Headed out on Friday morning with a couple of mates to check out the spring workup action that has been happening along the east coast up to Kauwau. Decided that we would leave at a gentlemans hour of 9.30am (it was supposed to be an afternoon bite time around midday on-wards). We found our first workup just before Tiri channel around 10am. This was full of big KY and pan sized ...

Sunday morning was looking like a nice day to get some mates out for a fish. SE winds meant that it would be touch and go regarding getting a feed (south = close mouth and east = least so put them together)? There were heaps of Dolphins feeding with small work ups all along the northern side of Waiheke. We stopped for a look but there were no snappers under ...

Sunday was one out of the box with light warm winds and flat seas. I decided to head out to the Noisies and surrounding islands and reefs for a look around (alot of other people had the same idea). Today was a day of testing and I had one of Ocean Anglers new reels and matched Gravity rod to try out.

I found a good lump of pannies hard on the ...

The boys winter trip to Lil barrier was planned and hatched. Stayed at a mates batch in Point Wells and headed over in 20KntSW winds.

Saturday – Al gets a nice JD on the Lime Pickles Jitterbug (I have now seen 4 JD’s caught on this particular jig – 3 to myself fishing the wiorkups)

Found a likely looking spot for a big bait and burly session. The kelpies soon started ...

It was raining but the wind was down so decided to have a quick fish off Taka Cliffs on Sunday. Wind and tide lined up for the outgoing tide and I had a huge burly trail dispersing towards Takapuna boat ramp in no time at all. I was using my little PowerFlex soft baiting rod with fresh squid bait and my first cast was hit by a nice 50cm snapper.

Looked like a weather window on Sunday so grabbed some mates and headed out at 8.30am from Te Atatu. Destination was the bottom end of Waiheke Island looking at heading over to Coromandel Harbour to have a nosey.

Fished the same area as a couple of weeks ago south of shag over the lumpy bits with an outgoing tide. Picked up a bin full of nice fat pannies on ...