other coast bro, but youre right. Was like going to the boat show on water! Managed 3 snapper 44-54 cm. No swell, gentle breeze, heaps of islands to shelte r behind. Can't wait for my next western adventure where the only boat youll see is a sun refkectionoff a distant screen and you can count cray pots on one hand, go hard!

Went out Manu this morn for the Manu bay comp,got to the ramp at 6am ,bout 4 boats already there went up to pay my entry fee and the lady told me the comp was cancelled due to the weather!!! Tui! I thought!looks good to me,but I guess swellmap put a lot of people of and of course you need a crowd for a good comp so that's that!
left the ramp and headed north with the plan to fish in close for a change,and yes it paid off! 1st spot sat in 10ms of caters baches and deployed 4 straylines with big kahawai slabs from last sun,got a coup jack macs on the sabiki then the strayline took off at super speed, a short fight resulted in a 5kg snapper,this is the spot I thout but 2 hours later and no more snapps we shifted south in to 5 ms of water.Straight away we got hit every drop by snapper from 32 cm to 40cm right under the boat,a few gurny came up in a coup kahawai but no bigger snaps so we pulled the pin and headed futher south .
We sat up tide of a point in 8ms and burleyed back across it,fishing just got better ,heaps of kahawai and snapps to 5lb.We put out huge!slabs of kahawai and skippy heads on 10/0s and even 35cm snaps weredealing to them!every drop!kept more than usual and a few kahawai for the bnb comp coming up at Marsden point and headed back to manu and only 6 trailers at the ramp!sea was good all day in close .Awesome day again!West is best you no the rest!

Thanks for that.I am going to have to get there asap

Mean, well done ramcoed

Mokau next Mish!!!! For some big Snaps!!! Mark & Nana! See Ya here next flat weekend.

In regards to the re scheduling Manu Bay comp, the Raglan sport fishing club is currently looking into holding it 1 day of Easter weekend, that day is yet to be decided.
It was disappointing not to run the comp on Sunday, but we cant collect money and send boats out into the forecasted wind strengths that were due to arrive later that morning.
Nice line up of fish by the way Ramcoed

shot out from manu this morning. Small swell which died off by lunch, replaced by a stiff southeaster and short chop against the flood tide. Big rafts of shearwater off the bar with schools of rat kingies taking jigs. Word on the radio was of a difficult day on the water with some getting a feed and sme not. My family goes hungry tonight!

Any one get fish this weekend ?

Good for you mate 

Out this afternoon, would have liked to have gone early but couldn't get any one together.