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North Island Snapper & Kingfish Report: Bay of Islands to the Hauraki Gulf

North Island Snapper & Kingfish Report: Bay of Islands to the Hauraki Gulf

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Kia ora, it’s Artificial Lure here with your North Island fishing report. We’ll start up north. Around the Bay of Islands and out of Tutukaka, the morning high tide has been lining up nicely with first light, giving snapper fishos a good bite window in 10–25 metres. A soft, glassy start has been common this week with light offshore breezes, building to a bit of sea breeze and chop mid‑afternoon. Sunrise is just after seven, sunset a touch before five, so your prime bite times are those first and last two hours of light around the turns of the tide. Snapper have been the main show inshore. Anglers running 3–5 inch soft baits in natural browns and pinks on light jig heads over the sand and foul have been putting good pans and the odd 60‑plus into the bin. Straylined baits have still done the damage: fresh kahawai slabs, pilchard, and bonito cubes are the standouts. Berley on the sand in 12–18 metres off places like Whale Rock and closer in to the Ninepin has been drawing fish right up the trail. Kingfish activity has picked up around the usual haunts – markers, reefs, and headlands. Live mackerel slow‑trolled around prominent structure, or dropped down on the pins, has produced some solid fish. For lure fishos, 80–120 g mechanical jigs in blue/silver or green/yellow and mid‑sized stickbaits worked just subsurface have been reliable. Workups have been sporadic but where gannets and dolphins are found on the mid‑harbour bait schools, there have been school kings and good snapper underneath. Down off the Hauraki Gulf and East Coast Bays, cooler mornings with light southwesterlies have had the harbour pretty calm early before the afternoon sea breeze kicks in. The bigger bite has been on the incoming around the edges of the channels and over the worm beds. Micro‑jigs in the 10–30 g range and small fluttering slow‑pitch jigs have been accounting for mixed bags of snapper, kahawai, and the odd gurnard. Fresh jack mackerel and squid baits fish well here when the wind is up and lure control gets tricky. West coast missions out of places like Raglan and the Manukau need a close eye on the bar and forecast, but when the swell has eased back, the 40–60 metre line has given up good snapper and juvenile puka. Ledger rigs with salted bonito and squid have been doing the business, and there have been reports of solid kahawai schools on the surface – perfect for both the smoker and livebait tanks. A couple of hotspots to circle on the chart right now: • Off Cape Brett in 25–40 metres: good snapper numbers and by‑catch of kahawai on soft baits and lightly weighted baits, especially around the morning high. • The workups and worm beds out from Tiritiri Matangi down towards the middle gulf: when the birds are on, micro‑jigs and lightly weighted soft baits are getting hit on the drop. Overall, fish activity has been best around the tide changes, particularly when that lines up with dawn or dusk and a bit of current. Keep your rigs light, your presentations natural, and don’t be afraid to move if you’re not getting bites within 20–30 minutes. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss the next 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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