After 2 days we went to Tutukaka, the more I visit this place the more I love it too. It was quite a blow the first day. But the second we managed to get to the poor knights for a free dive, wow this place is nuts with the amount of bump head snaps, the look like SA aussie snaps. The most amount of huge trevally I have seen, mao mao I didnt know could grow that big, and of course the huge ings cruising and schools of midsize. Apparently the Snaps have become the apex predator due to a lack of bronzies. Not sure how true that is, but I didnt see a shark which is a bit odd. Saw some vessels parked up inside the channel between the 2 islands, you have to be sure your chart plotter is accurate, I think its about 600m of leeway. I read on the net one guy got a 25k fine for fishing in the zone so id just be out of it completely.

Anyway, overall, despite a lot of wind and swell, it was a really fun trip just to visit the far north again, love it up there. Didnt shoot much fish but did see some really awesome fish in the marine reserve so its not always about how many but what you saw. :-)