth Le Lievre (Deepstar) last Wednesday fishing towards the Middle Ground was slower but still good and by early afternoon all had their tarakihi limit. Sunday at Mayor the fishing was slow, but with greater variety. They landed mainly tarakihi, red snapper, and pink mao mao.

Our regular Papamoa kontiki fisher found beach fishing last week very much a hit and miss affair. Last Wednesday he brought in nine snapper in one set, but other days he got no more than two snapper in two sets.

At Pukehina last week good one set kontiki catches were four or five fish.

Kayak/canoe fishers at both Papamoa and Pukehina one to three kilometres offshore were generally doing well with snapper and tarakihi, fairly frequently getting their limit of both.