Thread: Shore based snapper fishing

Just seen this post @Boaraxa, this time last year I had a few great weekends of harbour fishing up at Houhora. Had a couple of evening fishes on the incoming where we caught 3-4 400 mm fish each.

There was a great episode of outdoors with Geoff a while back where he was with a Jeweller from Hibiscus Coast. This fella was catching the same size fish regularly in July, in shallow water north of Orewa around the reefs in some cases 1m of water. He looked for channels between reef and rocks. He had a hook, his bait and no sinker.
His secret was he used an old ice cream scoop on a stick, which he scooped out a couple of scoops of a brew of left over salmon and rice/ mashed patato and cast it out into these channels. Consistency looked like putty. He would give it 5 mins then cast out his bait which he had dipped in a container on his belt which had blended salmon that looked like pink snott.
He was catching decent fish at dead low tide!