...speaking to Boulder earlier and he was whoopin' an'a hollering about a nice king that he'd just boated....carpenter this, stella that, action this....30min brawl....fish being weighed for his club....the photo i have indeed shows a nice chunky one.....will let koro fill in the gaps.

Good work big fulla.....hopefully grab one of those tomorrow.

Wicked...well dont that man...Thats up there with marx fish.....will wait for the pics

Oh no, that'll double the amount of gear Boulder carts around now that he's got the top water bug.

Top effort, thats a nice sticky fish.

  Well done, that sounds like a lot fun.

good on yeah Boulder, nice fish from the surface....
30mins sounds a bit like your a pussy on the winding...

bugger wrote a report and the lappy farted and lost it
anyway we planned a top water trip to Maunganui for a few days and on the first day I got bugger all while Steve after swiping my only chrome bottom ship caught us snapper and jd,s for tea
Second day we towed the boat to Whangaroa to fish Taheke and the cav,s Taheke was again a bit of a fizzer so we went into the tea pot to toss some surface baits around. After about 50 casts a huge hole appeared behind my lure and it was serious Game On. Steve in the light tackle style they use at the tea pot gunned for the deeper water to give me a chance and all I could do was watch the colours pour off the reel.


finally after a fair bit of sweating and grunting we landed a nice king that was too heavy for me to hold up as I was knackered


Back at the weigh station in Whangaroa I was surprised to see the 30kg scales bottom out
 

Out came the big scales and they showed the weight at 32.4kg . I was well pleased as this is my pb on top water and the second fish over 30 on that same set.
after landing that fish we stopped and got some nice snapper on sb for out tea of fish and chips again

great weather at the close of play and a top weekend for me
Thanks to Swordfish Steve for showing me around his part of the north.