There is a huge area of bait (anchovy and small pilchards) sitting about 2nm-4nm North Nor-east of gannet rock off the bottom end of Waiheke. What is surprising, is the dolphins haven’ found it yet (or as of Tuesday last week). We have been fishing the area for about a week and waiting patiently for the mammals to arrive and round it up. As the bait is widely dispersed and ...

After waiting and waiting and waiting, finally the pilchard workups have started in the gulf. There has been a huge drop in temperature which I am sure you have noticed over the last few days. This has dropped the water temp as well and it is around 16-17 degrees now (was 20 last week). This drop in temperature means more food comes in and all the predators follow.

Yesterday we found ...

These SE winds seem to have slowed things down a bit but if you fish the afternoon bite they seem to come on again with an aggressive feeding frenzy! We have been heading to the top of Coromandel and the Colville channel area where the snapper seem to be in abundance at the moment. We are fishing 42-47 mtr areas and found a huge amount of snapper on a rise ...

The fishing has been strange and I believe the season is one to one and a half months behind. The sea temp is still around 20 degrees which means the fishing is good in close and out wide, but the fish out wide have been smaller than you would expect at this time of year. The good new is that this is changing and we can expect to see the ...

Huge schools of anchovies have arrived and it won’t be long until the pilchards come in as the water gets colder. This means the predators will follow and also means more consistent and larger workups.

We had a great day on 25th of March fishing huge schools of anchovies. They were hiding under the boat which meant we had a ring side seat to the Kahawai smashing through the schools over ...

Every year is different and we have found the fishing to be a bit late this year with February fishing like January and now in March it is finally becoming more consistent with the colder weather bringing the workups on.

The weather has been brilliant over the past month meaning we can go wide and enjoy a vast area to fish.

Every year is different and I think that is the magic ...