Captain
Jason Harris

Member since November 2017 Tairua, New Zealand
Background
Capt. Jason has been fishing since his earliest days. The fishing community respects him and he knows a great deal about the local fisheries. His skills and experience will be to your advantage when fishing with StrikeZone Charters. Jason has landed some really enviable catches throughout the years, including a Kingfish of almost 40 kg, solo Marlin. Jason is also the first angler to land a Broadbill Swordfish for the local fishing club. If you’re looking for someone who knows about what’s biting at what time of the year, Jason is your guy. When you go fishing with Jason, you will also get the chance to learn some new fishing techniques and Jason also knows a great deal about the history of the local area.
Techniques
Being on the water for more than 200 days a year we are in tune with what's working at the time of your trip. Weather it's livebaiting, bait and burley,softbaiting or jigging we will teach you!

Hey, I'm Captain Jason Harris

Tairua, New Zealand
Background
Capt. Jason has been fishing since his earliest days. The fishing community respects him and he knows a great deal about the local fisheries. His skills and experience will be to your advantage when fishing with StrikeZone Charters. Jason has landed some really enviable catches throughout the years, including a Kingfish of almost 40 kg, solo Marlin. Jason is also the first angler to land a Broadbill Swordfish for the local fishing club. If you’re looking for someone who knows about what’s biting at what time of the year, Jason is your guy. When you go fishing with Jason, you will also get the chance to learn some new fishing techniques and Jason also knows a great deal about the history of the local area.
Techniques
Being on the water for more than 200 days a year we are in tune with what's working at the time of your trip. Weather it's livebaiting, bait and burley,softbaiting or jigging we will teach you!
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Strikezone Sportfishing NZ

Excellent
4.9 / 5
(66 reviews)
Tairua
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Kingfish coming!
Kingfish coming!
Nov 26, 2023 Tairua
The warm water is coming and so are the kingfish! A quick half day trip on sunday provided some good action on soft plastic lures with some lovely snapper,trevally and some great scrapes with kingfish with some bust offs and this beautiful fish of 15kgs hitting the deck afterca 30 min battle. Kingfish numbers are building and we are expecting a cracker off a summer!
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Big snapper on the chew!
Big snapper on the chew!
Oct 21, 2023 Tairua
Big snapper on lures! Through this past month we have been doing great on Snapper targeting them on lures. Most anglers have opted for soft plastics but some have been caught on small metal jigs also. Some of these snapper have been close to 8kg making for some very happy anglers. Targeting the early mornings and late afternoons have paid dividends and we expect this run on the big fish to continue for awhile yet...
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Snapper everywhere!
Snapper everywhere!
May 4, 2023 Tairua
Wow! Is about all we can say about the fishing right now! Snapper fishing has been exceptional with the fish seeming to be pretty much everywhere at the moment. This day we got a burley trail going and straylined big messy baits down current and caught some lovely snapper to over 10 pounds.
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Great Autumn fishing!
Great Autumn fishing!
Apr 28, 2023 Tairua
The last couple of weeks have produced some outstanding fishing! Particularly snapper fishing has been red hot of late with big fat snapper hitting lures and smashing dead baits down a burley trail. Kingfish too have prevalent on some of the offshore rocks with some fish going over the magic 20kg mark.. Along with sighting killer whales on our journeys our trips have been full of surprises and this is expecting to carry on for some time yet!
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Kingfish and big snapper bite hard!!
Kingfish and big snapper bite hard!!
Mar 1, 2023 Tairua
Catching livebaits this day took a little longer than usual but that didnt matter as soon as they were deployed the kingfish were on to them! Losing a couple to sharks we eventually boated some beautiful specimens but not only were kingfish on the chew but some montrose snapper too were nailing the livies making for a memorable day!
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BIG fish moving in closer!
BIG fish moving in closer!
Nov 2, 2022 Tairua
The day started with a productive morning catching livebaits with mackeral mostly and also some small trevally in the mix so then we proceeding to bridle one of each and send them back into the drink where we caught the livies hoping that there were some big kingfish hanging around the bait schools. It didn't take long before the mackeral on the starboard corner got nailed and line starting screaming off the reel! Being in shallow water with the kingfish trying its best to break us off on the rugged terrain below I had to maneuver the boat to keep a vertical line between the rod tip and the fish below but slowly but surely the girl on the rod did a great job of pumping and winding and eventually getting the huge kingfish to the side of the boat and with an almighty heave we pulled the estimated 25kg kingfish into the boat! With a quick photo we put it back to fight another day then went on to catch several more nice fish keeping a 12 kg one for a week's worth of fish dinners. With the boat ramp only 15 mins away we went back to Port with sore arms and smiles on our dials!!
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Excellent
4.9 / 5
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Excellent
4.9 / 5
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Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Excellent
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Awesome day!
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Appropriate for children
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Russell T.
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Fantastic day with Strikezone

VERIFIED   Half Day Trip (AM) on December 27, 2024
Great day out with our captain Jason in Tairua, plenty of excitement with Kingis and allround perfect day.
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Elias F.
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Fishing with Jason

VERIFIED   Half Day Trip (AM) on November 13, 2024
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James H.
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Winter fishing trip

VERIFIED   Full Day Trip - Mixed Species on June 12, 2024
Had a great day out with strike zone charters, Jason was a very experienced captain and despite the slow start to the morning...
James H. recommends Strikezone Sportfishing NZ
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Randal M.
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Great fishing experience with Jason Harris at Strkezone

VERIFIED   Full Day Trip - Mixed Species on May 4, 2024
Jason, our captain and fishing guide, gave us a very relaxing and enjoyable time on the water. We landed a lot of good fish...
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John R.
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Strike zone Sports fishing NZ

VERIFIED   Full Day Trip - Gamefishing on January 15, 2024
Captain Jason of strikezone sports fishing NZ was a pleasure to deal with and couldnโ€™t do enough for us and made a day of...
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