West Coast fishing report November 2021
With alert levels moved allowing westies to hit the water, nows the time to target the snapper around the 50m mark. Positive signs for the whitebaiters!
Awesome news all around, weather’s great along with the fishing, and finally we have moved alert levels to allow us Westies to make the most of the season. Generally speaking, it is usually all about the 60m mark around this time, but even in level 3 there has been some great catches from inshore.
The Kontiki and Drone fisherman have been doing very nicely out to a few hundred metres offshore from both Ruapuke Beach and the main surf beach at Raglan.
The beach fishing further north up off Te Akau has been producing nice snapper around the 8lb mark also.
The boat fishing was just starting to ramp up and get consistent up until we got shut down but indications were very positive. There was some spectacular fishing down off Aotea between 40-50m, with some fish coming it at 30lb, along with plenty of others well into the double figures. As we head out for the first time in a few weeks, my pick is going to be somewhere around the 45m mark, and hopefully the gurnard are still around in good numbers.
As we also predicted the whitebait run definitely started to get a whole heap better as the little buggers started to run half-way through the month, with some nice consistent catches around the 5lb mark. Hopefully they come through again on the next decent tide.
That’s it from me at the minute. Due to no fishing over the past few weeks the offshore reports have been nil. But going by the amount of shop traffic since the level change announcement we will have a far better handle on things in our next report.
Good luck and see you out there.
Jason Clark - Tasman Tackle
