Like the numbers. I did a 20 litre trip the other day with 8 kg snapper fillets, 6 kg tarakihi, 2 kg gurnard fillets and a few trevally and kawhai fillets. A couple of crays cherry on the top…..BIG down side as Mrs won’t let me go fishing till we cut through the Kia Moana. Fed 7 families but still got some chew ahead….all good wether is rubbish for the next bit.

Got lucky with the weather on Wednesday calm seas and bugger all swell and wind better than the forecast predicted. Straight out to 50m didnt take long until we had our first customer a nice Gurnard then we were into the Snapper, didnt take long to catch a good feed. Had a Shark pay us a visit and collect some tackle.  Biggest Snapper a little over 55cm and a couple more around 50cm. Came in closer to Carters beach to see if we could get a couple more Gurnard before coming back in caught one more so after half an hour made the short run back in.   Back home early so plenty of time to take the boat out to the lake for a fresh water run and clean.

   Motor out to 40 M look for birds . Usually due west of Manu does the trick.

Went out off Raglan Friday, avg conditions binned up in a couple of hrs only 3 Gurnard, Snapper were still full of row.

No Have yet to see any milky flesh fish on the West coast

Pretty much all snapper and few gurnard up this way at 60m

mate rang me earlier this morning ,he went out to go snapper fishing at 50m but it was a bit bumpy so went to around 40m off Jackson's reef,still rough anchored up and snaps not bitting so decided to have a troll. Put on a cheap tuna lure an 5 minutes later marlin on. He was using his snapper gear usually a torium 20,played it for 2hrs but couldn't  get it boat side so had to leader it on the third attempt  swivel broke. Reckons he couldn't make his arms work afterwards. Estimates it was 100 to 110kg. He should know better and have the right gear as we landed one  in roughly the same area 4yqrs ago.You never know how your day will end if you have a go.