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Well I have been away for a couple of months and it looks like I missed all the bad weather (although the wind looks like it is going to be with us all spring).
It sounds like the fishing has been good when people could get out and the workups never stopped throughout winter. There have been some amazing workups down in the firth as the bait gets trapped down there ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fishing during the spawning period.
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 ...
How to catch more fish on Soft baits
We have created a series of videos, to help you catch more fish on softbaits. Softbaiting is a great way to catch fish, its a lot of fun and once you get ir right you will be catching more fish than ever before. Check out our series of videos to help you crack the code.
How to slow your drift speed down using a sea anchor
Check out what we have come up with to stop your boat being blown around by the wind. When you need a sea anchor for fishing we recommend you get a larger fishing chute than most retailers recommend, due to the fact that in our experience bigger is always better for catching more fish. A sea anchor or drogue as it is commonly called is a critical item required when ...