I love this time of the year when the inner harbour starts firing with an abundance of hungry fish and the occasional big one as well. I often keep this spot for the end of the day after we have been wide on my charters. At this time of the year it can be hit and miss out wide, so it is always good to have a backup plan.

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The spring workups are in full swing now with large areas of the gulf producing some exceptional snapper fishing.The pilchards are getting rounded up and smashed by dolphins, gannets, kahawai, kingfish, snapper and humans! I believe we are in for an outstanding spring workup season this year. Please show respect for others and learn how to fish the workups so that you and others catch fish! Here is an article I wrote ...

Over the past 2-3 weeks I have been watching the bait getting denser and denser as I get closer to Auckland. The water temperature has stayed up and it looks like we will have a late season. With this in mind and also the fact that people have started squidding around Auckland a plan was hatched.

I talked my mate John Kite (Squid) into getting off work early to make ...

The cooler weather has arrived and the water temperature has dropped from 26 degrees Celsius to 22 degrees and lower. This means the workups become more intense and concentrated and the snapper become hungrier as they bulk themselves up for Winter! It also means the snapper get bigger!

The wind has been a problem this year with the El Niño weather patterns. It has made it quite difficult to get ...

Wash fishing with Softbaits has to be one of the most productive & exciting ways to catch big Snapper & with all the Easterly winds we have been having up here lately  (Far North, Whangaroa) there are plenty of top spots with good wash (waves or swells breaking on or over rocks).

I have been doing a lot of this sort of fishing lately & catching some very nice ...

This weekend was the start of something good I hope! Fickle fish have left us frustrated over the last 2 months

The fishing was outstanding with lots of legal Kingfish and snapper one day and bigger snapper at the same spot the next. On Saturday we made our way to Anchorite  early in the morning and worked our big jigs for 7 kingfish. We found the best and legal ones drifting through ...