Just back from a week at Denerau. Not a fishing holiday, a break with the mrs, but did manage to get out on a charter and cast a few poppers off the rocks. Fished with Nadi Fishing Charters - good guys who tried hard but gear quality and approach was a bit shabby by NZ standards. We steamed about 40 mins from Denerau Marina and cast some poppers around an outer reef system (nothing at all), and nothing on a 40min troll back either. They said that Asian longliners have basically cleaned the area out of yellowfin. Spent some time fishing rocks later in the week, but again nothing. Maybe I struck a bad moonphase or something, but got the impression that the area is pretty hammered and basically gave up on the fishing in the end.

Reminds me of a half day charter I did from Musket Cove (about 10 years ago.) We turned up at the jetty at the appropriate hour but there was no sign of the skipper or vessel. The radio hut said they had run out of diesel so they had sent a long boat out with a 200L drum and the longboat had run out of petrol, so they radioed another game boat to rescue both the game boat and the longboat. When they finally got back to the dock (some 2 hours late) and proceeded to fill up with diesel - I noticed the fuel guage and in fact all the guages on the helm had been smashed?! I happened to know the people on the earlier charter - 4 very unhappy punters; it turns out they had run out of fuel ON THE WAY OUT!!! And as they had no fuel and were too deep to anchor they had to bob around in a very sloppy sea for several hours before rescue. Although they did manage to pick up a wahoo on the way home...

not for me mate, was there end of september and went out with malolo fisher sports and i madse a video, see for yourselves

Spinoza wrote: not for me mate, was there end of september and went out with malolo fisher sports and i madse a video, see for yourselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCl54Tk-hZc

interesting Spinoza, i went out with Bob a month ago and he couldn't have given less of a $hit about the anglers onboard, and even told me he was sick of taking punters fishing. Bit of a joke attitude. Good to see that he can produce the goods at times judging by your vid.