Telecaster wrote: It’s amazing how small a hole can let in heaps of water. It was literally a 5mm long crack.

A hole when out on my own is the only worry.
If it’s just me then I don’t venture too far offshore.
I’ve got a heat gun if you want to borrow it?

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Good intel on where to pick up some livies muppet
Heading up tomorrow arvo for couple days so will target the coast early for some kings then head out deeper after that to see if the snaps are still there as some good ones caught at the 40 metre mark looking at fb today
May target the farms at some point and see if they are harvesting as that can be good fun on softies I’ve found

Anyone heading out this weekend? will pop out locally for a coupe of hours early tomoz, hope there are a few about. The whole weekend looks pretty calm.

Might go sun morning to carrot patch, have 2 young boys itching to go

Not really gurnard season , They are out at 50m+ now,   they'll start coming back in late May

Nice to finally get out with you again Dan and to meet pizzaeater. After you left it pretty much died so i just went for a big paddle round Rabbit and back, couldn't find any jack macs but caught a few snapper on the trolled lure to round off the bag. Saw some big splashes so paddled over and hooked a king for it to shake the barbless hooks out when winding it back in managed to hook a 40cm snapper so not too bad of a result!

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Got home yesterday from a week at Tauranga Bay. Fished once off the bay itself, kahawai everywhere so put one out as a livie, it got chopped by a hammerhead which then followed me around waiting for me to put another delicious canapé out for it to enjoy. Launched at Hihi the next day to get out of the SE - pretty quiet in close but lots of action in around 18m, some huge kahawai around andmanaged 3 nice snapper all around 3kg.

Fished out of Taupo bay on Thursday, turned left and headed towards Cone rock watching the sounder. Got a 5kg snapper in 35m on a jig, released lots of mid 30cm snapper, and after switching to a 7” Z man redbone I got a 80cm king on the second cast, fought like a demon so a good test for the little bg2500. Brought him home for sashimi and med rare steaks on the bbq back at the campground.

nice to hear everyone hooked up....was out with a mate on his bpoat on Saturday for fishing comp around Kawau....nothing but  nursary grounds where ever we went...little snaps nothing even close to legal......couple of other teams headed to Sullivans and managed the big snaps....missed out on a Sunday fish as had to be back home early...will be keeping an eye on the weather for this weekend.