Fishing Reports

Hi All

It has been a while since we put up a charter report, it is fair to say the fish have kept us very, very busy for the last month and a bit!  

The fishing has just been insane at times.

We've had plenty of freight trains over the 30k mark landed over that time, most on livebaits but the best this 36.5 kg kingfish pictured opposite by Anthony Dimech which hit a Blue Broken Arrow jig.  Its not often you can fit three guys behind a kingfish and still make it look big but this was one hell of a fish that had Ants in all sorts of trouble!

The trip before saw a bunch of relatively new anglers top 100 kingfish in one day.  

We left Tairua around 7am destined for the Mercury Pins and by 12pm we had released 57 kingfish all on jigs, by 3.30pm we had topped 100.  It was just awesome fishing with kings stacked up on the sounder 20m under the boat and all solid string pulling kingfish too. 

The best action has coincided with the kingfish feasting up on squid and when they've come up to the surface to feast we've had plenty of fun on poppers, stickbaits and livies cast to them, there's nothing quite like a big kingfish broaching the 

surface behind a lure like a marlin, its big mouth open about to inhale the lure!

The kingfish have been getting higher and higher in the water column and some of the hits on jigs over the last week have been right under the boat which is always a good way to test out your balance, there's been a few times I've seen both feet in the air and only some deft elbow work into the side of the boat have saved an embarassing dip!

Green and gold jigs are well and truly where it is at on the jigging front, with Katch1 spears back in favour and JM green and gold rockets also producing some very nice fish over the last week.

The 'coutta  are around everywhere in plague proportions but stopping on the right sign and getting the lures or baits to the right depth will keep you away from their toothy mouths...

All the signs are there it won't be too much longer before game season with sunfish showing up out wide (we've pulled a few kingfish off the sides of them too), gannets everywhere heading for the horizon and amongst the kingi bustups I could have sworn a few of the holes left in the water were just too big to have been kingfish.....I guess in the old days the yellowfin  would have been here by now but fingers crossed they might return this year.

In amongst the kingfish action plenty of snappers have been in on the action. These are all snapper out the deep with pointy white fangs and hell bent on devouring any livebait that gets dangled in front of them, and a nice line of snapper in the 4-7kg mark to cap off some awesome kingfish action has been the norm most trips over the last few weeks.

Most of our good snapper fishing has been out wide but the occasional day where the south easter has kept us inside Slipper fishing the inside of the washes with plenty of current has seen us get some nice fish on softbaits, other than that reports from most of the locals have been a bit grim in terms of the snapper fishing inshore.

The coast is holding plenty of JD's and the first of the summer kingfish, so a livebait in around the bait schools is about as sure a bet to some action if you are looking for a feed close to home.

If you are looking to get amongst some awesome fishing action through December have a look at our calendar

http://www.epicadventures.co.nz/availability.html

There are a few spots over the next couple of weeks, and plenty of summer spots still there but they will fill pretty quick now the weather gods are smiling and everyone wants to get in on the action.

All the best

Carl and Tobez

Epic Adventures

www.epicadventures.co.nz