Fishing Reports

 

The length of time since the last report is a fair indication of fishing activity over the last month. Bad weather continues to plague us, and with most of our forward planning focused on broadbill, life has been a bit frustrating!!! The single successful day we have completed, since we last reported resulted in two hookups on the day, drifting. But both fish 'got lucky', although one had to battle for over 10 hours, before the line broke at the double on 37kg line. In all that time we never got to see the fish, but we had the drag set over the button, on what later tested at 15kg of drag, for over 6 hours of the fight, so we're convinced it was a pretty good sort of a fish. Our longest previous fight with a broadbill on 37kg tackle has been 6.5 hours , with a lady angler on a 260kg fish!!! The hardy souls who have been fishing the Three Kings, have been catching marlin quite regularly, with most of the action seeming to come from the King Bank. We're waiting for the weather to clear for a couple of hapuka charters, but reports from both commercial and recreation fishermen indicate plenty of activity out on the usual spots around the 200M line. Kingies have been supplying consistent light game activity, with best action at Cape Brett, and 71M Reef. We were having some great days at Rocky Point, but the barracoutta have moved in over the last week or so. We have also been fishing the Cavallis, but our best activity up that end has been on Taheke reef, and very few of those fish have made much more than 8kg. Best of the snapper fishing remains in the deep water around Bird Rock, though weather has forced most of our fishing action to shift to the broken foul area between Longbeah and Roberton island, which is producing consistent catches of very healthy pan snapper, but very few really big fish. As always, drop me a line at MAJOR.TOM@xtra.co.nz if you have any questions

 

From Major Tom II

Report type: Saltwater

Report date: 20 June 02