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One happy Pete with the best fish of the day! Team “Zeus” has been out there doing it again! Photos of huge crayfish, kingfish and snapper have been an almost daily arrival in my inbox! Not sure where these fellows go but I’ve seen them turn left at the Nine Pin and head for the Cavalli’s? Not to worry, Captain Craig heads back to the USA end of this week which will allow the fish stocks to recover! Meanwhile I’ve continued with mostly straylining in the shallows and been rewarded with a feed each time. We’ve been using skippy, kahawai...

Lilia, visiting from France, happy with her first snapper! Strayling has been producing the goods although the largest fish we have caught most days are on an unattended softbait drifting way out the back. We’ve been fishing around 10-15m and most days we catch enough for a feed although we are plagued by high numbers of undersized fish. Fortunately using the non-offset circle hooks means most are quickly and safely released. Locals Ryan and Bryon have been doing well up the Waikare inlet fishing from the shore and report at the change of tide they have landed some nice fish...

Lindi Rowe with her impressive Kingfish! The Kingfish are back! The charter operators are posting some great photos of recent catches and I weighed a nice Kingfish for Junior Lindi Rowe fishing the Nationals. A great fish at 17.7 kgs on 6kg line! The weather hasn’t been great over the past fortnight and I’ve only managed to venture out for a few short trips with little success. The Bay appears to be full of bait but not a workup to be seen which seems odd looking back at my fishing stats from previous years. I did find some great kingfish...

Noah with a nice pannie snapper for dinner that night! We had great weather over Easter and there were plenty of boats out in the Bay. I managed to get out for a morning with young Noah, who had come up from Auckland for the Easter break. While the plan to snag an impressive model sized fish didn’t eventuate, the joy and smiles produced by pannie sized fish was well worth it! There are plenty of small size pannies in the shallows and most people report being plagued by just undersized fish. I have upsized the hooks and baits to...

Nathan with a nice pannie destined for dinner at the Swordfish Club that night! To be honest, I’ve been struggling with little to show for a mornings fishing however this all changed yesterday with a great slider session in the 60m zone. The bite times from www.nzfishingnet.nz were bang on and all the crew got a fish or two including Nathan Mill visiting the Bay of Islands from Scotland. While we were fishing some skipjack tuna showed up close by so we trolled a softbait and caught a few. This has got me thinking that’s its time for a marlin...