After being stuck at work all week and watching Diversity/Damo video reports on the amazing fishing happening at the moment…I had to get out. Sunday was the pick of the weekend with 10knt (from the west) winds and a 2-4pm bite time. Left Te Atatu at 12.30pm and the further we got from Auckland the flatter the sea state became. I had a mate Eddie and two guys he works ...

Tuesday 4th November.

Wow, another magical day in the Gulf aboard Reel Time.

We had Birds dropping from the sky like kamikaze fighters, Dolphins everywhere rounding up bait, a couple of Whales doing what Whales do & to top it all off a big fat Seal wallowing around in the middle of nowhere plus of coarse lots of angry Snapper.

Cheers Greg your a bloody legend mate.

A plan was hatched to shoot out ...

Sunday was supposedly the best day of labour weekend to go fishing with light westerly winds (yeah right). Got out and it was howling about 20-25knts with a large swell. Fishing was hard with the wind and fast drift. My son and I managed a feed but it was hard work. The Zman bruised banana once again out performed all other lures and I have decided that it is a ...

Wednesday 22nd October

WOW, what a day, Birds, Dolphins, Whales & hungry Snapper, just magic.

Got the call from Greg to have another crack out wide at the work ups, so hatched a plan to leave Kawakawa Bay around mid morning.

So we set off in his boat Reel Time (6.5m Ramco) at 11 & headed for Ponui Island, stopped & had a couple of casts & picked up a small KY & ...

Left te Atatu boat ramp at 1pm with a couple of old school mates . Decided to head down the Coro Rail looking for bait and workups (straight down the Motuihe channel toward the end of the Moehau).

The area was absolutely packed with bait and sporadic gannet workups. We watched a workup go for about 15mins while we caught a few pannies around 45cm. Tried Jigs but the softbaits were ...