The bottom end of Waiheke Island seems to hold a good quantity of snapper at this time of Year. Most of these fish are nice fat pannies in the 35-45cm range, but every now and again you will hit a group of bigger fish. With this in mind I decided to venture down to an area that holds fish SSE of Shag rock (Tarahiki). We decided on a drift starting ...

Got invited out on a mates boat today, 5.8m Surtees, so hatched a plan to fish around Ponui as I know it holds fish this time of the year & did pretty well there a couple of weeks back.

So checked the forecast, Southerly 10 knots, OK not ideal but hey lets give it a whirl.
So left Kawakawa Bay around 9ish to catch the last of the outgoing.
Once ...

Fished out the back of Ponui Island today for a very nice bin of fat heathy Snapper, man are they in good nick, hard fighting fish, bloody good fun on light gear, I use 6lb main with 10lb leader, maybe a bit light for in around the rocks but I find it gives the softies a better action in shallow water.

Got on the water for the last hour of the outgoing ...