We spent most of Friday (sloppy 1.5-2m swell, 15-25 knt Sou' Easterly) stooging around the deep water (50ms) pins/bricks out from the B.o.I's to Takou Bay for very little return...landed and released a few legal snaps and a couple of blue cod for our troubles! Around 4pm the call was made to head into the coast for a straylinning and burley misson! We encounted slow but consistent catches of 35cm Reds till the change of light/bite time and away she went!...Every bait for about 45mins was unmercifully munched by hungry fish....best would have been in around the 10lb mark..lost a few very powerfull fishees thou!!......we released all but three 4lb pannies for a feed!

Saturday (confussed 2m swell, 20knt Nor-Easterly), we decided to have a "quick" fish out by the shallows around the Whangaroa Harbour entrance (Frenchmen/ Mahinapua)...once again not red-hot, but fairly consistant...heaps of kahawai, trevally and a few nice snapper to around 10lbs! Back at the Marlin Blue Hotel for a few quities at 4pm...nice!!

To sumarise...Heaps of burley in the shallows coupled with a bit of current was the only technique that produced the goods for "Spanners" (Matty from Primetime) and myself...all in all a good weekend out on the briny!


PS..DalBoy...sorry bout the no-show at the swordy club....got back to Waitangi at 10:30pm Friday night, drenched, hungry and tierd with the "officers of Home affairs" wondering what had happened to us!...

PSS....grrrrrr...All Blacks!

Kerren!

Glad to hear you got into a few. Planning to go up to Kerikeri landbased ASAP and would be grateful for any pointers re. possies and access to them if at all possible as I don't know the area at all. Also are there many sheltered spots around up there if it's blowing a bit as I plan to nightfish?

Cheers  

Some snaps of some snaps from the weekend just been!