Fresh Coromandel Peninsula Fishing Reports

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.

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!

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!

The weather we had for January was lot of rain and flooding in the Coromandel the days we had out fishing was good Plenty snapper about best I seen it They been coming to surface only 2 meters. depth under the boat the fish were thinking we were a mussel barge Food. soft bait rods were the go real fun just like trout fishing. Iam picking February will be the same. hopefully settle weather. see you all soon Capt Tim

summer on its way sea temp is rising there are heaps snapper in outer gulf work-up everywhere never seen so many dolphins gannets every where large snapper deep they all getting ready to come into the shallows Mussel farms fishing well nice 350 450 mm snapper with big snapper about landed a couple 5 kg snapper this week with bigger king fish also big Kahawai

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!!