Glanville:- Well after yesterday’s carnage we decided on a more subtle approach and decided to attack the fish in the shallows, it wasn’t long before we had our first fish in the boat which just so turned out to be a good size GT, at the sight of this the guests looked over as if to say are you mad my arms are still stretched…so I ventured further into the shallows around 1.5m of water and shortly after we had a couple of bent rods in the form of red bass. We continued to drift the shallows and consistently were catching red bass and bluefin trevally with a couple of good sized trout coming up for a sniff as well as a few decent Maori wrasse which we just couldn’t stay attached to. We called it a day a little earlier and the guys are currently chilling on the back deck with an ice cold beer in hand….all in a day’s fishing.
Tim: My guys were broken after yesterday and wanted an easy day’s fishing, so we ventured off into the shallows with the light tackle and had a ball. There were packs of Red Bass everywhere, Blue Fin trevally, Coral Cod, Sweetlips, Boar fish, trout and to a lesser extent Maori Wrasse. Another surprise catch was a big trigger fish. We drifted off the shallows into the deeper water and a small surface skipping lure got smashed by a 30kg GT and fortunately ran off into the deep and we ended up landing it after an epic fight on the light gear. A quick lunch and then a few more fish. The guys were tired by this stage and decided an early afternoon session on the top deck with cold beers was the go.
Saltaire: Today’s conditions were great this morning. Deep purple water and fairly minor wind considering what we have had to deal with in the last few weeks. We started the morning jigging and had some great action. Big reefies were smashing jigs and plastics every few drops. Red bass, chinaman, trout, emperor and some major bust offs. We had a few guys dragged along the gunnels trying to stop some big ooglies. We had a few encounters with big blue face today. We landed 2 big maori wrasse one of about 40kg and another of about 30kg. These big blue blubber lipped fish are one of the coolest looking things in the ocean when they get to this size. We kept on jigging until the tide turned and the action slowed so it was marlin time. Unfortunately the baits did not raise one today, mother nature better stop being so difficult and throw a few big unicorn fish our way or we may have to have words with her.
