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Paul Wright brought out some keen fellas from Taupo and was hooked into the first fish in no time at all on a livie, we pulled up planted the livie down while we rigged the rest of the gear - no time for that....10 seconds later the rod bent over and we were in!!
A sweet fish too....f
Craig with one on the jig, he was catchin em up non stop
Charlie with another nice Coromandel kingfish on the jig
Craig loaded up on a livie on the JM400
And this one got a tag popped in him and swum free
Charlie with a fat 18kg fish caught on a livebait, again tagged and set free
By 11am the boys arms were starting to get a bit tired, so the call was made to go and have a mooch in the shallows for some snapper. Paul's brother Mike is living in Australia and has a range of jigheads called Mantis lures, his latest development is a jighead with a wire treble stinger hook, worked a treat on the snapper, Nuclear Chicken was the colour and nearly every cast was getting hammered
Mike with another nice one on the New Penny
Turns out the treble's are a good way to connect with those squid that often attack the softbaits too.....ever wondered what the pecks out of the softbait are.....
I gave the fellas th option....."FogDog battered calamari for dinner.....or we put him down for a snapper?" The fellas chose the latter and so I put him out on the Stella 20000 just in case as we were in 10m of water......one minute later the Stella HOWLED ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, the drag which was set light for a snapper to run off with the squid was dialled up.....zzzzzzzz.....and up........zzzzzzzzzzz.....and Paul got slammed to the rail!
Finally the beast emerged and we pulled an old warrior aboard, complete with an old trace coming out of his gills from another encounter he had one. Quite a skinny fish but super long, he went 24kg and would have topped 30 in condition, we popped a tag in him and let him go on his way - what a finish to the day, one hell of a kingfish in the shallows at the Alderman Islands!!
Blair and mates were out the same day, out of Whiti on Sanity
Justin with a nice fish for the bin
Mike Broome from Propellor magazine with a 20kg king
Blair with another about to be released
Synit Hellbent at the back loaded up on an 8kg king and 4kg braid
Medium powerflex loaded up on a nice king
Plenty of nice sized trevally around too
Blair with a nice king caught back in the 'Bay on 4kg
Next day and our regular crew from Independent Liquor were out chasing some more kings on Sanity out of Tairua, you could hear Jimmy's wooping and hollering from port!!!
The boys brought out newbie Roger to break his kingfish virginity!! Kingi ticked off!
Then Roger knocks over a 8kg snapper, caught on a mackeral fillet in 90m of water near the G Spot
Jimmy with a another nice one
The action hotted up with an awesome late avo bite, Rhys with the last keeper
JIgstar 350 loaded up on a nice fish, Wayne in a whole lot of pain!!
Wayne Henson with one tagged and about to go back to his mates
Roger with his first tagged kingfish
And Rhys with a prime 19kg fish
Jimmy with the last fish of the day before the donkeys fired up back to Tairua
Fishing website Grant Blair aka Grunta testing some new kit on Epic on the same day, Grunta brought out a crew from Extreme Boats for the day
The man behind Extreme Boats, Glenn Shaw with a nice kingfish caught on his mint new Blue Rose 450 and Stella 10000. Caught on a Broken Arrow 300gm in green
Ian Miller with a fish in the 19kg mark caught on a livebait - check the conditions
Grunta getting seriously dealt to on the Stella 2000 and Smiths loaded up to the max
Another livie popped down and after some huge runs Grunta goes to work on lifting it up while Ian looks on
A wicked end to an awesome day on the water!!! Conditions don't get much better!
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