We're just funning Paul,
Cos his fish scratched me boat,

Gents, boat owner is a minor technicality, it is a team effort, skipper, deckie and poor mug winding that gold thing getting all hot and sweaty.

Rumour has it boat owner was welcoming fish aboard with what looked like a bat. All I could hear was a tune being drummed on side of boat. Could be possible the dents and scatches were from said boat owner as he obviously did not like the lucky lure of the day as he hit that also with such force he broke it in half.

Now let's keep what happens on the water on the water, and get back to main purpose of this thread reporting fish catches.

Was having a snapper fish behind stevies with the vhf on yesterday. Lots of action out there with 150 to 180 holding good number of strippies, was a also a blue weighed . Sure I heard right late in the day a est 180 strip marlin tag . One thing for sure it’s not like matto s post from tut . Still early days in the season . Also yellow fin being caught from doubtless bay through to the cavellis over the last 2 weeks.

few marlin around stevies to Cavalies in close, less than 100m , I was lucky tagged my Solo # 19 yesterday, awesome day, so nice and close blue 21.5deg water there, go get them boyz, cheers swordfishsteve

went north on Tuesday up to poor ks got 1 alby and lost a much bigger one things are warming up nicely in the zone saw a couple of intense workups and 3 big monster sharks around 2.5 to 3m just waiting to eat all those tagged stripeys coming down rather them than me.

Big Clap Stevo, now go and get solo no.20! 

Did The Makaira Trailer boats comp . The bite was really good before the comp , and went quiet while the comp was on . I went up out to the 180 m on the first day  off burghens -wekaroa, and stayed close on the 100m behind steveys on the second day . Lots of bait on the 100m , with skippys all over the joint . I will try and download a photo of my fish finder out at the 180 , found this bait which was right on a big current line , I live baited , jiged , towed plastic to no avail  , felt it wasnt going to surface till later in the day , this was at 10 am . Stayed with it for 2 hours . Weather was mint , comp was real good , my boy at least got a whangaroa club line  record skippy , 3.22kg on 4 kg line

Try again

Sat at anchor in the harbour,can anyone advise local vhf chat channel up here,.
Is there any update on last few days??

Cheers guys

Ynot just landed a nice yft.
Good result for his solo mission so far.