Patience can be essential when casting lures. Some days are red hot, and others, hours between bites. Luckily, we don’t encounter too many slow days, but when we do, we keep to the game plan, trust our instincts and fish hard. If all the right factors are present. You know the target species will lurk …
Patience, massive snapper and personal best fish for Daz. Read More »
It’s always exciting getting a new boat, and this one was in the making for about 12 months. It was always going to be a centre console and fibreglass, with so little on the NZ market in the way of fibreglass centre consoles. My sights turned to Australia, where fibreglass centre consoles are well advanced …
New Boat, Massive Snapper and a Red Hot Sunset!! Read More »
Hitting the road to a new destination always fills me with a sense of adventure; fishing in a new location makes a trip that much more exciting, and the anticipation of what you are going are you catch increases tenfold. Hapuku, along with snapper, is my favourite species; however, with my current boat downsized to …
Hapuku time!! A new destination in glass-out conditions. Read More »
With one of the wettest and windy springs in recent memory, you’ve got to be Johnny on the spot if you want to get out on the salt and into some fish. Spring is our favourite time to fish, and you’ve got a chance at a big fish every time you go out. Kingfish, snapper, …
Whales, mako sharks, & big snapper!! Hauraki Gulf was on fire. Read More »
I’d wanted to go fishing with Derrick Gerritsen since he set up his charter business – Big Fish BOI, several years ago. And after selling my boat and waiting for a new one to arrive, this seemed like the perfect time to hit the road and head north. Derrick runs his fishing charter business in …
Head north young man in search of massive snapper!! Read More »
Who doesn’t like trying new lures? In this case, some old Gulp! Classics released in new colours. When Berkley releases a new lure or intends to, they often turn up in my letter box before they hit the shop shelves, which means one thing. Time to go fishing! After putting in thousands of casts in …
I love it when new lures come in the mail, and the legends at Pure Fishing always have new exciting potential products for the NZ & Australian markets to send my way for testing. And I’m not sure there is a better time of year to go fishing than Spring; everything comes to life in Spring, …
The Hauraki Gulf explodes with massive workups! Big Snapper! Read More »
The legends at Pure Fishing wanted a trip out to catch some hapuku and smash some snapper on the way back in. Plans were afoot. This was going to be a big day with an early start and a late finish. The lads were frothing for this trip! It took a few weeks for a …
Hauraki Gulf turns it on! With a glass out day, big hapuku and XXL snapper! Read More »
It’s no secret NZ waters don’t have the luxury of variety when it comes to fish that pull line. Inshore species, we have very few. If there were one species I wish grew larger and more abundant in NZ waters, it would be the trevally. Pound for pound, it’s arguably more brutal than kingfish, and …
Trevally, The Black Panther of the Hauraki Gulf!! Read More »
The quality and bounty offered by the Hauraki Gulf always amaze me. Today, with only an afternoon session available, we chucked the surf casters and Kontiki in the car and drove to one of our best beaches. With glistening white sands, a light easterly swell with a light, albeit cold wind at our backs. Date …
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