Three magic days at the Mercs, diving and fishing, and feasting on Coromandel goodness!
Read MoreFamily Fishing Weekend at the Mercury Islands with the Kids
An awesome weekend away at Great Mercury Island fishing and diving
Read MoreAwesome Spring Kingfish Jigging and Top Water Action
This week the flick got switched and the Coromandel kingis hit feast mode. We had three awesome days chasing them on stickbaits and jigs at Mayor and the Aldies.
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Good Times at the 2018 Trifecta
Two days of awesome fishing for kingfish, snapper and hapuku in the Trifecta fishing competition.
Read MoreThe Perfect Day Out Wide Deep Dropping for Bluenose & Bass
Just back from an awesome day out wide chasing bluenose and bass in the deep with Ryan, Tom and Darryn.
Read MoreWinter Deep Water Fishing
Right now it is prime time for hapuku and they have been on the bite on recent charters, check out more in this report
Read MoreGood Day on the Hapuku
A great day out wide with some long time clients
Read MoreAwesome Autumn Action with the Ozzie Boys
A week of awesome kingi and snapper fishing with some great blokes from Oz
Read MoreOut Wide with Clarke Gayford and Fish of the Day
Good mate Mike Bhana and his sidekick and Clarke Gayford have been talking with me about getting out wide and filming a show for their TV series Fish of the Day for about a year.
Finally I saw a window that worked for everyone and we had a plan!
The plan was the run North and fish wide of Cuvier for Bluenose and hopefully we would get into some bass as well.
We picked a cracker of a day!
This was Clarke’s last outing before he was in lock down mode, his partner Jacinda is running for prime minister this weekend! He made the most of it first drop!
Next up, target species!
One of the things I love about deep water fishing is that you never know what you are going to get, we caught about six different species of fish through the day.
Final drop was called and Scott hooked into a real decent fish - and boom - a monster of a bass about 50kg.
Back to land for a big old fillet session on the Trailor Made heavy duty fillet bench and of course we had to fire up the BBQ and scoff some fresh fish in wide bread - just nectar!
Scallop Diving, Hapuku and Kingi Fishing on Provider
Just two mates having an awesome day out!
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Impromptu 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 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 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 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
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