I really love this time of year for fishing (Winter with it’s more consistent weather and fishing). It usually starts in May but this year it is late and I hope it lasts longer because of this! The bait has moved in en-masse with the cooler water and the workups are going off at the moment with the big snapper underneath. Not only are the big snapper under these workups ...

There is a huge area of bait (anchovy and small pilchards) sitting about 2nm-4nm North Nor-east of gannet rock off the bottom end of Waiheke. What is surprising, is the dolphins haven’ found it yet (or as of Tuesday last week). We have been fishing the area for about a week and waiting patiently for the mammals to arrive and round it up. As the bait is widely dispersed and ...

The temperature has dropped and with it the wind it seems? Some of you will not like this seasonal event, but I love it for fishing in the gulf. The weather is more settled with crisp cool sunny days and the bigger fish will be around the abundance of bait.

In the last week or so we have been heading up towards just south of Little Barrier fishing the lumps that ...

After waiting and waiting and waiting, finally the pilchard workups have started in the gulf. There has been a huge drop in temperature which I am sure you have noticed over the last few days. This has dropped the water temp as well and it is around 16-17 degrees now (was 20 last week). This drop in temperature means more food comes in and all the predators follow.

Yesterday we found ...

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 ...

The fishing has been strange and I believe the season is one to one and a half months behind. The sea temp is still around 20 degrees which means the fishing is good in close and out wide, but the fish out wide have been smaller than you would expect at this time of year. The good new is that this is changing and we can expect to see the ...