After seeing a dozen Windy notifications over the last six weeks, frustration got the better of us and a Friday mission was planned. Grunta and I made the trip up to Army Bay with the Rippton drone.

We’d heard some great reports of decent snaps caught up that way, but in hindsight, they were probably a little further out than we could manage with the Talica 50. Three flights out to ~ 500 meters between 5pm – 8pm saw around 8 fish caught, mostly small, but two keepers around the 35cm mark.

Bloody lovely evening with beers and snacks, plus plenty of interested locals chatting to us about the drone, or providing a bit of intel. We're already scheming and the next trip is likely to the west coast (possibly Muriwai). Has anyone had much success in close out there recently??