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mrsduckgunner Ex Member	The notorious Manukau Bar Feb 26^th, 2007 at 8:05pm	Print Post
	Not so notorious yesterday though with a nice easterly, but some of the smaller boats were still having a hard time of it! Fishing trawlers of to work raping & pillaging the sea . . . This looks like a good fishing spot if you could only get to it - straight down! Paratutai Island & light The Awhitu Lighthouse, recently refurbished and reopened by our mate Helen Looking towards Huia - some nice deep water close to shore over there!


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Duck Gunner Global Forum Guide Offline www.FishNhunt.co.nz Posts: 3091 Location: South Auckland Joined: Nov 8^th, 2006 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #1 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 8:20pm	Print Post
	One of Madness's Favourite Fishing grounds is out through this Bar, It has sunk many many boats over the years.


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MADNESS. Ex Member	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #2 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 8:33pm	Print Post
	yip i have been through that bit of water more times than i can remember in my tinny that a mint day to cross it gets much much worse than that i sent most of my school holidays anchored in the middle of that last photo filling a sugar sack with snapper and trev's


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Tone Forum Font Offline Papamoa Posts: 2714 Location: Taupo Joined: Dec 14^th, 2006 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #3 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 9:03pm	Print Post
	I spent countless weekends and scholl holidays at Whatipu. My Grandfather had a batch there. I have been out and stood on the manukau bar. It was a dead flat day and a wicked low tide. We have watched several boats strand themselves there too trying to come into the harbour to early. I have cast sinkers from flat rock and smashed a window on a boat that dropped his nets not more than thrity meters away. Watched a school of kingi's decimate the Kahawai population. My Grandfather had a mullet on a hook, tied off to the end of a gaff and then tied off to the rocks. Got hammered by a king and my old man pulled it in. Went 55lbs and was a photo in the lodge for many years. Lots of memories The island with the light on is Nine Pins. Paratutai is on the right hand side of photo 4


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Duck Gunner Global Forum Guide Offline www.FishNhunt.co.nz Posts: 3091 Location: South Auckland Joined: Nov 8^th, 2006 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #4 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 9:06pm	Print Post
	My next mission will be at the bottom of Photo 3, You can get down there, but it's not easy.


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blackbunny Donor Member Offline Posts: 9907 Joined: Dec 13^th, 2006	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #5 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 9:27pm	Print Post
	Looks a fun place. Nice pics Mrs DG.

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MADNESS. Ex Member	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #6 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 9:35pm	Print Post
	tone my grandad had a house out there to since the early 1920's we use to walk out to nine pin from his place and fish out there a bit to also use to walk around the rocks from little huia and camp in the flax above the rocks for a couple of days living on fish over the open fire we would set the net off the rangers house out from the concet slabs and load up on mullet for bait those were the days


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Tone Forum Font Offline Papamoa Posts: 2714 Location: Taupo Joined: Dec 14^th, 2006 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #7 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 9:42pm	Print Post
	Yeah they were. Once Phil Sharp sold the lease to the lodge, all the batch owners had to leave . Some great memories tho.


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dannyboy Donor Member Offline Posts: 1921 Location: B.O.P Joined: Nov 10^th, 2006 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #8 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 9:59pm	Print Post
	dad used to take me fishing out at Whatipu all the time used to fish to the left at the end of the track and go through the hole in the rock to the other side he got some big kinges off the rocks we would go in the club comps they had out there once i one the kids comp shit i thought i was cool still got the cup they gave me good place out there wild west

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Duck Gunner Global Forum Guide Offline www.FishNhunt.co.nz Posts: 3091 Location: South Auckland Joined: Nov 8^th, 2006 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #9 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 10:08pm	Print Post
	We will have to get some photos out there on a bad day. Wild Wild West


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Weathered Online Forum Guide Donor Member Staff Offline Amor Fati Posts: 5798 Location: Speargrass Flat Joined: Nov 9^th, 2006 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #10 - Feb 27^th, 2007 at 12:00am	Print Post
	I used to dive the outside of the Whatipu main rock by the end of the old railway on the north head when I was young and stupid huge amounts of crayfish but you better run when when the tide turned. Are the Kauri floors still in the main dancing cave in under the hills behind the beach there? Cheers Weathered

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Tone Forum Font Offline Papamoa Posts: 2714 Location: Taupo Joined: Dec 14^th, 2006 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #11 - Feb 27^th, 2007 at 12:05am	Print Post
	we used to dive there too. We called it the supermarket . The Kauri floor is long gone now and no dances there for many years.


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Sako75 Forum Font Offline Posts: 8847 Location: Auckland Joined: Jan 10^th, 2007 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #12 - Mar 1^st, 2007 at 12:11am	Print Post
	I have lived out there for 12 years and never get sick of looking out the lounge window. Duck Gunner - One of the locals and a few others are getting the water taxi from Grahams beach to pick them up from Little Huia on Saterday the for overnight fish there, back Sunday. $10.00

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Duck Gunner Global Forum Guide Offline www.FishNhunt.co.nz Posts: 3091 Location: South Auckland Joined: Nov 8^th, 2006 Gender:	Re: The notorious Manukau Bar Reply #13 - Mar 2^nd, 2007 at 9:09pm	Print Post
	I have been thinking of getting the water taxi to take a group of us to the cake for a day.


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