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Big winter snapper and trevally
The Hauraki Gulf is going off at the moment with insane winter fishing. The weather gods have been kind and we have been having some amazing sunny winters days with hardly any wind and flat seas. This means we can go real wide and find the areas holding better fish!
There has been huge pilchard gannet and dolphin workups around the western side of Great Barrier Island for the last 2 ...
A great mix of soft and hard fishing
We are getting some nice weather windows lately and I thought I would make the most of the last one with a trip to the Great Barrier. We had a quick stop at the 50mtr mark and started filling the bin with 40-50cm snapper to take the pressure off if fishing wasn’t that good out wider.
This was unnecessary, as the fishing out wider was phenomenal! Around 4-5nm north of Lil ...
Which soft-bait lead-head?
Who’d have thought that a lump of lead attached to a hook would be so important to fishing success? Well, to be a truly good soft-baiter you really do need to give this aspect plenty of consideration! In addition to selecting the lightest weight lead-head that will get down in the prevailing conditions, you should take other aspects into account, including the lead-head’s shape and the coating used ...
Hey fellow fishos. I know you will be getting excited with the big pilchard workups happening now (and for the next month or so)! We have been heading straight to an area east and nor east of Anchorite that is absolutely full of raining gannets, mammals and of course big snapper. The aerial displays and friendly mammals makes the awesome fishing just so much better, as it gets the Adrenalin ...