Sydney Angler Trip 2010

The boys from Sydney were back threatening to make Tairua an annex state of New South Wales!  This was the second or third trip for a lot of them so the pressure was on to find some fish.  A northerly system, some nice ocean current and a patch of reall good water saw us get into some BIG kingfish...

Day one and we stocked up on livies as they had been working well the week prior. Tobes found Jerry a big fish first up which managed to turn his Hots rod into a two piece! he landed the fish still!!  All 9 fellas got into some good fish on day one with plenty in the 18-20kg range...more pics to come from day one soon, this one takes the cake though....

The next day we had some fun on the bait grounds while we were stocking up the livey tank it was hard not to resist the urge of feeding a few liveys to the kings who were rounding up the bait, that man Jerry again....

Romano loaded up on a real nice fish for the bait grounds

18kg within minutes from home ain't bad!

Andy wishing we had one of his downriggers that morning!!

Allen with another one from the bait grounds

Time to head back out wide and Andy was loaded up on a monster

A solid 24kg fish on one of Andy's jigs from the Downrigger shop

Romano with a 6kg snapper which took a livebait

Jerry testing out our Tica livebait rod

And he bags another 24kg fish

And straight into another one.....

....and another, this guy is a machine!!!

Andy was havin a ball on his jigs!!

Allen with a real nice fish on a livey

Romano got reefed on this fish but managed to pull him from the depths

Day three and Iain nabs a PB kingi of 23kg on a livey

Darryl with a PB kingi of 20kg

Paul into a nice fish on a livey

James with a PB kingi of 19kg

Paul Justin with one that pulled the scales down to 28kg

Awesome conditions.....chaos on the rods.....

Day four and Romano nabs a nice fish on a livey first up

We found a great patch of kingfish on a new reef out the back of Great Mercury Islands.....we named it Crackerjack reef...Jerry managed to snap his second rod of the trip.....

A real hote bite at the end of the day and everyone was into it.....

Andy with one of the last fish of the trip and luvin it!!!

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