Hi Folks! Having sold the boat am off hoofin it this week end (A new experience) and am lookin forward to it.   Hot Water Beach or the channel entrance to Hahei would be the closest to have a fish.  Any info on this area would be great.

 Thanks

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Some big snapper speared in this area to 9kg plus.

Russ

hi X the naki

I used to get good snapper at the north end of Hahei beach.There is a big pine down there,fish in front of that tree on an incoming evening tide its been great for me in the past........good snaps..

Cheers  Brad

Lethal,

How do you get access to the penisula there? I have always had to walk around the rocks from hot water beach, and it gets fricken tricky in places.

And how tricky is it climing down on the rope?

Curious to know

  Hi Guys! Your response has been awesome and the chart is brilliant (Lethal)

  Hope all of you have a good fish this weekend if you are goin out otherwise

  if youre in Auckland you will probably be at the boat show.   Look forward to

  catchin up when I get back.

  Thanks again

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Hi Kerren......

it's funny how this is were i started most of my fishing and diving in this area some 40years ago..... and when i met my second wife i draged her down here to show her what i did in my younger years..... she would only go half way to the fishing spot i had in mind that day, and said ok this is it we go down here or we go back...... i had to give in when i saw the tears in her eye's from all the walking we had done, because i had taken a wrong turn and now we had walked twice as far as needed.....

that day she was pulling in this tidler when it got really heavy all of a sudden,  as the fish got closer it turned out to be a huge snapper and just as i went to get it this little tidler still legal snapper come out off it's mouth, so me being my normal self winds in my rig and just with a bit of skin for bait dropped it in front of this xxos snap to grab, and i was now into her fish in a big way, but all things turn out and we managed to land it......

but going back to when i was a kid we didnt even take bait to fish these rocky out crops along this coast, just some of the memories that come streaming back from fishing here would make a book larger than most, and stuff most people would never beleive could of ever happened....

 like coming back to what they called a motor camp which only had tents in it, the 3 of us, myself, my step dad and his mate would have our three rangon cane rods over their shoulders with 4 or 5 fish weighing in from 15lb-20lb plus snapper hunging from them, and this was the norm for a days fishing along that coast then..... 

 and things like the Herald where dropped off by a plane and bounce half way up the hill side before stopping,

and when we started diving every pole in the tent that stuck up with a nail sticking up had a king fish tail attached to it,

when you wanted some meat you took the gun up to the cow shed and shoot wide pigs from beside the farmer while he was milking the cows, thats how close they came to the cow shed.....

it would take a good 8-10hours to travel to Hot water beach in those days in an old hillman loaded too the max, up over the tapu hill and down the other side, in those days there were only two houses in the whole place, and a little shed which was called a shop......

but we kept going back every year for about 9years in total, and looking back now i would say it was the best time of my life,  nothing i can recall would come close to those days we fished or dived in this area.......

what stuffed the fishing down here was the box net it took everything and once that was in place the fishing was really hard so we stopped going back....

untill i meet my second wife,  so thats a little insite to what i did when i was a kid....

Cheers Lethal

 

Those darn boxnets... The first one was off Sandy bay, a little inside Devils Point. I remember on our boat nudging up to the net, and looking down seeing sharks both inside and outside the net patrolling along the perimeter, and also seeing heaps of dead fish rotting in the net(caught up). I remember a school of large kingies inside the net. These damn boxnets were just plain killers. The one off hotwater beach was set about a year after the sandy bay one. We seldomly fished south of Whitianga, so didn't notice the effect it had on Hotwater beach environs. We mainly (and still do )fished Whitianga - north, the Islands, reefs etc. The Sandy bay one tho', sure stuffed fishing inside the point.

Lethal, was that you guys holding us up over the Tapu hill, eh? It was us in the Studebaker, or then the Vangaurd trying to get past ya, heh heh heh.

Cheers Guys.

OK... OK... I give up... What is a Box Net and what were they set up to do???