leigh rock spots
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: Landbased & Surfcasting
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Printed Date: 15 Jun 2026 at 10:32am
Topic: leigh rock spots
Posted By: JBoffshore
Subject: leigh rock spots
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2003 at 9:02pm
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does anyone have some good spots off the mainland at leigh. we stay at a house on barrier veiw road where i walk down and fish off the rocks. only caught one barely legal snapper and hooked a big stingray about 5 times plus a few rock cod in the very numerus times i have fished here. some help would be appreciated as i am spending lots of time in this area in the upcoming months. b.m |
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Posted By: KingfishSi
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2003 at 7:41am
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BM, I've fished a few times at Omaha Cove which is the bay just south of Goat Island. It's just around the corner from the Outpost. I haven't had much luck but that could be because I have been fishing in the middle of the night. Usually catch a few snapps bordering on being legal. I haven't been up there for a couple of months now. I'm trying to fish at the Outpost sometime, but want to go there during the daytime. Good luck! ------------- Keep knockin', nobody's home. |
Posted By: jerm
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2003 at 8:24am
| Whilst up at Leigh a few months back I got talking with a couple of locals on this subject - they told me that the big ones come in under the cover of dark and the the biggest fish (at that time) were being caught at about 2 am. Sounds to me BM that you are fishing at the right time at that spot. Plenty of burley would be the answer at this time of the year. i.e. burley bombs and plenty of chunked up pillies. |
Posted By: KingfishSi
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2003 at 11:28am
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Last time I was up there we dispersed about 10kgs of pillie/mussel berley and caught bugger all. Things started off pretty promising at around 10pm I think it was. We left at 3.30am with zip. ------------- Keep knockin', nobody's home. |
Posted By: JBoffshore
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2003 at 8:15pm
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thanks for the info. i fished there over the easter holidays in th early mornings then went for a surf then fished the evenings. did this for 4 days straight. generally fished mornings 5:00-7:30 and evenings 6:00-9:00. i wasnt using burley as i didnt have any but i was throwing in kina and chopped up pillies. next time i will be organised and give it a solid bashing. b.m |
Posted By: Damo
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2003 at 8:46am
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Have a look under the cemetry. there is an easy track down to the ledges. Has been productive in the past but I'd wait for the swell to ease! Burley up Damian ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">  www.charterconnection.co.nz Facebook: Diversity-Fishing |
Posted By: Grounded
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2003 at 6:22pm
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Under the cemetery???? Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones...... Chris ------------- It's a mystery to me I was a Jerk On Line |
Posted By: JBoffshore
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2003 at 9:00pm
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thanks guys will be trying them. b.m |
Posted By: Rock Fish
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 2:34am
| Cemetery?, What cemetery are these guys talking about? I've been finding as of late I've been having more action on the west coast than the east coast but want to make my way back upto Leigh again. |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 9:25am
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THE CEM is realy for small fish's only now Damo.. BM up around the coast towards the Goat res is the better way and the cove , if you can do a boat ride up from boat ramp towards Goat isld you will see untold spots. and then just a matter of sushing out how to walk to them ------------- woman who say they are equal to men ,show lack of Ambition . |
Posted By: JK
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 9:29am
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haha talk about an old post. The CEM wasnt bad in 2003.......5 years ago now! But Oneleg is right, lots of small goldfish there now. Last time I went there i could onl fish 1 rod as every single bait got hit. Ended up with about 30 landed but only 2 or 3 legal. ------------- LedgeNZ LBG |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 9:44am
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Ti point is allso a place to try most of it still fishs well with the odd king still to be taken and JD's under the wharf ------------- woman who say they are equal to men ,show lack of Ambition . |
Posted By: Kingie69
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 10:16am
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rock fish... you funny guy, those guys talking about a cemetery and then you bring this post back from the dead... haha
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Posted By: KingiSlayer
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 6:43pm
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I think the CEM spot your referring to is known as Nordic? Great all tide swimming spot
------------- It is the God of the Tight Line by which I am governed |
Posted By: Tomatron
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2008 at 7:22pm
| Hi there, If you go to Mathesons bay, walk around to the RIGHT hand point just before a private beach there, there are a couple of bricks sticken out. Take the mask and get loads of kina, smash em up ina bucket with your gaff butt and hurf them into the burly. Done this while spearfishing and had 25 30 pannies come in about 50m off the rocks bout 4m of water. Some lager ones bout 3kg too! I'm itching to give it ago sometime but wil wait for crud water vis so can't go spearfishing! Flick in half unweighted pillies and they will do the damage. Also yeah the top of outpost is good lots of good kings up there also lots of decent sharks so get the kings in quickly! Again burly up with whatever you get your hands on. Let us know how you go! |
Posted By: LEVCAT
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2008 at 8:26pm
| hi guys what's the out post? |
Posted By: JK
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2008 at 8:39pm
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northern side of the entrance to leigh harbour
------------- LedgeNZ LBG |
Posted By: LEVCAT
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2008 at 9:02pm
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o yea i thought so... is it the island where the powerline is heading to?
i get the general area, i've fished there off the bricks a couple of times for some pannie snapps and trevally and some big munter piper. |
Posted By: jimt
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2008 at 9:52pm
| Hi. The outpost(maori island( as we know it can be a top spot. Land based be prepared for a stay of the tide.6 or so years ago the biggest fish caught from a Fryan was caught there on a 13ft boat, on the Furuno. The weather was bad but the water there is deep. I used to get crays around the corner by the steps but gave up as too many people were pulling my pots. Also in the entrance to leigh harb at the right time it can be squid paradise. Cheers. |
Posted By: Bungel_
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2026 at 8:51pm
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... still ****. Thought this one might be worth an update :) .... nice easy walk in and the track is mostly still maintained.
Looks like it would go off more in the evening..... Plenty of people fishing it during the day. ------------- here fishy, fishy fishy..... |