Peter Chan Two Day Fishing Trip

Peter was last out with us three years ago with Ye from YeeHaa fishing before the shop was opened.  He had been itching to get back out and finally locked down two days over a weekend and his good mate Jun flew up from Christchurch to join in proceedings.

Neither of the boys had done much jigging or kingi fishing but were keen to give it a shot.

The bite at the Supermarket on the first morning was pretty good on the jigs, a triple first up, Jun, Peter and the skip had a jig in the water too that got nailed...awesome times!!  These fish are competing hard, once one jig or bait gets nailed they all pile in on the action

Jun with a nice king that had him pinned on the rail, on the JM350 and Powerspell PE7

Peter pretty stoked with his first of the trip

I found another pile of fish stacked up high on the Raymarine and the boys were both on again, Jun by now was feeling it in his arms!

Peter railed on his 350 and Accurate

Nice aldies king round 20kg

After a few more multi hook ups we went down to fish a reef in close to the Aldies that had lots of nice snapper holding and plenty of kings mixed in as well.  I pulled out Peter's little Daiwa Bay jigging rod and little Calcutta which he uses to catch pannie snapper in the Hauraki Gulf, rigged it up with some 60lb fluoro and fired it down with a livie for Jun, whose arms were getting a bit tired by now...wham....that little snapper jellybean of a livie just got hammered

YEah Jun....a sweet Tairua snapper

Meanwhile on the other side of the boat Peter was still jigging hard on the 350, and got railed again on another nice fish

I popped down a bit of snapper candy again on the Calcutta and this one got walloped big time, not a snapper this time, a nice little king which put up an epic fight on the light gear

We finished the day off throwing poppers and stickbaits at a patch of smaller kings down at the 27 which was a bit of fun then it was time for the boys to have a breather

Next morning and first drop Peter got railed by a big fish, another nice one round the 20kg mark

another nice one hammered the jig and man it fought hard and unlike a king it was going in all directions but straight down, we soon found out why when it got to the baot and a mako was tailing it, as i lifted it out of the water it got aerial and took a swipe at the tail, ah well guess we don't have to bleed it, one for the bin this time boys

A patch of Alberts taking jigs right under the boat in about 5m was a good sign the water is warming up

Peter railed on the last fish of the trip - awesome fellas!

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