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Z-man HeroZ - Kicking butt!

Z-man HeroZ - Kicking butt!

These big bad boys have been knocking over some big snapper and ripper kings in recent times; you can either fish them the standard Ocean Angler way for trophy snapper on soft-bait gear, adding them to our long-shank Lightbulbs (or...

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Big winter snapper and trevally

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 ...

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A great mix of soft and hard fishing

A great mix of soft and hard fishing

As you will have seen from the recent videos and live broadcasts, Paul Senior and I headed up to the Far North last week and enjoyed a great time with snapper-fishing legend and charter skipper (Houhora Fishing Charters) Rob Parker last week, despite reasonably tough conditions (for there) at the time. Paul was keen for me to try our latest Knife Jigs, as they have been absolutely smashing the snapper ...

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More great winter fishing

More great winter 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 ...

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Lightbulb

Lightbulb

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 ...

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Winter workups are happening!

Winter workups are happening!

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 ...

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