Went out today, was a suprise to find Top Catch all closed up. For a change, I was actually going to spend some money too. Great morning chasing kahawai schools out around the 35m mark. Four kahawai two snapper and a trevally made it aboard. Lost a fish right at the boat which looked a bit like a skippy, but I wasn't paying attention enough to confirm that. Seems a bit odd at this time of the year so maybe I was wrong. 

mate & I went out looking for tarakihi, slow going but we got 7  in various spots, despite the baby snapper.

Yep, a couple of seiners  working out from us yesterday.

Fished yesterday in around 45 ft straight out from the entrance from 8 - 11.30. 13 good pannies 36 - 42cm. The best part was the 6 litres of gas.

Another excellent day for fishing today weatherwise, third weekend in a row.
I have struggled the last few weeks finding snapper and when I do they are mosly small, my Minn Kota is in the repair shop so havent tried for Tarakihi.
Todays fishing was better, had a slow start fishing around the knoll so drove to the other end of Motiti and eventually found some snaps in around 30m.
The last couple of hours were pretty good, good to have the current coming from whakatane, havent had that for a while.
Conditions were so good it was hard to leave.

Interesting strx7, it probably depends what side of structure we are fishing, this year I seem to have got more current from the north or lately lack of current.
Open sand fishing I'm not sure what works best

Three snaps is way better than a skunking bigred, I nearly had a crack yesterday but chickened out.
Water is at its coldest now and its a bit hit and miss, I see the Papamoa kayak boys on their forum struggled yesterday

Yep be good to see spring kick in and liven things up CN, I was out in front of Omanu in my dinghy today and lots of kahawai work ups eating whitebait but snapper were hard to find

Really nice fish! Congrats