Author: Michael Jenkins

It’s not often these days that I’ll fish with bait on the rocks, but there are some locations where fishing with softbaits and lures isn’t really an option. These are shallow snaggy areas which are no more that 2-3m deep at the end of your casting range, and you’re standing at water level. In these locations lures become very difficult to fish, I’ve tried and failed numerous ...

Paul Senior explains the best techniques for the JITTERBUG lure

It was a fresh crispy clear Autumn day in Auckland and with the mounting reports of amazing workup action, it did not take too much persuasion to get a crew together to hit the action zone.
Millions of Pilchards, thousands of Gannets, hundreds of Dolphins, a couple of Whales and you have the recipe for some fast and furious Haurauki Gulf action.

The workups were still happening between the Elbow and ...

Fished out the back of Ponui Island today for a very nice bin of fat heathy Snapper, man are they in good nick, hard fighting fish, bloody good fun on light gear, I use 6lb main with 10lb leader, maybe a bit light for in around the rocks but I find it gives the softies a better action in shallow water.

Got on the water for the last hour of the outgoing ...