Epic Adventures, Tairua NZ. New Zealand Fishing Tours & Guide, Coromandel Peninsula

OUR Boat

“Epic Adventures” is our 6.7 metre Stabicraft Supercab Hard Top. Being a pontoon boat is extremely stable at rest, provides a great platform for fishing and diving adventures and is designed with safety in mind. The Supercab provides a roomy cabin out of the conditions and the cockpit is nice and roomy with optimum fishing space. The boat is the perfect set up for jigging with controls, throttle and electronics in plain view of everyone jigging to see exactly what each line is doing. (The same goes for fighting kingis in the shallows and fighting big marlin, the helm is right where the action is!).

The boat is ideal for someone wanting the charter us for themselves, rather than sharing a boat with lots of other people (as you will find on many other larger boats). Epic Adventures is surveyed for up to 6 people, but ideally somewhere between 1 and 4 people is best if we are going to provide you with an unforgettable fishing experience and hopefully the fish of a lifetime!! We get a lot of people just coming out by themselves, so they get the skippers full attention.

Epic Adventures is in “Safe Ship Management” with Maritime NZ, contains all the required safety equipment including Radio Beacons, GPS, VHF, Lifejackets, Flares etc and has been surveyed for 6 passengers. Epic is also equipped with the latest Raymarine C80 chart plotter and sounder. Good electronics are a must with the type of fishing that we do - especially jigging and softbaiting. You can be sure we'll do out upmost to put you right on top of where the action is!

The boat comes complete with all the fishing tackle you need including:

	Rods and Reels (free use as part of charter): The absolute best in Jigging Gear!!!!: Jigging Master 300 Powerspell Rod and Shimano Ocea Jigger Reel Stella 20000FA Reel and Smiths Offshore AMJ 52X Stella 20000SW and Jigging Master Powerspell 400spin Shimano Talica 12ii and Jigging Master Powerspell350 Gamefishing: 2x37kg Shimano Tiagra 50W 3x24kg Penn Internationals 50W Livebaiting Bent butt Kilwell/Tica Livebait Rods and Shimano Tyrnos reels 2xTyrnos10 and Jigwrex 100 and 200 (good light jigs rods too) Straylining: 10kg Abu Baitfeeders for stralining 10kg Daiwa Sealine on Composite Developments Gamecaster 6kg Daiwa Sealine light tackle straylining Softbaiting: 6-10kg Berkley Dropshot Rods with Abu 804 Cardinal Reels for softbaits. Fished with 10pound Berkley Fireline for casting softbaits 6-10kg T Curve spinning rod with Shimano Symmetre reel with rainbow braid for deep water and casting softbaitings 6-10kg Daiwa Coastal spinning rod with Shimano Symmetre reel with rainbow braid for deep water and casting softbaitings Light Tackle: 2kg and 4kg IGFA light tackle

	Kilwell Outriggers for gamefishing

	Gimbal and Harness: Black Magic Equalizer for gamefishing Jigging gimbals for jigging

	Terminal Tackle (on a pay if lost basis): Livebaiting: Youvella Mutsu hooks, Suffix, Black Magic and Surecatch flurocarbon Jigging: Katch1 jigs: - 300 and 400gm spear jigs Zest jigs: - Curved Slider, Hardy and Deep Slim YeeHaa jig: 200gm pencil jigs Broken Arrow JIgs Jigging Master jigs Action jigs, Inchiku jigs Rigged with Surecatch, Jigstar ring sets and Surecatch, Duel or Berkley flurocarbon Softbaits: GULP Softbait is what we primarily use for snapper softbaiting - our favourites being a Nuclear Chicken Pogy and Lime Tiger 5 or 7" jerk shad. Other favourite patterns include Camo, Watermelon Neon, Orange Tiger Pogy. We also carry a range of Bozo's soft plastics which are great on kingfish - especially their Kingi Krunchas Gamefishing Lures: BONZE: Darter/Tracker/Scorpian/Vampire/BTK/DS/ Jackhammer/Behemoth PACIFIC: Genesis/Baitfish PAKULA: Sml, Med and Lge Sprocket ZUKER: 3.5 and 5.5 BLACK MAGIC: Tuna Terror, JellyBean, Freedom Grandslamme

	Livebait tank with window

Salt ice is provided on all trips to keep your catch in optimum condition.

We also carry a Nikon D70s camera on board to ensure you get a top quality photos of your Epic Adventure fishing in New Zealand to take home with you.

`Our Stabicraft 659SC 'Epic Adventures' taking a break from the fishing at South Bay, Slipper Island. She is our second Stabicraft since we started the business in 2005, we don't think there is a better boat in out there this size for fishing and diving in NZ waters.

Accolades

-Winners kingfish section 2010 Tairua Pauanui Sportsfishing Club Shimano Standup Comp 1st and 2nd kingfish overall plus 1st kingfish in light tackle section.

-Winners of NZ Big Game fishing Nationals Fishing Tournament 2009 (fished nationwide by all NZ clubs). Overall team winner - kingfish (5100 points). Most tagged (183). Winner line class 15kg IGFA - kingfish (18kg), winner line class IGFA 10kg - kingfish (17kg), winner line class IGFA 8kg - kingfish (16.2kg). Most tagged an an angler (Anthony Honeybone 60fish). Winner 10kg line class - snapper.

-Winners kingfish section Tairua Pauanui sportsfishing club Tuna and light tackle tournament 2009. 1st kingfish to Leon Wickham.,

-Winners kingfish section Tairua Pauanui Sportsfishing Club Shimano Standup Comp 2009 1st, 2nd and 3rd kingfish

-Winners Tairua/Pauanui sportfishing clubs top boat award for the 2007/2008 year and also the 2008/2009 season.

-Winners of trophy for most kingfish tagged and released by an angler in the 2008 New Zealand Big Game Fishing Council, NZ Nationals.

-Winners heaviest kingfish in the 2007 Tairua/Pauanui Shimano Standup fishing competition.

-Winners heaviest snapper in the 2006 Tairua/Pauanui Ladies competitionn

OTHER Boats

Got a bigger group? Or want to overnight on the water? Simply join us on another bigger vessel which can be organised on request. We work with several other bigger vessels and guide bigger groups with them. This provides options for multi day overnight trips locally to Great Barrier Island, Mayor Island and the Mercury Islands, or further afield to the Ranfurly Banks and Three Kings. We can put together any guided trip to suit your requirements.