Fresh Coromandel Fishing Reports

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!

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...

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