Yes I can see with my own eyes  and experience from many previous years in same area, look for the signs, feel the ocean, birds have way better vision than my old eyes, smell the Marlin, all lead to same result. Too many retards don't know how to read the signs, rely on Facebook or messenger or keyboard warriors  which is way off track, ask any of my clients & friends what is going on by fisherman who actually catch fish, not just write about it.

Yeah not really what I was Asking Steve that’s ok though.....
My question is ... is he finding it a valuable tool....?
Those fish have been off cone for a while in various numbers.
I imangine quite a few boats out there.....

I don't know either but Cone Island is Northern end of Stevies so assume that is also called cone rock by the locals. 

Just got back from whangaroa.Been up there since Saturday. Had a great time.tagged a stripy and weighed my first yellow fin.also dropped a horse of a fish after 1.5 hours.All set for a day off newplymouth tomorrow.

Did a day live baiting the other day. Loads of boats and quite sloppy. While some launches did well all we.managed was a mako.

Hi Jake.Both marlin were hooked off berghans in 127m and the yellow fin in 90m north end of stevie's.All on lures.seems alot of guys live baiting up there though.something I've yet to try

Hey guys hows the fishing been going over the weekend? Looking at heading up for the week from the waikato

Green gold Merlin strikes again. 130kg est in 130m off Karikari. Pretty quiet overall though. Even had to do some Snapper fishing

Based on what we saw the past few days I would stay in the 90m - 130m depths from Stevies through to Karikari as a starting point. Seem to be plenty of skippies around once you find the right depths. Not a lot of bait around though so if you find good bait it is worth working around it for a while.apparently there were marlin rounding up bait in 90m on the North Ground yesterday morning.

Weather looks pretty good for it up there too, best of luck to ya'll.