Jack Harper Fishing Trip
Its been a while since Jack and Yvonne have been over, Jack first did a trip with us four years ago, then came from from Byron Bay the year after they enjoyed Tairua, the fishing and the seafood so much, two trips the last two years were cancelled due to some surgery, but the new bionic man was back to tustle with some big snaps and kingfish and indulge in some good NZ seafood.
I teed up some regulars to join Jack each day, and Simon Skelton was with Jack on Day one, the livies were hard to come by the the wind was piping 30 knots inshore so it was late by the time we got out wide, but the conditions glassed off beautiful and and the snappers were hammering the livies left right and centre, a nice 7kg jobbie to Simon first up - mint fish!
60 odd years of striking at fish wasa habit hard to remove but we got there aye Jack!
The bionic man into a nice king
One for the smoker and dinner the next few nights
Simon with one heading back to Auckland
I'd had a Sabile Stick Shadd 155 SK set up on a light casting rig waiting for the first surface bust up of big kings, which the moon was due .
Sure enough round midday a bunch of kingfish started smashing up saurie on the surface, stickbait was cast of 6kg braid on a Daiwa Certate 3500HD and Daiwa Coastal rod, first cast and it got HAMMERED by an big angry kingfish, an epic 20 minute fight on 6kg braid and a fat 18kg hoodlum was the reward for Simon!
Once again morning conditions were crap but the livie tank soon filled and the dinner table was looking pretty healthy with some greedy John Dory which took a livie pegged under the boat
Once again the gnarly south easter wind dropped out, the sun came out and so did the snapper to play
Jack was already to tustle with some kings today and got the line share of them
Number two....what shoulder surgery?
Mark was out with Jack today and having a ball with some Aldies snaps
Suckers for the livies these fellas
Another nice string puller for Jack
Mark collects some more for the bin
Time for a double, Jacks on to another nice king.....
While Mark bags another nice snap
Mark connected with two fish on his Accurate that were unstoppable at sunset and were in the reef in seconds, next time bro...
Back at the G Spot and a nice fish on a Zest cuttlefish jig was the return first drop
Some bugs and scallies were the order for the BBQ to wrap up a cool couple of days on the water
Limit bag of scallies in 8m of water close to Tairua.....
Cajun kingi kebabs
and some yum smoked fish from the last few days - chooooice!
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