Not really any surface schools of tuna where we hooked up like outside 100m, water was 20.5 deg still in bluewater but not far from green stuff

Any of you guys been out lately. Am thinking of maybe putting togeather a flying visit to the Kings if the fish start to show up. Any one heard whats going on up there (Kings ) and what about the Hokianga, they seem to be fairly quiet, any action??

shot out manukau yesterday  bit of a swell on the bar all good headed up the 50 m line to piha  where the skippys were waitin  tried headin wider but got baron with no birdlife or bait so back to 53 m where the concentration of skippys were still jumpin , loaded up on these for a good suply of winter bait and with only one tailer havin a nosy ( just saw the top of its fin zeroing in on the lures which looked quite narrow so prob a mako ) decided to have an anchor up umongst the skippys and see if we could pull some snaps .left the out riigger lures dangling in case a stickface showed up but alas a dirty ol mako had me hurredly haulin em back in ! no snaps but plenty of horse kahawai for a bit of a play and raw fish .another boat was workin the same depth behind the bar with similar results ,when we were comin back in a cuple of boats were headin out for the night and a looksie on sunday . water temp only got to 20 . 2deg not blue either

That's a hell haul of skippies Ski , nice work 

hit manukau yesterday and heard on sat that "hotspot" and "discardo" were out at the 60 with heaps of bait but no bills, so we decided to go and chase a warm patch at the 150 from piha but with no temp gauge we couldn't tell so we went to the back of the bar slightly south at the 110, we spotted a big tree, as we approached a big ass mahi jumped clean out of the water. did a few passes then cleared the gear and towed a bait for 20 mins it was my turn so i was fizzing! but nothing.
set the gear and now its brent's turn and at the 106 i spotted a fish in the gear, it hit the left SC three times to go to the LR and popped it out and dropped it again, came back had a swipe with it's bill, backed off and then it came in at full speed as it did, dev cranked the reel to give it more action and it hit and turned 180 and we were on!
30 mins it was in the boat.
 a big thanks to dev and brent for a bloody good day and to the boys on "titan"and "game on 2" for the entertainment as normal and to a top bloke ben francis on "elma j" who came down to the ramp to meet us with the scales which was borrowed from ken on "reel screamer" thanks guys!
the fish went 96kg i think was a bit dizzy at that stage
bring on the small boats    

Well done Brian an awesome effort there

Awesome Kingie69     a better result after the Dorado gave you the flip.

Bad luck Ski.  Next time mate.  Think we are both due eh.

We took the 5.5m Stabi for a run across the Manukau Bar this morning. The conditions were not great with a bit of wind and some big swells to contend with.

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