got to one of my hot large snapper catching areas at about seven am monday morning.started putting out a nice berley trail on the last part of the  incoming tide as son as the tide stopped berleyed 20kgs of blue machrels and pilchards. as soon as the tide just started to move casted a nice medium sized flying fish out as bait.this got nailed after four minutes by a large hog  red result fought that fish for five minutes on 6kg only to loose it due to hooks coming out o well you get that. second bait i throw out once again a flyer gets taken on 6kg rig. result a nice 10 plus kg fish landed. bite only lasted for first hour and a half of the out going tide which happens about ninety percent of the on horn we managed plenty of quality fish in the  6 to 7 kg range which we released also. a nice day had by all on the boat.

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Welcome back Cod,

Your the big snapper ace mate, keep the report comming.

Wefaknis

should have waited till the Furuno Cod........ nice fish mate.... i need to get back out there again.......

hey eric you and me both no how  to  target  these fish and catch them consistantly.its time on the water. you cant catch them at home.patience no youre area youre fishing.fish different tides sooner or later you will get results.think like a fish. by the way this is the 7th fish i have had in the last four months from a area of 500 metres over 10kgs in weight with four over 11.2 kgs with lots of 5 to 8kg fish released. 

Ringing my Bell Kerren,

Good on your efforts Cod,see if you can report more often,with all these big fish you have been catching Everywhere!!!

Barrell

Cod is one of the only people I know who has lost count of 20lb reds he has caught. Nice one Justin and best of luck if you decide to have a go at the Furuno.

Justin Justin Justin

You have to think like a fish not drink like a fish. Nice one dude!

HEHEHEHE, Tobes got a sh*t loads of those too

But has nothing on the Pig!!!!!!

 Those are awesome results for a 500 m patch.  

 Kahawai 

hey kerren i am humble  also and are willing to share my knowledge on this and other fishing .thats why i  am writing on this site i dont have any thing to prove. having spent 10 years in the commerial fishing industry and the rest in the tackle retail market i think i  have plenty to offer.

That is really awesome Cod and to be appluaded.....that is afterall exactly why this place exsists.

Maybe its not what you say but how you are saying it mate?.....maybe just the abiguity of this medium where things can be taken in the wrong light....

anyhoo.....enuff of this....the class eagerly awaits your tutelage!

What sort of commercial fishing where you involved with?

not at all Bender.....I was being genuine just incase I have been read incorrectly!

Learning is what it is all about!

kerren my backgrond in commerial has been in tuna longlining both north and south island from northern and southern bluefin to bigeye in the nothern waters to catching a lot of large swords in the north and west coast of the south island hapuka in northern waters ie north cape to the kings  snapper longlining in the hauraki gulf and in northland plus time spent in the south island orange roughy fishing bythe way me and a small group of mates are going to try and catch some southern bluefin in late june early jul;y off the area of east cape to  tolaga bay aboard my mates boat pursuit going to the ranfurly banks tomorrow to catch some yellowfin which have been biting very well in the last couple of weeks off the nothern edge of the bank area may get to troll off the awatere ridge which is north of the bank for a bigeye or maybe a blue put a report in early next week..

hey kerren lots of bigeyes to 100plus. yellowfin to90kgs southerns to140plus. northerns to250kgs lost one on the gear one day over 800 to 900 crimp pulled. that same day two giants of 820 and 850plus were caught in the area off tolaga bay wide. lots of huge swords 200 to 400kgs the biggest swords on average are on the west coast of the south island none under 200kgs the problem with them which is good is that the big boys smash the gear to bits all that needs to happen to stop the by catch of them is to ban bloody light sticks and no fishing for them on the full moon period youre going to screw the fishery with 500light sticks set on each line shallow over that period you dont use or need 500sticks a set to catch tuna the guys doing this are not tuna fisherman..

Maybe its not what you say but how you are saying it mate?.....maybe just the abiguity of this medium where things can be taken in the wrong light...

cod, i took the tone of your comments to be..'im better than everyone else'...as this is all writing and im obviously wrong, apologies, i think punctuation is the difference between sounding genuine or sarcastic.(and maybe a smilie face)

Your obviously a very experienced fisho and i look foward to hearing any tips or methods you wanna share....

cheers big ears

Cod,Im the same as Tobes,i miss read your comments the first time,tell us & show us what your made of mate,Please.

Huberley sorry

Barrell

heres a few pics of fish Justin has caught fishing with me.......... he sure can catch fish.......

choice yous guys, 15lber plus fur sure?

Just to re-emphasise what Lethal has said about dropping in on Justin. When I arrived in NZ seven years ago, I knew nothing about the way you do your fishing in this country (both straylining and berleying were not practised where I come from).  I would spend many a lunch hour in a retail outlet in Newmarket where Justin and another great fisho, Pat Langevad, now of Auckland Marine then worked. Justin and Pat were both always willing to help and offer their advice, no matter how dumb the question may have been.  Advice like theirs, offered with humility and based on experience, is what makes you want to go back to the places they are at, time after time. We are indeed fortunate to have the likes of these guys sharing freely on this forum.

Cheers

Keith