Choice May Fishing!
May is just a choice time to be on the water. There is always a load of feed for the fish to chomp down on and when you get a good bite there is always the chance it will go all day long. There are a few of those below....
Its also a busy time for me with the Boat Show which we had the Senator exhibited at (great catching up with everyone!) and I snuck away for an annual mates trip to the Three Kings mid May. In between all of that the kings were going nanas back home at the Aldies as you'll see below....even the odd puka in between!
First up was Rhys and Jill from Waihi along with Craig Ellis from Tauranga. We gapped it to the Par Five at the Aldermen Pins and the kings were biting well on a glassy calm day. As usually happens when there is a lady on board....Jill whispered up the first fish of the day, and a nice one at that!
Craig got to christen the MC Works All Glass special and new Daiawa Exhibition 6500
Rhys with his first ever kingfish, and there was a long line of these good conditioned late teens Tairua kings for Rhys through the morning
Rhys with another solid fish
And another released to fight another day
Back at the Supermarket and the jigs were the order of the day, this one on the trusty JM Rocket and the new rod well and truly christened now
Craig with another on the jig from the G Spot in the afternoon
Mr Glass is all class!
And this bite just kept on coming, just a few pics from a wicked day, awesome conditions and virgin kingfish anglers well and truly blooded
Next up was Brad Burden from Jigstar Australia and his bro Leroy, ex SA boys just so happened we teamed them up with some other South African boys Stu and Tinnus(just so happened the original crew got vetoed from coming due to Mothers Day and Stu and Tinnus got the call up!)
Brad got smashed on the first drop and their continued the trend for the next six hours, a few of the fish below....
Brad with one on the blue/pink slider
Yeah Bradley!
Jigging Master!
Brad with the fish of the day, mid 20's and in primo nic
The ring ins Stu and Tinnus were fishing livies while Brad and Leroy jigged there hearts out, they were also rewarded with some quality fish
Same colour, this time on the Zest Super Deep
A sweet fish for Leroy to finish up on the green and gold deep slim, we could have kept rolling but it was time to head for home
The next day was pretty much a livie mission Dan from Australia booked a two day mission from Australia. One day fishing, one day skydiving, then home. He fluked one of the best days weather wise of May and the fishing was off the chart as well......first drop and Dan got absolutely smashed over by this fish!!
Kuaotunu boy Simon came out for his dose of kingi fever
Alex Strobach from the French Cafe loves his fishing and wanted a taste of some kingi fishing....hows this for his first of the day- nice one mate!
And the qwuality fish kept on coming
Dan is from the restaurant trade as well so the fellas got to swap notes and in between get railed by big fish, uncanny how people we match up on these trips always seem to have something in common, nothing in between any of these fish either, all hard fighting freight trains
The old Smiths AMJ came out for a few more railings for old times sake
Gary De La Rue from Opus got smashed over first drop, a monster, then next drop he got his first ever kingi, a nice one to in the early 20's - on ya mate!
Jess nabbed he first king in style
Nice fish Jess!
And a sweet dead whole mackeral munching snapper from the same trip
Gooie, Charlie and Chappy from Aus came over for an Epic adventure, looking to get their arms stretched on some Kiwi kingfish. Charlie was first up, he was in for one hell of a day.......
Next up he got hit by a freight train of a fish......it all happened pretty quick but a bit of balance too far forward, and Charlies legs were soon in the water, he was left holding on to the rail with no rod in his hand.....see ya later $2,500 worth of fishing gear
We shook all the carnage off and hot stuck back into it.....Gooey with his first of the trip
Awesome conditions, awesome fish
Chappie with a nice king......a much better one flapped out of his arms hit the side, broke a Three Kings 200 and entered the water before a photo could be taken!!!! It was one of those days.....
Gooey with a brute to finish the day up!
The next day saw Charlie amped up for some revenge on those darn rod stealing kingfish, he was in with a vengenance....
Got Charlie
And a third before anyone else got a sniff!
Loads and loads of bait a the Aldies meant plenty of good tucker around snaffling up livies as well...
This is pretty good tucker too.......21kg of prime Aldermen Hapuku, hooked by Gooey on a livie fished hard on the bottom as we'd seen some good puka sign round the fringes of the reef. Geez it went hard on its first run too.....Nice one fella!
JD, Clint and the boys were out for their third trip, Dave turned out to be the hero of the day, hooked up most drifts, accounting for close to 20 fish himself.....first nice one was on the jig
JD with his best of the day
This one on the JM100 didn't go so well.....
You da man Dave!
Plenty of mid teens fish today every drop, bit smaller than some of the other days but a constant line of fish, right at the end of the day the fish came up really high, we slow trolled a liviebait and BOOM,.....Clint was railed with a bonus kingi just on home time
A bit of livie collecting the next day and Christ got hooked up on the stickie set......
A primo way to start Chris's NZ kingi fishing trip
Regular Justin Nelson was smashed on the jig on his Accurate set up on the first drop.....
Good old blue purple Benthos ....can't beat it some days!
Before today Josh's PB kingfish from Sydney was 5kg....he was pretty rapt with his first
Chris got his arms warmed up
More carnage, this time Justin with one he beat the Mako too
Justin swapped to a livie and BOOM.....
A nice long fish which went 20 on the scales for Chris, fishing 20 kegs of drag on his Stella.....nothing was going to escape....quick pic and this nice fish was released
Jared from Hi Tech Plastics (who did our underfloor bin) was rewarded with some nice fish this size
Semi retired eye surgeon Doug and his wife Liz booked a trip out with us to work out how to catch fish.....they were sort of expecting something a little different I think so it was a bit of a shock when the first kingfish hit!!!! Liz did extremely well though boating half a dozen quality fish like this!!
The kingfish whisperer Chris had his eye well and truly in by now......he got railed by plenty round the 20 mark
And another.....
Doug's hands are worth gold, we had to go easy on him, the JM300 was a perfect outfit for him, nice fish Doug
Another nice fish for Chris and by now the arms were well and truly wrecked
Next day we had a new deckie on board, Tony Carpenter, a young up and coming fisho, got his first taste of some epic madness....bait catching early on turned into a kingi session on the bait grounds
The fish were there when we turned up but it took a while for the bite to come on, when it did it was carnage with doubles and triples galore, Andrew with a solid fish to start things off on the Jigstar 350
Chris was getting a bit tired by now, so he perfected a new technique he called "the left hand right hand wind"....he see something new every day
Nice one bro
Andrew with another solid fish
Chris with another that pulled the scales down to bang on 20kegs
Andrew had a blinder on the Jigstar 350 and PE5
Josh is a Penn boy through and through. It is not often we fish Spinfishers for kings but it had plenty of grunt for the job. Chris says he has eight at home!!!....
Skirmantas got some monumental reefings jigging on his little Branzino, this one later in the day was some payback!!
Chris wraps up three days of solid action with the last for the trip - see ya next year bro....look forward to seeing your Mum get railed!!!
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