6 NELSON / TASMAN / GOLDEN BAY - fishing guide 2014
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A good place for surfcasting. Fishing during the day can bring results, but it is better fishing on dark or after dark. Remember the paddle crabs take your bait during daylight hours. After dark they leave your bait alone. You can also set a crab pot here for a feed of paddle crabs.
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11 Wharariki Beach
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A spectacularly scenic surfcasting beach. Free diving for paua when conditions allow.
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12 Fossil Point A 20 minute walk from the base of Farewell Spit car park. Surfcast off the beach or rocky outcrops. Kahawai, sharks and other fish can be caught. Change of light and after dark is best. Beware of the large waves and dangerous undertow of the sea. A lovely place to watch the sunset.
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13 Outside Farewell Spit Early spring target snapper, trevally, gurnard and rig. Further offshore beyond the 40 metre mark fish for albacore tuna and mako sharks.
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Good sized snapper and trevally in spring and again in late summer through until mid summer are regularly caught around the mussel farms. Paddle crabs and flounder are prolific in the estuary.
At low tide it’s possible to walk out and survey the channels and pools for the small fish that get caught on the out going tide and toward high tide.The bay is deep enough for the snapper to come in and feed, making it a reasonable surfcasting spot.
2 Port Tarakohe The breakwater for the marina allows you to cast into the bay. There are one or two places on the rocks that allow you to get down to the water’s edge without too much difficulty, but most people go off the point. Fish summer through to early autumn for snapper along with yellow-eyed mullet, black rays, dogfish, gurnard and kahawai. It is best to fish the change of light either in the early morning or late evening. On the mussel farms west of Tarakohe you’ll find snapper. From spring through to mid summer kingfish like to play around the mussel farms with live bait, trolling and surface lures all proving successful.
2 – 3 Between Tarakohe and Pohara Ths is a popular area for setlining, evening drift fishing and flounder netting from boats.
mussel farmers’ way when they are working. Collingwood boat ramp is very tidal, launching access is only for two and a half hours either side of high tide.
4 Golden Bay Scallop Beds In decline and patchy.
5 Patons Rock Good fishing from boats, or fish off the rocks at both low and high tides. Fishing the change of light and even after dark will reward you. Check out the rocks at low tide so you know where you can cast your lines without losing gear on rocks. Good snapper fishing.
6 Onekaka (including near the old wharf) Snapper and other fish can be caught along this stretch. A small boat ramp is available. Fish can be caught quite close in, particularly in the late evening. Along the reef slightly offshore from here is a proven school snapper spot in early spring and fishes particularly well in early morning. Further out on the 20 to
30 metre line set lining has been highly successful during early to late spring for large snapper. Check out this area for summer albacore.
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7 Collingwood, Aorere River Mouth Always a good spot to catch kahawai or sea-run trout. Use a lure or bait and fish the incoming tide at the back of the Collingwood Motor Camp. Snapper can also be caught off this spot. This is also a good winter flounder spearing area.
8 Aorere River - for the trout fishing enthusiast This has good quantities of brown trout. There are several places you can access the river by bridges, but don’t be afraid to ask a farmer. Most will let you cross their land.
9 Mussel Farms If you have a boat this is the place for you. There can be particularly good snapper fishing from December to March early morning annd again in the evening. Launch your boat at the Collingwood boat ramp. Remember to pay your boat ramp fee. Tie up to the mussel farms, but keep out of the
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