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The catch. Upon hooking a squid and bringing it to the surface, be aware that they squirt ink out through a vent between their tentacles, so make sure you point it at your mate. If that’s not an option, lift it just clear of the water and allow it to squirt, before smoothly lifting it onto land.
A simple and versatile way to catch snapper year-round in shallower water (less than 20m) is casting and retrieving soft-baits. Standard practice involves casting ahead of your drift direction, letting the soft-bait sink to the bottom (while staying alert for bites), then slowly retrieving it with twitching rod lifts and drops. Stray-lining.
Daytime tactics. Although snapper tend to stay a little deeper through the summer months to avoid predatory attention, they can still be caught through the day if an area is selected where you wade out as far as possible, then get your bait out the back and as deep as possible. Spurs and spits that lead out into the sea provide good ...
It was close but we were able to catch more fish each day and so had a better selection to weigh in. We fished open ocean rocks where the water was fairly shallow. Kahawai responded well to our skipjack and pilchard berley and one of us at least would be hooked up all day long. The reason we could catch more fish was simple. Once hooked, the ...
A grass bank (often overgrown) is the perfect vantage point to stalk and cast at flounder. To be clear, this style is 100% sight fishing – spot the flounder in the water, get into a casting position, cast your soft-bait within range of the fish, slowly retrieve and you should be rewarded. By slowly retrieve, I mean ultra-slow.
Trout and salmon, and big ones, with the former getting to gigantic sizes. Expect to catch 15lb trout and if you’re lucky, a true dream fish over 20lb – and if you’re really, really lucky, a behemoth of over 30 pounds. The size range doesn’t stop there: 40lb trout have been landed in the canals – these are freakishly big fish!
I primarily employ softbaits for NZ flounder. A range of jigheads can be used from 0.8g-5g, as long the hooks are small. A 3g jighead with #4 hook is my most used jighead – if there are many holes or the bottom is very soft, heavier jigheads can sink into the mud. Shrimp-based softbaits, such as Berkley PowerBait 1”/2cm Power Nymph Pearl ...
Apparently, Matt and his film crew had to complete filming a shoot they’d done earlier this summer, when they’d caught and released a 350kg blue marlin for their guest angler, Chris Sinclair, on his first-ever day spent game fishing. The whole crew had become so caught up in the moment, they began celebrations instead of completing the filming.
Baits, rigs and techniques. There’s no incorrect rig or trace set-up to target blue moki, as most of your terminal tackle set-ups (i.e. pulley, dropper and running rigs) will catch them. Moki are predominantly found feeding just behind the shore break, meaning a short cast of 10 to 20 metres from your beach spike is all that’s required.
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