Uncovering a whole new winter game fishery in Waihau Bay, New Zealand - a successful road trip to chase Southern Bluefin Tuna
Read MoreFiordland 2016 - A Trip of a Lifetime
Flying into Fiordland is about as close as you come to time travel. As our helicopter floated through the mist into Dusky Sound it was like we had travelled back 20,000 years....
Read MoreImpromptu Autumn Fishing Trip to Opito Bay
Opito Bay would rate as my favourite place in the world. I got to escape back there for some quality time on the water with the kids and good mate Dion over the last week
Read More3 Days, 3 Marlin including the Kid's First Marlin
3 days that will be etched in the memory banks for ever. Seeing the kids catch their first marlin out of Tairua.
Read MoreFebruary Striped Marlin Action - Tairua 2016 including Nationals week
A nice patch of striped marlin turned up wide of Red Mercury. Carl kicked February off with one solo then had a ball getting into some more with his mates.
Read MoreChasing Black Marlin in Cairns with Team Pies
The dream trip to Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef for Pies 40th, with all 8 boys getting into Black Marlin to 850lb
Read MoreChasing Spring Hapuka - A great afternoon of it out of Tairua!
Paul and Carl took off for an afternoon at it chasing hapuka - and found some nice ones close to Tairua
Read MoreLighting up the RH620
Pimping out the RH620 with some cool lighting from Lumitec
Read MoreTonga Trip 2015
I'm just back from an awesome first ever trip to Vava'u Tonga with a great bunch of fellas! We got into Blue Marlin, sailfish, yellowfin and wahoo with Cascade Charters. What a great adventure
Read MoreKingfish Jigging, Bluenose Dropping & some black gold!!
Great couple of days on the water jigging kings, deep dropping for big bluenose and gathering a nice feed of paua - maybe winters not so bad :-)
Read MoreBluenose mission
Trip out wide with the boys chasing bluenose for dinner on the TZ Touch
Read MoreFuruno Marine Electronics
If you want to find fish - you need Furuno!
Read MoreCarpenter Lures
It doesn't get much better than seeing big fish eat lures right in front of you. And when it comes to top water fishing for kingfish they don't come much better than Carpenter Lures
Read MoreBonze Lures
When it comes to marlin lures you can't go past Bonze Lures!
Read MoreAutumn Fishing with the Family
There are plenty of nice fish at the moment in close to Tairua. Carl and the family have been getting out and having a ball.
Read MorePaul's First Marlin!
Good times this week with Paul landing his first striped marlin - and doing it the hard way - on 15kg! And scoring a new club record in the process - choice! The Bonze D Shackle on shotgun producing the goods again
Read MoreAwesome Week of Gamefishing - Team Tairua Butchery Nationals 2015.
What a great week of game fishing with good mates! Tairua was ON this week and we came away with 2 swordfish, a crazy day that produced 3 stripeys, plus we managed 3 stripeys on 15kg, short bill spearfish and mahimahi. Good times!
Read MoreChristening the Provider!
Paul and Carl got out and christened Provider with some nice fat kingfish, crays and scallops
Read More100pd Hapuka and a mean day out with good mates
A great day out with Tony and Owen with a bin full of nice eating hapuka and some tasty scallops
Read MoreA mean feed to celebrate a great man!
A week of fishing, diving and the eventual five course seafood meal to celebrate the life of a great man
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