Its 5am Saturday morning and let's be honest here, none of us got any shut eye as we were just too excited for what lied ahead. Loaded up and Coffee poured back as if it was the first beer after a long week at work. Cars loaded and back on the road for the final 40 mins before the boarding process was to begin. Then what do you know some more dam excitement... This time we are pursuing the other crew that were in front of us. They stop in a stupid halt for some unknown reason... I scream at Kelly and she applies the anchors. You feel the ABS kick in however this is not enough. She swerves to the left off the road and ends up beside the front car avoiding a near rear ending and then there it is... I huge heard of Bulls are walking down a drive way and straight across the road with no one to be seen???? We were dam lucky and quite frankly just wanted to get some much needed rail time. So we end up at Hicks bay and board Strictly Fishing.

We start the nice leisurely cruise out to the Banks at 20-25 knots. The conditions were not ideal but forecast to die off just after lunch (which they did).

Right time for some fish. Basically the Jigs just went off. From the moment we deployed we were just getting hammered left right and centre. Kelly gets her first drop. On the way down i turn to the decky and say  "bro watch this, she will smash it, she will hookup". Ol Mikey just says "okay" (just like the guy on the drink driving add where they say "just crash here bro"). So first drop produced a  PB Puka on a Jig (which didn't last long). The next three drops I said to Mikey watch her bro she will get one every time. And what do you know 3 kingfish straight after the Puka.

^ Kelly just lands her Puka and boom smashed hahaha... 

Then I was up and straight into a test it was for me, a nice king to get me warmed up. So this hit the deck and the kings kept coming along with the PUKA.

All the boys had Kings coming then I was locked into a beauty. However this time it was not charging like a king. Around 20 meters to go... pop pop pop and bang here is this monster PUKA on a nice purple curved slidder (my favourite jig).

Next was Kels turn and the heat was on for her. With alot of Puka hitting the deck this had to be a PUKA. She locked the rod and just gave it to the fish. The decky "ol Mikey" leans over and says "far bro, she is better than most guys that come on this boat", classic. The there it was her next new PB of a Puka on another Jig.

Nathan from Auckland had then hooked a horse... We thought this was going to be a horse of a BASS. after 20 minutes he had it to the boat... A dam Stingray. O for awesome.

We then moved on to chase some King Terraki for a while where we all got to land these. So we landed a few of these wee pups.

The time was getting on we only had around 2 hours of fishing left and it was game time for some BASS. So we geared up the TLD 50s and went for it. We did something like 8 passes picking up Puka every pass. We ended up dropping a solid fish. We fought this for 45 minutes to only lose it.

Anyway on the final pass we had a solid double header and a BASS on another rod. Sarge and Mikey were determined to make this stick. They did everything in their power to make this stick as the last fish we dropped that Sarge called as a HORSE BASS was lost due unforeseen circumstances that meant Sarge, Mikey and Myself had to attend to for 30 mins (we won't mention what this was). So anyway after 20 minutes on the final pass up popped a mint BASS to really seal our trip.

We cannot say enough good words about Sarge, the Boat, the Decky, the atmosphere, their attitude, their knowledge, their professionalism with a touch of Moari thrown in. They really have it sussed and HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you get in touch with Sarge and book a trip with them to the BANKS. We are already trying to sort the next one with him.

Cheers Aaron, Kelly and I had a flaming awesome time and are itching to get back and 1 up everything.

Stay tuned anyway guys and girls we will have a clip coming however i have 60 gig of footage to get through. We have tones more photos but have been sitting here for around 2 hours writting and loading this up.

Cheers