Hi all!

I will make the long journey from Sweden to New Zealand in a couple of months time, and spend about three weeks there doing ...useful things, hopefully :-)

Obviously I will have to go fishing at least once or twice during such a trip, and thus I am looking for the perfect place(s) to go. I have been looking at something like five million Fishing Charter Guide's web pages, but it's really hard to tell them all apart; the brain is overloaded with fishing information and I just find myself drooling by the screen for hours.

So, I thought I'd try this forum for some assistance!

I think my ideal fishing trip would be a single day trip, and I'd rather catch a few small something's than one immense nothing. And I would really like to find some place where you could have the catch prepared into a tasty meal afterwards, while having a beer and trying to convince my girlfriend that we really need to fish some more another day :-)

So, if any of you nice people are going "I know just the place", I'd really appreciate your assistance. Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards / Martin

Martin, if your round the top of the South Island at all and you have time then we would be more than willing to take you out for a days fishing round these parts........... 

Dont think we could quite match old moohando's efforts there, but we deal in smaller species down this way, but jsut as much fun.........

well guys since everyone is keen to help out why dont we all get together and work on a full days fishing for Martin and co starting from say Halfmoon bay around Rangi down the back of Waiheke across to coro catching fish at different locations (best known hot spots) then shoot them across to Coro for a fish with Moohand and a barbie at Barries to end the day?????

Jesus there's some good offers there.....

Martin just make sure you bring along some of your girlfriends pals along I can see the motivation of these boys!.

Last Time I was in Stockholm, I was too young to enjoy it to it full potential.

Making up for that here in NZ though.

Hi again.

Thanks for all the feedback! :-)

We will be arriving in Auckland at the very end of November, and will be spending the first days of our "New Zealand tour" there. (Recovering from jet lag no doubt.)

Giving it some thought, it would probably be wise of me to try and schedule some fishing right then and there, since I don't really know where we will go from there... We don't really have a travel plan, we hope to be able to just plan ahead a couple of days at a time during the three weeks we have in NZ. (Is that stupid by the way? Will we find ourselves sleeping on the doorstep of over-crowded hostels and BnB:s?)

Anyway, a day of fishing starting (and ending) in Auckland on the 1:st or 2:nd of December sounds like music to my ears. Add a few dolphins to amuse Charlotte (the Boss), and someone who knows how to cook a meal from the catch (if any) once we're back on dry land - and I will probably spend the rest of the time in NZ with a silly smile regardless of what else happens.

You guys are aware of my secret agenda now, to get more fishing done on a later occasion ;-), but since I won't really know when and where we will be going after Auckland I guess I'll just have to wait and see if further options show up... The Coromandel seems really cool, the Marlborough area screams "FISH" when you look at the map, and Half Moon Bay -being as far as you get- has a certain ring to it... (Which ever end of the lake your boat is, you will always go to the other end to catch fish - right?) Some trout in Lake Taupo probably wouldn't hurt either... OH, so many places to fish, so little time!

As for girlfriend's pals I am afraid I intend to travel with a relatively light luggage, thus I do not plan on bringing any extra girls on this particular journey. They would just distract us all from the fishing anyway! :-)

So, narrowing it down to Auckland the first few days of December, where is the fishing action? :-) Oh, and the romantic, perhaps candle lit, eating-the-catch action of course? ;-)

Thanks again / Martin

Martin, you have it made! Think I'll tag along if you don't mind

The guys on here are about to blow your mind, so long as the weather plays ball.

December is a good time to be here, the workforce are still hard at it, & the tourists are at home thinking Xmas stuff.

You shouldn't have too much problem finding accommodation, & travel will be ok.

Still think you should bring some excess luggage though, that would seal the deal

ok bed list, have beds Kapiti coast thats Wellington the Capital not Auckland aka jafaland the wannabe capital ...who else?????

Pst on the excess luggage...60yr cognac is always a good idea

From my brief visit to NZ early this year, I would definitely agree with Fishb8.  Paihia and Russell in the Bay of Islands are a great place to visit.. Many kiwis think they are a bit touristy, but it's a beautiful part of NZ, tourism means it's easy to get to and there are reasonable amenities, accomodations etc.  Plus of course the fishing is pretty good.  That Captain Bucko sure knows his snapper.  Steve Butler on Earl Grey is another name you'll hear, he's known for kingfish. 

Put it this way, if you fish inshore with anyone who knows what he's doing, you are pretty much guaranteed to catch something sporty, whether it's the old faithful NZ snapper, kingfish or even the humble kahawai, which is a pretty damn cool fish on light tackle like you'd use for trout spinning.  I don't know if you fished pollock in Sweden but kahawai are kind of like that, but more sporty, and they jump.  If you're lucky enough to have a good day, you might not ever want to come back to Sweden!

cheers - dustin

Uncle, I certainly don't mind you tagging along for some fishing. The more the merrier - right? :-)

Hm - it seems like I�m being caught in the middle of some North versus South debate here..? I don�t guite get your points here, but I might have an opinion in the matter in the end of December ;-)
Our rough plan does include both the north and the south island (so we might come across Jo�s regions as well). C�mon, we are tourists... We�re bound to rush past anything interesting in order to reach the most distant parts of the region, snap a few pictures and get moving again. ;-)
If we get back to the Auckland area with any time left I thought that then would be a nice time to check out the far North and work on the tan :-). So, fishb8 & dustin, I appreciate the hints and if time allows I just might try to find captain Bucko before having to get on the plane and head back to cold Sweden...

I realize it might seem ...erhm... stupid to try to cover all of NZ in three weeks time, but hey snapz... It's not as if the employers around here go "sure, stay a couple of months or so - we'll just keep sending your salary anyway..." ;-)

Now as for the important issue, the fishing that is... I need to get this straight. My initial thought was that most of you guys are probably working as guides or something like that, and that I am basically shopping for a fishing trip here. But from Barries remark I gather you might be more like "people who just enjoy going fishing", and you're considering letting me join you on a trip?
The difference, apart from the fact that fishing with friends is always nicer, is that I would most certainly be willing to alter my travel plans in order to go fishing with someone who offers to have me on board as a friendly gesture. I would probably alter my plans to go on an "ordinary" tourist charter fishing trip as well ;-), but it still is a bit different. Did that make any sense at all...?

Best regards / Martin

Well Martin the short of the long of it, is that we are laughing at each other. Aucklanders are always a prime target as the majority that the rest of the kiwis see act like arrogant american tourists with kiwi accents and no tips, the stereotype is arrogant in a hurry and expect everything to be laid on. Unfortunately there are a lot who fit that stereotype. Not everyone does but there are many.

I have heard a woman berate a service station owner because he didnt carry ear plugs for sale so her darlings wouldnt hear the frogs at night while staying in the campground in their motorhome. This same woman and her tribe left a pristine bush spot looking like a privvy.

In the short time we were in Auckland I was teased at work as being the bumpkin, think it was a jealousy thing, as  I have more class and education than the rest of them put together. Even TV dramas tend to use the stereotype of non aucklanders  as stupid slow and uncouth and arkansas hillbilly stereotype.

The guys here know better but its fun bantering and insulting each other.

"like arrogant american tourists with kiwi accents and no tips" :-)) *lol*

Ok, I will stay far away from that debate anyway. I'm sure you're all very nice people! :-)

Like I said earlier, classic tall poppy syndrome towards Aucklanders.

Us lucky ones in the sunny BOP don't need to get into all that. We have it made & we know it

NZ's best kept secret!

All the bullsh!t flows up & down SH1 & that's great

Just ask Barrie, he knows where his heart is!

American Accents with No Tips?

Ok last I looked at the family tree it had some forks in it.

Half American, My Fathers side immigrated to the US from Scotland in the mid 1800's

Half Norwegian, My mother immigrated to the US from Norway in 1964.

Adopted Kiwi, I immigrated here from the US in 2002 cause George W. Bush is an @$$HOLE and my Little Kiwi Wife wanted to spawn the Hellfishlings here..

And I dont pay tips cause you Kiwi's dont like my greenbacks.

As far as I am concerned, I'm a global kinda guy that got jipped on his exotic accent.

Iye Juss Saownd Lyke en AmmeriKan Iye Gess.

The only thing that I don't like about Kiwiland is the Cuzziebro's trying to charge me for breathing their precious Maori Air when I visit Lake Taupo.

Make me wonder how much weed they've been smokin.

By the way Martin, NEW ZEALAND FISHING ROCKS!

Hellfish, that's the first reference to the Taupo air thing I've seen on here.

Glad you bought it up.

Now, I wouldn't mind paying premium price for the so called Tuwharetoa air if they could guarantee it's not second hand!

When I hear this sort of crap, I start thinking that the gravy train, treaty thing is wearing thin & the benefactors feel they have to think up more & more ingenious ways of milking the system. (JMT's)

No Trenta, not tall Poppy, in Aucklanders case its dead weeds!!!!!!

Best thing to ever come out of Auckland is SH1.........

It's not just the air KSi, they're looking at bridges too!

I tell ya, this thing is gathering momentum so fast we'll be spinning soon.

Outback Australia with the Aboriginies is looking good. Mud, dust & meths, yeah!

Charging for the use of air in a specific region...? Hmm.... interesting.

It's cool - isn't it? But in that case I want to be able to charge the owner of that air if it is carried away with the winds and happens to wind up in my flat. I bet a few atoms of that air would show up in my kitchen within a decade or so... Mind you air storage is really costly around here! :-)

Yeah and how do you sort out ownership when it gets windy and everyone's air moves place? Tell me that!!

I thought that the idea was to charge for the use of air space, like for commercial flying. Not charging to breath it.. Anyway, how the hell can anyone prove an ancient right to an air space, when man didn`t start to use that air space till well into the twentieth century.  Tis crazy indeed.

Bluefox-13, it sounds like you are talking about the uk there mate. Everything you say applys here too.

timbo..the other ethnic race can do anything they like...you porobably didnt hear about the taniwha the lives where the new motor way has gone???

the govt shelled out 30,000 to these muppets to keep the taniwha happy...

air space? wouldnt surprise me at all if they got 100mill for that claim..

sea water too i beleive, shame it changes with every tide

It's interesting... It seems to be the same types of issues and feelings wherever you go. We have them here too; a minority group claims to own some land, someone else thinks it's theirs, and the carousel keeps spinning...

I think it's important to remember though, that whenever the most extreme suggestions or claims from either side appears, it's generally doesn't represent the common view of that group. So don't let some extremist's idea lure you into having bad thoughts about the group of people in general...

This opic has taken an interesting turn. Although *erhm* I still don't know when and where to go fishing! :-)

funny that, Willie Jackson once said something to me along those lines...the red-necks of all colours are the only ones who appeal to the media.

A politician also said to me last year on the foreshore issue that the media only see the worst of it, not the best of it and not the truth of it.

Come on guys, get it back on topic....poor ole Martin dont know if he`s going, coming or already been.

Take the man fishing for gods sake!!

Martin, I'll be happy to organise a days inshore fishing 1 hour North of
Auckland. Targeting Snapper/Trevelly etc around Kawau Island (East Coast) in a small boat.  May be weather (wind) dependant but scenery and fishing can be good. Room for two if your lady fishes or just enjoys being on the water. Let us know your dates and I'll PM contact details. If you are in Auckland can probably give a ride there and back.

If I am not mistaken Lethal offered to organise something that sounded pretty damned good, so take him up on it.

Cheers, F.T.

F.T.

Thank you for your reply and your offer. If the weather is suitable and we manage to find the time for it, I would be glad to go. However, you made me go back and read Lethal's post again...

Regarding Lethal's offer: Man - am I thick!? Ok, my English isn't all that good, and my knowledge in the NZ geography isn't too good either. I read the post from Lethal and thought... "Starting at Half Moon Bay... Hmm... *check map* that'll be down south on Stewart Island. Wonder if I'll ever get that far south. Across to Coro... I wonder what Coro is... No idea. Anyway... A barbie at Barries... Huh?... Barbie, that's those little dolls... uhm, no, it must be some sort of local drink of something... A barbie at barries must be some sort of local drink at some local pub... I'm lost, I wonder if I am supposed to understand this..."

Now as I was having a shower and trying to forget a couple of really miserable days at my new job, I suddenly realized that a "barbie" obviously is a barbeque. And the name barrie is familiar from the forum... And hey, "coro" as in "Coromandels" and "moohand" would be "Moohando" also from this forum. Wow, gee, I'm actually quite clever! :-)

Now, I still don't get the half moon bay part (well, I suppose there's more than one Half Moon Bay), but i DO realize that Lethal was actually suggesting a seriously remarkable trip!

I'm all ears!! Sorry it took me a week to sort the information out! And thanks for the hint, F.T.

If the offer still stands, I will obviously be more than happy to tag along. I'm guessing the departure would be from somewhere in the Auckland area? And I gathered that weekends are better suited than weekdays? The best possible date for me in that case would probably be the 18:th of december. We will be heading back to Sweden on the 20:th, so we should be near Auckland that weekend... The other option is that weekend 4-5:th of december. In the original plan we have already left Auckland by then, but I would defintely try to alter those plans if it fits you better.

I probably need the "explaining for a moron"-version of how the trip you had in mind would actually look. Where would we start, and where would we wind up etc...

...barbie at Barries... *lol* It's not easy being a dumb foreigner ;-)

god morgon,

Take Lethal's offer Martin - you probably wont find a more experienced fishermen in New Zealand. The Halfmoon Bay that he refers to is in Auckland.

Coro = Coromandel Penninsula (2 hours from Auckland)

Barbies = outdoor cooking (steak, fish etc) on a hot plate usually accompanied with many cold beers.

Look forward to meeting you.

adj�

Martin,

Your english is pretty damned sharp. Mid week is OK with a bit of notice. Otherwise that weekend is looking OK for a day for me. If you seriously want to catch fish explore Lethal's proposal as it sounds a very fishy and entertaining plan based around the Auckland area. Let me know how your planning goes. What ever, you should come into Swashbucklers (pub and seafood restuarant) for a beer. Cheers, F.T.