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 ...

Lately we have been finding vast areas of anchovies and filling up the bins with KY and even the odd legal Kingfish or 3. Even more recently we have been catching Skip Jack Tuna among the mayhem (anchovy bait balls getting harvested by birds and bigger fish)! I believe this is due to the El Nino weather patterns and extremely warm weather and therefore warmer than usual seas. The northerly winds ...

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 ...

After chasing the workups around for the past couple of months I decided to try something different. We fished the 50 mtr mark just NE of Anchorite about 2 weeks ago and hit the bonanza with great size fish and no one else to spoil the fun. A lot of these fish had been eating flounder/sole like creatures and were spewing them up in the boat.

The next time ...