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North Island Fishing Report: Settled Skies, Steady Snapper Action Across the Gulfs

North Island Fishing Report: Settled Skies, Steady Snapper Action Across the Gulfs

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This is Artificial Lure with your North Island fishing report. A settled high is parked over the North Island today, giving most coasts light winds and clear skies. MetService has light variable winds in the morning, tending sea breeze in the afternoon, with only a slight chop for the Hauraki Gulf, Bay of Plenty and the Far North. Air temps are cruising in the mid-teens to low 20s, so it’s a really comfortable day to be on the water. Sunrise was around twenty past seven, with sunset just after five in the evening, so your prime bite windows are the classic dawn and dusk change-of-light periods. NIWA’s tide tables for Auckland show a mid‑morning high and late‑afternoon low, with decent movement through the middle of the day. On the east coast, especially the inner gulf and Bay of Plenty, that run‑in tide over the morning has been the key. Local tackle shops around Auckland and Whangārei report snapper still feeding well in 10–25 metres, especially over broken foul and shell. Most fish are pannies in the 35–45 cm range, with the odd bigger model nudging 60 cm. Workups are patchy but when the kahawai push bait up, there are gannets on top and snapper underneath. Soft-baiters have been doing well with 4–5 inch jerk shads and paddle tails in natural baitfish colours – nuclear chicken, bruised banana, and pilchard patterns all getting bites. A 3/8 to 1/2 oz jighead has been about right in the current. Straylining fresh bait is still deadly: pilchard, mullet, and fresh kahawai slabs drifting lightly weighted back into the burley trail are producing consistent tables of fish. For those microjigging, 20–40 g lures in pink, blue and lumo worked slowly near the bottom have found snapper, trevally and the odd john dory on reefs off Kawau, Little Barrier and Mayor Island. Tauranga and Whakatāne charters report solid kingfish on the deeper reefs, mostly schoolies but a few brutes. Live mackerel and koheru are top baits, with mechanical jigs in blue/silver or green/gold also producing when the current is humming. On the west coast, when the bar conditions allow, charter skippers out of Manukau and Kaipara say the snapper are holding a bit wider, with gurnard and school shark mixed in the bins. Fresh kahawai cubes and squid on ledger rigs are doing the damage there. A couple of hot spots to circle on the map today: • Hauraki Gulf inner reefs around Waiheke and Motuihe channels – great for snapper on the incoming, especially flicking soft-baits along the edges of the banks. • Bay of Plenty reef systems like Penguin Shoals and the inshore pins off Motiti – good mixed bags of snapper, terakihi and kingfish for those fishing jigs and livebaits. Overall fish activity has been described by local skippers as “steady rather than on fire” – you’ve got to move a bit, watch your sounder, and make the most of those current changes. Keep your leaders light, your presentations natural, and don’t be afraid to drop down a hook size if the bite’s tentative. That’s your North Island fishing wrap from Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
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