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timlawrence Fishing Spot Spring is here, the water is warming up and the work-ups are starting to happen. Reports coming in are telling us that there are snapper finally under those work-ups – all we need now is the wind to go away. The weather gurus are talking about this summer being one of the strongest El-Niño weather patterns in years. This means we will see strong winds this spring and a dry summer for the East coast. Learn to read the forecasts well and pick your weather windows. I think it will be a tough summer for getting out wide – or maybe it’s a summer to get that bigger boat to get out wide (might have trouble getting that one past the wife...) Once again we struggled to get out a lot due to the weather this month, with both of us getting cabin fever. A couple of weeks ago, we decided to head to Little Barrier first thing in the morning. At 02:48 on Saturday morning, Mike texted me to see if I was awake – I wasn’t – thanks, Mike! We left home at 03:30-ish and arrived at Little Barrier just after 05:00. The fishing was slow and we moved around a bit looking for the bite as the sun came up. A few snaps were landed, along with some blue cod and tarakihi. We decided to move to another spot where we had done well in the past but that wasn’t firing either, so we went back to the first spot and pumped the burley to bring the fish around. After about 5 hours’ fishing, we left with 2 blue cod, 3 snapper and 14 tarakihi. Although it was slow fishing, we ended up with a few feeds for our families. October is where we will all see some better fishing. The whole month is riddled with good fishing days, with excellent bite times. Luckily, they are later in the week and on weekends – so there is no excuse for you to not catch any fish this month. Basically, all you need to do is fish the last three weekends of October, early in the morning, to catch the change of light and the excellent bite times (that means get out of bed and be in your fishing spot by 06:00!) Have fun out there – tight lines!
