Help a keen fisherman

Help a keen fisherman

Hello all, me and a few mates have just started fishing....we are not sure what we are doing wrong but we havent caught anything in a few outtings so we need some help! We are just fishing around the wellington area and just using average rods with either a spinner or a sinker and hook. We are using soft bait because we heard it is good but yea...... Can anyone help on a good location or a better way to fish! Thanks Multilyith

Get yourself a fly rod, and an expert teacher.

Go to lake ferry

Where abouts is that mate?

Try the wharf just before the Miramar Cutting - where the ship used in filming King Kong is tied up.  There's always a lot of people fishing there.  Do what they do.

Or just steal the fish out of peoples buckets, if thats what your doing it for.

funny guy

I'm keen to get into fishing here as well

Any suggestions as to
1) Best places to fish
2) Best gear to use
3) Best bait to use
4) Fish your most likely to catch

i heard new world is  a good place to fish.

Or there are other forums for fisher folk- or go on a charter with local legend Pete Lamb:
http://www.petelambfishing.co.nz/ (forums on that site too)

or better yet, get rid of the fishing rod and buy a wet suit and a spare gun
My bro in law who posts on those forums caught nothing but small blue cod until he got a wet suit and now regularily brings home butterfish, paua, cod, moki and huge crays-

spots are secret of course but suffice to say it is not the miramar wharf!

I went on a Pete Lamb charter off the Kapiti coast  - very good. Loads of Groper caught - I caught a rather large eel. Moved further in a caught some snapper and loads of undersized orange bastards (roughys)

I thought you were talking about Kruse and Zullo there, for a minute

hey this is a fishing forum
stop talking footie!

Some people have a gift...my mate would wander down to the harbour, find some old fishing line and a couple of thrown away hooks, tie a few rocks on as sinkers and pry off some of those pipi thingys off of a rock to use as bait and he'd always catch something. Used to drive the guys with all the rods and gear wild!