Well done Greg~~a mighty fish

Yes Kitno I went out from Kaituna, I made the call to stay out after low at 1.40pm which made a long day and I copped the wind on the way home but was a tail wind.
Anyway good call as ended up with a special fish, I've been hoping for a 20lb snapper and 20kg king so nice to achieve one of those.
Being so shallow and reefy it was challenging getting that fish in as was fishing solo, I started the boat up and chased it while fighting it then the netting as well.
Huge relief to get it in the net.

Cheers guys appreciate the congrats

Hi Coutta, I came in 2 hours after low on Saturday and would've like a bit more water, it was 0.6m picking the best channel I could see, which is the minimum for my boat. Coming into Kaituna when its like this I get onto a healthy plane and as I cross the bar trim the motor up to about 7-8 degrees on my gauges which helps, I get a bit of ventilation but stay on the plane. Going out across the cut for me is less forgiving depending on swell.

Thanks Greg.

I don’t know about the harbour but it has been flat outside recently and is surprisingly clear. I was about 3 mile out yesterday. Got 5 snaps and a gurnard. Definitely getting easier as i was back home and cleaned up within 4.5 hours. Water temp was 15.4.

Went out today around 10:45 midway Motiti and the Mount in 30 metres.  Beautiful day but with hardly anything on the sounder, no work ups and no birds.  Moved around a few spots and caught just one panny in 3 hours.  Bit disappointing.

Thanks for reporting Rancher, good to hear fish being caught in the harbour, I was thinking of trying the entrance tomorrow so now I'm keen to give it a go.
I keep hearing about a spring run of snapper which happens about now but I only ever fish the harbour after xmas.

Grandson and I went out mid morning and did a drift with softbaits through the entrance with incoming tide, it was dead for us.
So such a nice day we drove around in front of Omanu beach and got 5 snaps, 35 to 40cm in 20m depth.
If you anchored with burley I would say it would be a good session as they were spread out everywhere.
A mate of mine who fishes up the top of the harbour told me he has had two good sessions in the last week so they are in the harbour.
Twof the fish we got today had milt coming out of them.

Left Sulphur Point ramp at 6am yesterday and went outside up Matakana past the banks.

Parked in 14.5m dropped the burley and had 3 35cm snaps, 3 big kahawai and a large trev in the bin by 8am.

Headed in to look for kings on the flats with the fly rod, no luck on that front.