Xmas and New Years 2012 Epic Action
Report from Carl
Happy New Year All!! A crazy couple of weeks with some awesome kings in close and on jigs to 25kg and a 56kg bass thrown in for good measure. The waters warming and the first gamefish won't be too far away....
Belinda and I had earmarked Christmas Day out for a family day chilling with the kids on the beach at Slipper Island. My sis Michelle joined the festivities and we jetted for Slipper nice and early on Xmas day. Couldn't help having a sneaky drop on the way over, Pauanui reef loaded to the hilt with makkas and Shell got us dinner
Nice chilled way to spend Xmas day off
Top spot!
Oscar on bait duty....its a BIGGIE!
Time to watch the the girls get some kingis
Shell got a nice Xmas smoker on the 120
The boss upsized that with an 18kg kingfish taken from 9m over reef on a 120gm rod ....top effort Bindy!
Xmas week was pretty unkind on the weather front but Jono and the boys snuck the one good day in and slayed them, plenty of doubles and triples
Nice fat fish taking livies
And with their mouths full of ink jigs getting smashed too
Boom, MC Works 516 spin has been getting hammered
Another solid one for the boys
Jono had his jigging action sorted!
Another on the 516
Last one before the weather turned foul
Was a sober one for me and Tony New Years Eve as we had a crew of Japanese jiggers in town and they were chomping at the bit to get amongst it, even if we were the only ones braving the conditions on a foul New Years day.
Have you ever seen so much BLING
The kings liked the break....the jigs were hammered every drop
Something about new jigs.....the kings love them
Yoichi with a nice one
Crazy new Japanese rod........
Did the bizzo......
And then some!!! 25kg on jig - a choice way to see the New Year in!
Or not......
Oh dear....
"Stone" with another cracker on crazy Japanese jig
Finished off with a stickie session at Pumpkin, plenty of smaller fish around here
The next morning this one got nabbed on Pro Hunter sabiki by Mark Allan
Lou from Oz nabbed a sweet 18kg king from the par 5
Hubby Lou equal to the task
Mark with one of many taken through the day
Tobes from Tauranga gets a new PB
After a quick troll to see what the water was like it was into some more to finish the day off
Bryan from QLD was loving the kings
The next day was a rough one!!! What was supposed to be 10 knots on the forecast was a solid 25 knots of north east not pretty at all. The boys roughed it out for their fish
Taking the comfy seat for these pics....
Hunty from Singapore came away with a very solid 24kg fish of the day....awesome reward for braving some average conditions
The next day Tony and I did the bait collecting ourselves before pick up so it was a 5am start on the water for us.....we got to have a sneaky cast ourselves before pick up and when Tony nabbed this one on CBONE Zorro stickbait I knew we were in for a cracker of a day
The girls showed the boys how it was done first up,,,,,Sylvia gets her first NZ king and newbie Brook nabs a real solid one
Nice one Brook!!
Chard with a solid kingfish on livie on his Smiths
Hobbie got in on the act
And another, nice one cuz!
Triple time....plenty of chaos today....a mad kingi bite!
Chard gets another on the Smiths Stella combo, this one was a howler
Sylvia nabs herself a 20k fish of the day....well kingfish that is....
We'd talkled to the guys about the option of headed north for the afternoon and out a bit wider to find some NZ Hapuku for something different. About five drifts for nothing we shifted and shifted again for a few dropped fish and a shark.....one more drift was called and the PE10 got hammered......Tony and I had done a pretend run the night before over a few quiets with me in the boat and Tony running off line pretending to be a marlin.....anyway 15kg drag on strike you are seriously railed......when this fish hit Tony called it for a big bass and went to sunset....all 30kgs of drag and some serious thumb was still required....Hobbie was RAILED!!!! Amberjack Sniper up to the task
Good thing about the PE 10 is the harness lugs and we got Hobbie all braced up and he went to work
We thought it was big....then this popped up
BOOM.....gotta got close to 50....
One hell of a hua
A great finish to an EPIC day
We caught up with Mike from Fishing Coast to Coast mag who is circumnavigating NZ and filming it all for a few shots and a snippet of video for Gone Fishin' TV show
Can see how they get so big......
Back at the Tairua Pauanui sportfishing club, Arthur kindly put the fish on the scales for a weight and she went 56kg!!!
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