The gulf is producing some really nice kingfish at the moment. We will often spend a couple of hours each trip getting livies and deploying these and jigs on likely spots holding the green torpedoes. Some of these spots producing are the Coromandel barges, Channel Island and just in and amongst the bait! The snapper fishing is also great but not as many bigger fish like last year yet. We ...

Well the weather has kept us land based a bit in the last few weeks, but when I did get out the fishing was great! We have been fishing in close and out wide and the fishing has been good in both areas. All of our fishing had been using the slow jigs and mainly the Kabura style.

In close we have been fishing inner harbour but the muddy water from ...

Well with Labour weekend done & dusted its starting to feel like Summer has arrived up here in the Far North.

With 20deg plus days & the water temp rising, up around the 16deg mark, maybe even warmer with this Northerly blow we are having at the moment its shaping up to be a good one, well this Fisho is hopping so anyway & if the fishing of late is anything ...

written by Wayne Downer.

The legend of Rob Parker and his Far North charter operation is well known by those that long to catch that big snapper.

He’s a bloke who’s ability to catch monsters is nothing short or spectacular.

For most of us, this sort of fishing is just a dream, that magic fish eludes us for many years, for some it’s not a problem just being out there is good enough.

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Since all the hordes of boats have been going to the workups of Tiri we have decided to look for our own fishing grounds away from the hundreds of boats and cowboys who still drive through the workups. On Friday last week we were watching people chasing workups on Face Book (which my clients were pointing out), but I decided to head in the other direction out wide towards Coromandel. ...

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 ...