June Fishing Report

from Capt Tobez

Finally the wind swang and the swell started settling, Sanity purred back into life and we met the team on a calm and crisp Whitanga morning. No livies at the wharf so a quick trip to the 20m mark produced lots of maccies and mid teens kings.

Carmen and Phil were over from switzerland for a day out, never being on the sea before was a new experience for them and 3m swells diddnt phase them a bit having a blinder of a day and some top pics to boot. Here Carmen gets her first king - is she happy or what!

the double..twins even!

the boys turn - Russ and Travis...primo lads!

another one!!!...fish were biting very hard...nothing lasted more than a few minutes

Phil was getting a little sore after a nice run of fish and this beauty obliges for the camera

..no rest for Phil...boom! into a mid twenites whopper

Russ breaks the 20kg club...nice fish!

Russ had a great day...with a fine run on the kings.  A pretty late teens king

go that man!

Travis is visiting from Sydney and he got a good taste of the kings on his first drop

A great line of early teens fish..

A late flurry or snapps nabbed trav his new pb snapper..

Back on Epic out ofTtairua and regular Steve was back with his crew - livies no problem!...big schools of fish out over the sand, no problem filling the tanks. Out to the pins and strait into it, good sounds and lots of fish!

Darryl drops a live bait...big hit and hook pulls...damm!..and again!...man third time lucky...BOOYA!!! His little acurate is loosing a bunch of line..."up to sunset bro, you'll loose it"
10 mins later a horse of a fish pops up - god damm 30kg!

Steve with a nice fish

Tymon takes one for the fridge

and a beaut fish for woody on his JM 120 and PE3

Another spell of Northerly winds had us land locked for a few days so getting back out was a pleasure. I was joined by Tomas and Ants from Tauranga and mum and son team from aucks. Mum was into doing all the deckie work for her boy which was awsome to see. Slow trolled around the maccies for only one couda so a shift out to see what was happening at the pins. It was pretty sloppy out there but no wind.

Ants was doing the damge on jigs and stuck to it for most of the day

Cal was pretty crook but still managed nine for the day

Tomas nailed this fine snapper on a live bait

and managed to get his tally up there!!

With small tides the current had slowed and the fishing went from red hot to pretty good, still nice fish around but alot slower then what we had experienced in the last few weeks. A early start from tairua found us struggling to find livies but a shift to pumpkin hill found us on a big patch of nice maccies.

First time kingi fisherman Mark from the tron, dropped a livies down and soon the little PE5 was singing, up to sunset to slow this one down...and he has his first king, 22kg on the scales back at the wharf..nice one

Kaikoura hotellier Ian was up on holiday and keen to get a king or two as blue cod diddnt pull that hard

Tauranga town planner Tony was just keen to get a legal king and he got what he wanted - allready palnning on buying a jigging outfit for his tinny

Forecasters were spot on today and we had a good solid day at the pins - carl was having a blinder with some big fish coming on board, we were doing pretty good ourselves with some very nice fish for the boys.

Reuben nailed fish of the day early on - his first kingi...how often does that happen!!!

Chops and Rusty were up from the w coast and do alot of snapper fishing down there but kings are rare he rekons...a late teens king obliged for Chops

After a blistering run he matched his PB from earlier on

Alot of doubles today - nice pair for Chops and Rusty

another for Nic and Rusty

New PB for Nic - he had a great day!

Rusty's loving the green machines!

Reubs continues to catch all day

Rusty was not rusty at all...sharp as


Another awsome day on the pins - and guess what...moore wind, lucky the fishing is so hot!

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