If you fish the tip of the mole on the left hand side with metal slugs you will bring in barracuda one after the other. They attack the lure as soon as they hit the water and you will be on before you take up the slack in the line. Not good to eat but great fun to catch.
that's a cool tip. Barracouta are real good fun to catch, eh. especially on light tackle sometimes I keep one for bait. They actually taste good too, but 9 out of 10 times have those parasitic worms in their meat, which is not very appetizing at all 😆
try to use crabs and mussels for bait when you fish from the beaches or rocks. Gives you a good chance to catch rig or moki. Fishing in the harbour from a kayak is also good fun and very productive.
It depends where you are really. You can catch a lot of yelloweyes and kahawai east of Dunedin, in the channels around the estuarine areas. They come in at low tide chasing mullets. Also quite a lot of sea run trout (fresh wilds coming off a couple rivers) and the occasional salmon.
thanks for the feedback. Yeah the Aramoana Mole is probably better suited for diving than fishing. I have talked to a few locals who were spearfishing there. Hopefully it will become an official marine reserve. Just going for a dive and marvelling at the underwater world would be already totally worth the trip. The more marine reserves we have the better as this will improve fishing everywhere else.
Find myself back here after a year has passed and must say I still enjoy this video. Found myself fishing at almost all of these spots over the summer as well 😂
