30 THE FISHING PAPER & HUNTING NEWS - DECEMBER 2018
FISHING-HUNTING-BIKING-CAMPING
mokihinui
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fishing competition
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10 Day Competition
Heaviest Daily Fish Weighed Each Day................................... $50
26 Dec 2018–4 Jan 2019
Heaviest Daily Snapper Weighed Each Day................................... $50
TOTAL PRIZE VALUE
Heaviest Fish ........................................ $300 Runner-up ..............................................$100
$3300 Entry Fees: Open $20 Junior $2
Longest Fish ...............$50 Cash & $100 Reel
Ladies Most Fish...................................... $50
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Competition Area: Old Man Rock to Granity School
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Lucky Fish ........................... $300 Rod & Reel
Heaviest Kahawai...................................$100
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From Sinker to Smoker Ron Prestage Baits for Mokihinui Over the years I have tried out many baits at Mokihinui, usually during the annual tenday fishing competition. Soft fish baits like pilchards and anchovies just do not cut it there. The constantly moving, often turbulent West Coast waters call for tough baits, as well as tough fishers. I have ranked the following baits in order of my successes with them:
minutes is my usual soak time if the crabs are not too busy and expect to catch snapper, kahawai, and the odd large passing ray.
Squid.
Trev’s latest West Coast snapper As good as paddle crabs for rig bait. Plenty of bait elastic needed again. Keep these expensive Aussie imports frozen until use, only thawing to land snapper, conger eels, enough out for one session at sharks, and red cod with these a time. I like to use a pulley rig cut baits. with a large keeper hook when Fresh kahawai. fishing with prawn baits. Sometimes a top bait for Fresh yellow-eyed mullet. snapper but again the blood On mussel baits, catch these at the river mouth and expect can attract undesirables.
Good quality, pearly-white squid is my favourite and mainstay. It freezes well and must be kept in good shape at the beach by using ice and a chilly bin. As you cut the baits, shape a few tentacles on each one to add to its appeal. Squid stays on the hook well during the cast and its sojourn on the sea floor. No need for bait elastic. Twenty to thirty
Paddle crabs. These are easily obtained at the Mussel Rocks and are great bait for rig and at times snapper. Use plenty of bait elastic to keep them securely on the hook. Banana prawns.
Octopus. Worth a try when the snapper are about. Solitary big snapper get tempted at times. A very durable bait that can soak for an hour or two.
Trev’s bait tip Trevor Alty of Westport recently has had success surfcasting on the West Coast using salted bonito for bait. Trev buys frozen bonito bait from a service station, salts it overnight with non-iodised salt and then refreezes it, taking what he doesn’t use at the beach back home to the freezer.
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