Fishing Reports

The Albacore tuna have arrived on the west and the south coasts these last 2 weeks. I have had reports of some good catches with numbers of fish present some days then sparse fishing on other days. Anyway get your lures, jigs and baits ready and give it a crack. All you need to do is find the bluewater or birds working in water deeper than 75mtrs and troll some lures (8 knots), speed jig or strayline baits. So far the fish are averaging 6kgs but that could change over the next few weeks. I have heard of fish up to 30kg caught but this is yet to be confirmed. We caught an 8ker off Sinclair Head this week in 17 degrees

Snapper and kingfish continue to be in good numbers on the West coast and Wgtn Harbour. Chris Shepherd fro17m ''Anti Ants'' caught his 1st snapper - a 20lber at the Makara fenceline with us on Melicent on Saturday evening.

Point Jenningham and Halswell continue to be kingi hotspots and Ward Island and Eastborne are the good snapper spots. A 16lb snapper was caught around Ward on Sunday morning.
The Puka have come back on the bite after the big tides of two weeks ago. Fishermans, Makara and the back of mana are all producing fish up to around 20kg

We hooked another 6-8 kingis last sunday off the sth coast and landed one 15kg and one 30kg. The bluenose are back at the trench - both sides and the 78mtr (westcoast) rise has been going off on the puka. Snapper are still around most spots in harbour and on the west coast. Albacore tuna are wide of Mana and Kapiti and buttefly tuna have been caught too. Chris Shepard with a 20lb snapper caught on Melicent at Makara recently