I have been out twice in the last week and fished my feet first not going more than 3 Nautical Miles from Tauranga Harbour entrance. Both occasions needing only half a day to load up on beautiful Terakihi at a rate of up to 3 at a time.
These close to home patches of foul ground and papa ledges along with the abundance of Terakihi are hosting a wide range of tasty bottem dwelling table fish like Gurnard, John Dory and in the mid water range plenty of big Kahawai.
For bait i have been using Bonito, Squid and last years scallop skirts, finding that when on the bite the terakihi will just about eat anything as long as your baits are small enough to eat.
The rigs I am using at the moment consist of 30lb trace with 3x 2/0 Wasabi recurve hooks and 4 ounce sinker.
I have been fishing in 25 - 35M on patches of foul ground and using very small cube baits.
I expect the Kahawai numbers in Coastal areas to increase rapidly toward summer as now the Whitebait are running up Rivers and Harbours.
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