As you may know I sometimes work as a skipper for FishnDips Charters. Last Saturday we drove all around the gulf looking for bigger snapper and tried many likely areas that have worked well in the past at this time of year. We tried west and east of Anchourite, the 50mtr contours, south of the Pidgeons (Gt Barrier), Channel Is. And Square Top Is. (Colville), and all down the Coromandel ...

As you will know the snapper fishing has been hard over the past month for lure fishing due to the fish being in spawning mode. It is very frustrating when you find the workups and can see the snapper underneath them, yet the bite is very tentative to nonexistent. Even when you do catch fish they seem to be the smaller models around 30-40cm max. The bite times are there ...

Well the fishing up here in the Far North has just got better & better with lots of good solid fish to be had in as little as 2m of water making it very accessible to even the smallest of boats.

I’m finding that the Snapper are staying close to the fowl rather than feeding out on the open sand so moving around a little till you find the fowl will ...

The weather has been calm lately, which means we had a great time getting in the middle of the sea to catch as many fish as we could.

Every day there was a feast of fish, and Friday was no exception.

I felt privileged to be invited by Maxim to ride on his Stabicraft 759 Super Cab. We had a couple of trial runs while putting her into charter.

While I thought of ...

My wife planned a family trip to Bangkok City to experience a different culture and indulge herself in its mega shopping malls. My mind started ticking away, thinking about fishing. Was it possible in this mega-metropolis? I very much doubted it. So, unbeknownst to my wife, I was a little disappointed. In the past we have traveled to tropical islands where I usually found ...

Author: Nik Key (Snap)

Last 24th of July, I graced Fish ‘N Dip charters with the company of good friends, with super competitive fisherman Paul Senior and Mark Kitteridge. That day, we were to take some marketing photos and videos of the beautiful playground we have been gifted in the gulf. We departed P21 at a leisurely hour of 8am and headed towards the Coromandel Pennisula in glassy conditions, which could ...