Reel Kiwi Fishing -Tips and tricks surfcasting from the rocks
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- Although there were no big fish around I had a brilliant late arvo off the bricks...
with some great late arvo weather on the cards I decided to go and flick a few baits off the rocks the other day, the tide wasn't quite right but with some unsettled weather on the way and the love of fishing I decided to go and get a line wet anyway.
I headed off to an old haunt I use to fish about 10-15yrs ago with an old mate, this spot use to produce some sold Reds to 15lb and the odd bigger that you couldn't stop before getting dusted off. We fished this spot on the dead low and would get an hour before the tide pushed you off the point, even then nudging back every 10-15mins we still caught nice fish all the way to half tide in before we were fully cut off.
The tide was about an hour to early as I like to fish this spot on dark while still dropping for an hour - this allows the smell of your bait swirl around in the shallows before that magic hour.
I didn't expect to much to happen so the plan was to just put a little vid together showing how I fish from the bricks. It was a mint afternoon with little wind and calm conditions, I even managed to pull up a few small Snaps which were released to fight another day.
This is my first vid I have put together showing how I fish and the things I do when fishing from the rocks - it won't be everyone's cuppa tea and it to show you how I do it not how you should do it..
I hope you enjoy
Tight Lines - Sport
Many thanks mate
Great explanation about how not to get snagged. Snagging is a headache for me.
This was an amazing video. Not only the quality, but also the gentle approach you used to explain your bait-tying and casting tips. I'm a fan now, bud. Thanks for this!
Nice work! Good tips on how to bait your pillies, I'll be trying it out next rock fishing mission.
Love watching this again.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video mate. Informative well thought out instructions, very good explanation speed. Not hyped no bullshit and very humble. This is my favourite instructional vid of all time no question.
Thank you friend for the time you put in to share your knowledge with amateurs n like myself.
Onward
Cheers DT
Love sharing my little adventures with you guys and try to help where I can. I'm pretty old school and like to keep it pretty raw / Kiwi so people can enjoy and understand and learn.
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cheers bro awesome info for me starting out off the rocks off the bays, subscribed!
Hey Dan
Can't seem to answer your Q on the Muriwai vid so thought would try come through here for ya - I don't fish that bottom end of Muriwai so unsure if it would hold fish but I can't see why not but the further you go the better it will be. We drive a good 15-20ks up the beach to surfcast.
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HI there. Thanks for taking the time to teach some tricks. I'm going to try them out. After a few outings off the rocks where I just helped keep the tackle shops in business I'm ready to try stray-lining in its various forms.
Cheers MT
Let me know how you go - fishing around the rough can be difficult but the more you do it the better you become at it and know when to change your rigs up - just remember the more kelpy/rocky it is the less weight you want to use and leaving the bait until it's hit or know when it's gone. The more you move it about, wind in and chuck out the more chance of getting fouled up....
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This is one video that I really enjoy watching over and over again, so relaxing after a hard days work, because we caught our first ever fish in NZ with the traces learnt. Thanks LK
Definitely gonna tie my bait like he showed us, I'm a newbie and this will help me heaps, alsothe tip about how not to get snagged is a goodie too. Thanks mate!
Thanks for sharing your video man
Nice vid, enjoyed watching it - thanks.
nice info bro. Going fishing this weekend and I'm using a few of your tips. enjoyed your video
Cheers man - like to help where I can and share my little adventures...
Good luck and Tight lines
Awsome video brother good tips to
Spot looks good for a casual fish. Good stuff 🤙🏾
Great info 👍
Cheers TS :-)
Bro you gave so many good tips in this video, massive help! Kapai
Cheers izzy
Great to hear :-)
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Awesome bro!
Cheers G.C
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Nice vid
Cheers MW :-)
Hey bro, really enjoyed your video. Very informative and clear explanation. What would really help is if you had someone on the camera that can do close ups of your rigging and baiting up.. The lighting wasn't the best but lucky your explanations are thorough.. a close up view for us newbies would be helpful thanks..
Keep up the good work bro..
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Best size braided to use when fishing off the rock for big snapper, kingfish and crevelle
If you are going to use the one reel then just braid it with 50lb - over heavy a little for Snaps but need at least that for Kings - If you have two reels spool your Snapper one with 20lb braid and your King one with 50-80lb
Nice editing and music choice, I like the wider 3rd person shots you use too, Subbed to support a fellow CZcams fisherman! :)
Shot bro🤙🏽
Brother I'm a Camper so always near the beach when I'm not working. Rags, the Mount, Papamoa, Waihi.
Though I watched your vid for the first time, I learnt more in 10mins than all those other YAHOO fishing shows on t.v.
This is more intimate so I actually can follow your skills easily without 4 or 5 different Yahoo's talking at the same time.
*But first I gotta buy me some gear.* Any ideas, recommendations or videos for this layman on what to buy plz bo? I want quality without breaking the bank. Say can $500 set me up with wat I need? Or spend more? Chur bro! 👍🏼
Hi MA cheers for the kind words and hope my vids help you out, this is part reason I love to do them is to help others and inspire.
If you are just surfcasting like off the beaches try get more a 14ft rod so you could look at the likes of the Okuma Xfactor or step up to the Okuma Tournament Concept. If your doing more off the rocks look at the Okuma Tournament Concept 10ft rock rod. It's a little nicer to have around that 10ft when fishing the rocks and 14 for off the sand - if you can't afford the 2 to do the two different styles 10ft is to short for surfcasting and 14 a little to long for off the rocks but can be used but you could look at a 12ft rod which will work for the two styles.
Reel wise if you want a bait feeder grab the Okuma Coronado this will work for rock and surfcasting on either rods - they have a 60 and 80 size - I fish with a little smaller gear so fish the 60 on my 10ft TC rock rod and will work well on a 12ft and get away with it on the 14 but if you want the bigger reel it will work on all of the rods.
Hope that helps and tight lines
@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing it's like darts and golf aye bro. Can get carried away with flights or loft. But at least with this gear brings home a fresh fish.
Cheers brother. I understand your korero and I'll do some hunting n research for the gear you recommended 🍺👍🏾
Really good videos, thanks for posting them. Ever tried further up in Orewa? Seems a bit too shallow.
Cheers g777
I haven't surfcast up that ways for a long time but never rule out if a spot is to shallow. Your better chance will be the Northern end around the rocks or even Hatties. There are a lot of places to fish with in 10-15mins of Orewa.
If you want to surfcast the beach have a go on the dead low and just before dark or just before light. Best time is just after an Easterly blow or you can even try a fish during the day when overcast with a bit of a swell running (light on-shores) etc.
Being all stired up will help a lot and over cast with late evening / early morning being those magic hours. Try around that Nov - Mar and don't give up if you get nothing the first few times. It's not to say you will catch fish there but you will raise the odds if you fish certain times, when people fish a spot and get nothing they very rarely keep trying it.
Just like fishing in the boat one day they are there the next day there not. People catch fish on the Kontiki etc which tells you there is fish there but how close in you won't know until you try.
Summer months put a wettie on wade out to waste deep just before dark on the dead low you may get a surprise?
I have caught nice fish to 2-3kilo from the beach back in the early 90's but will be a lot harder in our days but you can't catch a fish if you ain't out there trying it...
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@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing Thanks for all the info. I have come away empty handed a few times but still a trip to the beach! Been eyeing up the north for next time. Good job on the maxistrike vids too.
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Yea the beach can be a hard place to fish because of how shallow it can be and clear water etc, over populated areas with noise, pollution, shellfish gathering etc all play a big part - the fish can gather at a certain spot at a certain time. As said before try and fish them those magic hours and on the low - low allows you to get further out to where food would more likely be.
Nearly all rocky outlets have everything there that fish eat, they can hide in the kelp and rocks etc even just fishing down the side of rocks where the sand meets can up your catch rate.
Hatties is a lot more fishy even off the beach / fishing beside the rocks - go for a walk at dead low during the day to see where a nice spot is to cast to on the high. And low you can walk right out on the rocks etc. Unweighted baits is the way to go if you fish rocks.
Did the Maxistrike vids for work and The Warehouse - great for new comers to the sport or just learning a little more knowledge.
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Nice vid how do you defrost frozen pillies to stop them from disintegrating
The first couple I just put into a bit of salt water while I gear up then keep taking a couple out as I fish. Just dip them in the salt water then leave on chilly lid. Sometimes I even just leave them in the chilly over night.
Make bait cotton your best friend :-)
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Chur bro mean
Hey just wondering when exactly is the “magic hour”? And also is it worth using a floater when rock fishing?
Hi BM
Those magic hours are just before dark and just before light - I like to get to a spot 2-3hrs before hand to get the sent of my bait out there - this helps like a little berley. Most times I use just enough weight to get a little further out but if no wind and fish are in close I drop down to a floating bait (no sinker) If you are talking about an actual float that can work as well in the shallows and the weight of your float can aid in a bit more distance...
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where abouts are you I can see Rangitoto
East coast Bays North shore
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Hi what size mono main line u was using
Hi Ria - I have 25lb mono on that reel and 20lb braid on the other one I surfcast with out West. If you go heavy you will lose you distance, if your around rocks and need to fish heavy just use a little ball sinker if you can get away with it. If you want to fish floating baits try and stick under 30lb to get a bit of distance.
Hi I have 11foot rod is that good for rock fishing or is it to long
The old days and still now people fish with even there surf cast rods to 13ft off the rocks - there is really no rule, the length works well for getting the fish up and keep out of the weed / rocks etc and a longer rod helps with casting distance which most times off the rocks you don't need. For the past few years people are now fishing with heavier shorter rods and even just there standard 7ft heavy strayline rods. Some people like to use stick bait / popper rods around 8ft. 10ft is a nice length but going to even 12ft would be no problem at all.
What pound test are you useing
Being around the rough I use 25lb - if off the sand I go down as far as 15lb - the lighter you go the better casting distance you can get also, around the rocks I try to get away with no sinker then add a little ball sinker when needed.
REEL KIWI FISHING FISH WHISPERER thanks for the info
Fishing where you could end up in the water wearing gum boots is not wise...jump on a pool, let them fill up, then remove......oops can't..been told they find them standing on the bottom...police divers that is.
Cheers - yes not good in places that are deep only ankle to Knee deep in front of me as this is dead low tide you can see the beach right next to me - the rock pool on the rocks is deeper..I would have to walk roughly 100mtrs out for it to be over my head.
REEL KIWI FISHING FISH WHISPERER yeah thought so, as a deckhand, they got us to jump in a pool, deep end, in our work clothes.....shook me, at what happened, we all drowned..divers on bottom brought us to surface...i went home and heat a coat hanger, made two holes above instep...sorted..foot keeps water out. Rocks and hunting, dive boots. Got a scupper Pro 30 yrs ago, never looked back..you are on to it..tight lines..
Perry James Allen I’m pretty sure this man knows that. I fail to see how your post is helpful to him. STO stating the obvious