Early December Trips 2010 - Epic Adventures - 30 Nov to 15 Dec
American visitors Craig and Susie Clausen were in New Zealand for a luxury stay and then a cruise through the Pacific, a spot of Coro style game fishing was in order, a nice casual late start today after a mean brekkie at Poets Corner lodge and lady luck Susie snagged the first kingi....both feet in the air - yeehaaa......a mighty kiwi fish to kick things off, this one went back for the BBQ dinner at Poets Corner lodge in Waihi
Lady luck Susie back at it again with another stonking kingi taken on a livie
Craig was to do battle with the next one that had him hurting big time.....
Yeah baby...25kegs of Coromandel kingfish
The fellas from Allied outdoors came out to test some of their new kit, their new spinning reels and rods dealing to some nice kings, Ben here with the first of the day landed
Plenty of nice snaps too.....albeit a fuzzy photo but you get the story
Kev with a primo 20kg Aldies king on his Avet
Ben slaying another on the spin and new jig rod
Stoked
Kev deals to another
More snaps for the bin
Some average conditions but some big fat kings on livies
Tobes did a day on pic with Grant and Helen and the kings were holding up high, Grant got to christen our new Shimano stickbait set up
Helen with a nice snap taken on a livie
A triple on jigs, this one the first ever on our new Jigstar 350 spin
Happy fellas from Port Waikato
Graham Giles and his workmates were out for a dose of Coro kingi magic, and the kings were smashing the livies and jigs
Graham with a nice one from in close to the Aldies in the avo
Nice finish to the day....
JD and crew braved some pretty average Saturday conditions but got some nice kings
This 20kg king had a bit of spine disfigurement but still fought like a freight train
The fellas got a nice feed of snaps on the way home behind Slipper and Manaia Reef
Plenty of kings in on the bait ground, Chris nabbed this one in the shallows at the start of the day
His old fellas first ever kingi
A nice warm up for this one....!
Chris with a nice one on the jig, JM rocket on the JM200three kings
Rick with a cracker on the jig round the 20kg mark
Gordon with a nice 18kg fish from the G Spot on a blue JM alien jig
And from a double with Chris, avery thrashed and white YeeHaa pencil jig accounting for this one
Mark Joseph was back from Oz for a mix of Salt Water Fishing, stickbaiting, popper fishing, jigging, livebaiting and whatever it took to get into some fun kingi action, this time bringing old mate Dermot over ...only a couple of drifts into the trip Mark had his first on the fly.....there were a couple more dustings on bigger fish that morning in the shallow foul....
Some more fun on the fly
Shallow water kingi action
NIce king for Dermot caught jigging under the kahawai schools at Red Merc
Nice 10kg kingfish caught on SWF at Cuvier
Similar sized king in the shallows on stickbait off Tairua
Dermot with a nice 20kg kingfish taken on a livebait in the deep
Mark with a solid model taken surface trolling a livebait on the surface past a sunfish in 100m of water!!
All hell then erupted!! Mark with a solid fish from a triple hook up on the surface, this one a 20kg+ model on Smith stickbait
We had huge schools of saurie scattering everywhere, this Mangrove Studio stickbait a pretty good imitation and slayed plenty through the day
Dermot with another cracker taken on the slow troll
Another cracker fish for Dermot on a Nomad stickbait
We finished a great trip off with some fun SWF action on the kahawai schools at MacGregrors rock
FAT kahawai on the fly
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