Fresh Coromandel Peninsula Fishing Reports

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!!