News
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 ...
Fishing during the spawning period.
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 ...
The weather definitely affects the fishing and I am finding the good sized fish in a lot closer now as the water temp goes up. During the spring there was a lot of wind due to the 2015 El Nino and this meant our drifts were faster. To assist in these conditions we were using 2 drogues and 130-200gr jigs. We found that the bigger jigs were getting down faster ...
Solid Snapper in the Far North.
Well the fishing up here in the Far North has just got better & better with lots of good solid fish to be had in as little as 2m of water making it very accessible to even the smallest of boats.
I’m finding that the Snapper are staying close to the fowl rather than feeding out on the open sand so moving around a little till you find the fowl will ...
More big snapper on 130gr jigs
Whilst the workups are very enticing we have found the best snapper fishing away from them. Sometime the birds are only good to follow to find the bait and once you find the bait it is better to stick with it than to chase the workups.
Over the past couple of weeks we have been fishing 2 areas. The first is over Coromandel way about 2-3 miles out from Fantail bay. ...
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 ...