Sydney Angler Boys Aug 2011 Kingfish Trip

Six keen fellas from Sydney Angler arrived in NZ proudly wearing their Beverly Hills Bait and Tackle hoodies eager to do battle with some green and gold monsters.    The plan was to get the arms warmed up at the Mercs on Day One and get some fish on jigs, and then move on to the ldies for days 2,3,4 and get some monsters.  Working two boats we swapped the boys around and each two we had two casuals joining the team.

Epic Day One

The boys on Epic stuck to jigs on day one, regular Tony McKenzie whos a bit of a machine on the jig rod ending up with a dozen fish to this size

Evo Stevo proud as punch with his first on the saber game ad green spike jig

Triple time

Good to see Jules over in NZ (Jules came to Vanuatu with us a few years back), this his first on the jig

Sanity Day One

League boy Byron gets the ball rolling with one on the livie

Double time on livies for Mars and Byron

And Stu with a nice fish taken on livie

Epic Day Two

We gapped it to the Aldies the next day and Mars was in big time the next day with a string pulling fattie!

Pulling the scales down to 22kg we had our first double kegger for the trip!  On ya Mars

'The Apprentice' Stevo pretty happy with his new PB

Jules hit 20kg

and got was bent over on fish most of the day

Mars bent on another solid fish

It was a pretty special day with the Aussies felling the power for most of the day

Sanity Day Two

Stu and Byron with some solid fish on livies

Trip leader Tommy Du aka 'Sizzle' aka Baitmaster with  a sweet fish taken on a .....livie!

Epic Day Three

Stu skull drags a solid as fish up the next day.......fl*ck***ng geez its green......thinks its a marlin or something

Solid fish in the early twenties to kick the day off - solid

Byron follows up

Then Stu does battle with something in a whole nother league.......dunno who was more shattered when we got it to the boat......30kegs++ of solid Aldies kingfish

BOOM

Jules was a pleasure to have on the boat and just loved doing battle with these fellas

Stu was having a great day and caught this tagged kingfish, turned out to be tagged three years ago by Dale on Niggly

Boys have their poses down pat by now, double to finish up a choice day on the kings

Sanity Day Three

Stevo did battle with an endless line of these models on the JM Saber Game

A solid 19kg on the saber!!!

Mario with the fish of the trip, Tobes reckons the biggest on Sanity to date at est 35kg!  On ya Mars!!

Mr Yoon and friend from Japan brought their handlines along for some Coromandel fishing!  Needless to say more than handlines were requitred to get some of these beasts to the boat!!

A double to Steve and Mars to finish off a cracker of a day on the Coromandel kingfish

Epic Day Four

We ran north the next morning to find the bait

Brad Burroes and Dad John joined us for the fourth day, and Brad was the star of the show today, accounting for a long line of fish in this sort of category

Sizzle started sizzling once he succumbed to the lure of the baitfish :-)

Dad John did real well on this solid 20kg fish

Great way to end a real enjoyable four days on Epic with a sweet double before we headed for Tairua

Sanity Day Four

Steve had his lift and wind on the Saber Game down to a fine art!  Another copuple of awesome fish on the light rod

Stu got a pasting for an unstoppable monster today but got a nice line of fish like this model

None of us will forget Stev's enthusiasm for catching these green and gold monsters - see ya again soon cuz!

And the man of the trip Mars sneaks one more in before we head back for some brews in Tairua!

One we'll remember for a long time boys - CHEERS!

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